New York’s Sixth: a new blog about Jersey City and Hoboken, a.k.a. New York City’s “sixth borough” (a.k.a. the place where I will soon no longer be living):

Downtown Jersey City and Hoboken in recent years has seen a rise in popularity as New York City realestate prices skyrocket. With subway access via the Port Authority’s PATH trains putting Manhattan just minutes away– literally closer than Brooklyn or even Harlem– New York’s unofficial Sixth Borough is coming into its own.

New York’s Sixth is dedicated to filling the void that many New York blogs have left vacant.

And I’m amused by this New York City area map created by the blog’s author (particulary Delta Kappa Phi Epsilon, or Hoboken).

Best Footnote Ever

United States Court of Appeals
For the Seventh Circuit
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Nos. 04-2032, 04-2293 & 04-2309
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant,
v.
DARRON J. MURPHY, SR.,
Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee,
and
JENNIFER BAKER,
Defendant, Cross-Appellee.
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Appeals from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Illinois.
No. 03 CR 30137—G. Patrick Murphy, Chief Judge.
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ARGUED JANUARY 13, 2005—DECIDED MAY 4, 2005

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On the evening of May 29, 2003, Hayden was smoking crack with three other folks at a trailer park home on Chain of Rocks Road in Granite City, Illinois. Murphy, Sr., who had sold drugs to Hayden several years earlier, showed up later that night. He was friendly at first, but he soon called Hayden a “snitch bitch ho”¹ and hit her in the head with the back of his hand….

[snip]

¹ The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch “hoe.” A “hoe,” of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Hayden’s response. We have taken the liberty of changing “hoe” to “ho,” a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps “You doin’ ho activities with ho tendencies.”

My mouth is watering.

The New Yorker, the weekly magazine that started as “a hectic book of gossip, cartoons and facetiae,” as Louis Menand once wrote, and has evolved into a citadel of narrative nonfiction and investigative reporting, will publish its entire 80-year archives on searchable computer discs this fall.

The collection, titled “The Complete New Yorker,” will consist of eight DVD’s containing high-resolution digital images of every page of the 4,109 issues of the magazine from February 1925 through the 80th anniversary issue, published last February. Included on the discs will be “every cover, every piece of writing, every drawing, listing, newsbreak, poem and advertisement,” David Remnick, editor of the magazine, has written in an introduction to the collection.

The collection, which will also include a 123-page book containing Mr. Remnick’s essay, a New Yorker timeline and highlights of selected pages from the magazine, is being published by the magazine and will be distributed to stores by Random House. It will have a cover price of $100, although it is likely to be sold in many bookstores and online for considerably less. [Amazon.com will sell it for $63.] The magazine also plans to issue annual updates to the disc collection, and it expects a first printing of 200,000 copies.

I am so getting this.