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The Daily News, like most of the media, has gone completely overboard on the Imus/ Rutgers basketball story.

Today in the News alone, there were six pieces: news stories on both the press conference and the advertising angle; columns by Mike Lupica, Errol Lewis, and Filip Bondy; and an editorial!

(The Times clocked in with four separate items, while the Post had three).

Covering the players' response, the News employed four reporters, whereas Rutgers Daily Targum used just one.  read more »

Comparatively, there was the Rutgers Medium's (typically un-PC) take on the matter, here.

--Michael Calderone

Now that March Madness is over—by this I mean both the NCAA college-basketball tournament and  read more »

• Yonkers is the new Brooklyn! Brit architect Will Alsop will make his U.S. debut by transforming an 80,000-square-foot power plant there into a $250 million Hudson River "residential complex featuring a museum, restaurant, and park." [Arch. Record News]
• Speaking of Brooklyn: The Department of Transportaiton has ideas to make the nightmarish Grand Army Plaza [above] slightly less nightmarish. In a nutshell: less cars; more bikes. [Streetsblog]
• Celebrity designer (and Beverly Boulevard man) Richard Tyler has put his 9,200-square-foot Washington Street townhouse on the market for $15.9 million. Curbed admits to drooling over the place. [The Real Estalker]
• The Empire State building is getting feverishly scarlet tonight to celebrate the first-ever appearance of the Rutgers' women's basketball team in the NCAA National Championship Game. Observer real-estate reporter John Koblin, Rutgers '05, says: "Upstream red team, red team upstream, rah rah Rutgers rah!" [Scarlet Knights]
• Why have name-brand architects become such superstars? The AIA's Center for Architecture is hosting a "BRANDISM" panel to "take a hard look at the superstar architect's signature--both literally and stylistically." Watch your back, Zaha! The release is after the jump. [PR] - Max Abelson  read more »
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Amid all the complaints from community boards about getting overwhelmed by rampant development that they cannot keep track of, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stronger hit upon one solution: Get students to do it!

This fall, the Beep recruited 13 graduate students in urban planning programs at Hunter, Columbia, Rutgers, New York University and the New School to advise community boards on specific projects. The students, working a minimum of 15 hours a week, will receive stipends of $2,500 a semester, which should give them a taste of the salaries of real-life urban planners.

-Matthew Schuerman

Wansoo Im is an adjunct professor of urban planning at Rutgers University. He has a twenty-two-year-old assistant, who took Professor Im’s Geographic Information Systems course. And now, they're taking on New York together.

The two are mapping the city's bathrooms.

The New Yorker - Riva Froymovich