Who Killed The Greenpoint Food Market? “A Manhattan Publication” Did . . .

The Red Hook Ballfields treatment comes to Greenpoint:

The organizer of the Greenpoint Food Market has decided to fold her 10-month-old indie eats bazaar in the face of a threat from city health officials to slap summonses on her vendors because they lack commercial food handling permits.

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Health inspectors have not officially visited the market and organizers were not aware of any complaints made about food-borne illness. But Kim believed that inspectors would visit the June market after the gathering received increased attention from the neighborhood media, including the New York Times, a Manhattan publication.

Even During An Eight-Game Home Winning Streak You Need To Somehow Keep Fans Engaged

I don’t think they need to do this at Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park or even Citizens Bank Ballpark:

More than 400 Mets fans set the Guinness World Record for most people crocheting simultaneously at Citi Field Saturday.

“Ladies, gentlemen, boys, girls, get your hooks ready!” cheered “Inside Edition” host and longtime crafter Deborah Norville, who has her own line of yarn. “Three, two, one, let’s crochet!”

Everyone cheered and crocheted away before the Amazin’s took on the Marlins as folks from Guinness observed.

Bring on the between-inning three-legged races!

Ann Arbor, Madison, College Station, Chapel Hill, Boulder — Or Even Lawrence, KS! — Just With Taller Buildings

Fewer and fewer adults can live in Manhattan without enrolling at NYU, so you might as well just own it:

Sixteen teams of two participated at Still bar on Third Avenue at East 17th Street. In the game, players toss pingpong balls into cups — usually filled with beer, but last night with water — on their opponents’ side of the table. When a team sinks a shot in every cup, it wins.

Leadership In These Tough Economic Times

Although anyone could have just sat back and blamed Albany, but no matter:

An irate Mayor Michael Bloomberg charged Thursday that the circus in Albany — and the inability of state lawmakers to pass a budget — forced him to cut city services to the bone in a bloodletting that will give 11,000 city workers their walking papers.

Say Something, See Something In The Daily News About What You Said

The great thing about free speech is that you can be held accountable for stuff you had no connection with later on:

A Queens Islamic group that warned the creators of “South Park” of retaliation for lampooning the Prophet Muhammed denied involvement Sunday in the Times Square bomb plot.

Younus Abdullah Muhammed, who runs the Web site RevolutionMuslim.com, said he was in Times Square at the time the car bomb was discovered, but he insisted he was not involved in the botched bombing.

“What do you think, I commanded somebody to blow up a building in the middle of Times Square?” a testy Muhammed told the Daily News.

NYPD detectives are looking into whether the attempted bombing is linked to a warning issued last month by the Revolution Muslim group against the Comedy Central animators.