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www.metro.us | twitter.com/MetroNewYork| facebook.com/MetroNewYorkNEW YORK Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Suspected overdose at Columbia U. Jessica Fingers, 21, died at the school Sunday. PAGE 04
How to escape from North Korea Journalist discusses one man’s bold move .PAGE 11
Welcome to daredevil tourism Ever dreamed of having sex on a bridge? PAGE 18
A LYRICAL SHOUT OUT to the city’s rap roots
PAGE 02
Street artist Jay Shells is placing lyric street signs at locations referenced in hip-hop songs as part of his Rap Quotes project. / ANIMALNEWYORK.COM
Mets ring in 2013 season with a win Across town, the Y ankees are blown out by Boston. PAGE 20
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1NEWS
Bronx Zoo
‘Pattycake’ dies at 40 Pattycake, the first gorilla born in New York City, died at 40 years old at the Bronx Zoo on Sunday, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced.
She was suffering from chronic cardiac problems, according to the announcement.
Pattycake was born on Sept. 3, 1972, at the Central Park Zoo, according to The As-sociated Press.
She lived there with her parents Kongo and Lulu before moving to the Bronx Zoo in 1983. LAURA SHIN
House fi re
Eleven injured in Queens fi re Eleven people were injured, four of them critically, when a fire tore through a two-family house in Queens early Monday morning.
Those who were critically hurt include a 3-year-old, a 14-year-old and two parents, ABC News reports. They were trapped in their bedrooms and were rescued by fire-fighters through win-dows. Most injuries are smoke-related. LAURA SHIN
Investigation
Driver shot in face, dies after car crash
Police are investi-gating after a man driving a minivan was shot in the face in Queens early Monday morning.
Cops responded to a 911 call of a vehicle crash at approximate-ly 12:47 a.m. They dis-covered Carlos Nunez, 37, driving near Irving Avenue after he struck five cars.
It was determined that he had a gunshot wound to his face, cops said. He was pronounced dead on arrival . DANIELLE TCHOLAKIAN
Outer Space. Space station astronaut captures NYC at night NASA released an amaz-ing image of New York City that its astronauts captured from outer space.
According to the space agency, a mem-ber of Expedition 35 aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of the city’s metropolitan area March
23. The space station orbits the Earth, and the crew member was able to capture the 400-milli-meter image at night.
The photo from the space station shows Manhattan glowing nearly completely amber, ringed by New Jersey, Brooklyn and Queens. ALISON BOWEN A view of New York City from outer space. / NASA
Quoted
We can’t do much to change what
happened. I wish we could. But we’re trying to
take the tragedies away from their mind for a little
bit.”
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April Fools’
Nabbing may have
been prank
A law enforcement source confi rmed
the NYPD suspects a reported abduction in
Washington Heights on Friday was a “prank.” Police received a call
from a man claiming to be one of the indi-
viduals involved in the kidnapping. Cops say he told them there was no kidnapping; they were playing a practical joke for a friend’s birthday.
The woman in the video was the friend’s girlfriend, cops said.
No charges have been pressed.
Jay Shells hangs one of his “Rap Quotes” signs. / ANIMALNEWYORK.COM
New York City is the cen-ter of the rap universe. Jay-Z, Nas, Run DMC, No-torious BIG, the Beastie Boys and many more all hail from the Big Apple, so it’s not surprising that the streets of the city come alive in their mu-sic.
Street artist Jay Shells
is plotting the exact lo-cations mentioned in those songs in his latest project, entitled “Rap Quotes.”
Shells came up with a list of hip-hop song lyr-ics that mention specific places in New York City. He created signs with the lyrics and placed them in the exact locations men-tioned.
A graphic designer by profession, Shells cre-ated 30 signs on his own dime.
“Doing this was my way of contributing to the culture that I love so
much,” he said. Many signs, including
quotes from the likes of Mos Def, GZA and Kanye West, have disappeared.
“I knew people were going to steal them,” Shells said. “Hopefully this is just a blueprint for something more per-manent.”
The next time, Shells
plans to place the signs in harder-to-reach spots in hopes they won’t be stolen again.
You can reach out to him with your sug-gestions on Twitter at @TheRapQuotes.
NYC’s rap legacy, block by block
Hip-hop fan
“I’ve been listening to this music my whole life. I’m a visual artist, not a musician, so this is my contribution.” Jay Shells
Culture. Jay Shells is setting out to denote landmark references in classic NYC rap songs.
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Whole Foods plans rooftop hothouse
The Gowanus Whole Foods will install a greenhouse on top of the store. The company announced Gotham Greens will run the greenhouse, which will be the nation’s first commer-cial-scale greenhouse farm within a grocery store. ALISON BOWEN
Traffi c safety
City speed cameras may be on the way
Jeffrey Klein, a Bronx Democrat, will pick up the speed camera bill, according to the Daily News, and hopes to pass it by June. The bill would install 20 speed cameras in school zones. ALISON BOWEN
New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan said this weekend that the Catho-lic Church should be more welcoming of gays.
Dolan appeared on ABC’s “This Week” as well as “Face the Nation” on CBS, speaking about the church’s outreach to gays and lesbians.
He maintained the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
But on “This Week”
he told George Stepha-nopoulos, “We’ve got to do better to see that our defense of marriage is
not reduced to an attack on gay people.”
He added, “We haven’t been too good at that.”
On Sunday, Dolan oversaw Easter mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown, where he said the church was under-going “renewal, repair, resurrection.”
Dolan was recently in Rome to help choose the new pope. After Pope Francis was appointed, he said the selection “marks a great milestone in our church.”
In 2011, Dolan pushed against New York legisla-tors’ decision to legalize gay marriage.
Equality. He said the church needs to do better at reaching out to the gay community .
Cardinal Dolan: Church should welcome gays
Cardinal Timothy Dolan MIKE SEGAR, GETTY IMAGES
Wild horses stampede into Grand Central A performer dons a horse costume as part of artist Nick Cave’s Heard of Horses installation March 30 in Grand Central Terminal. / MIKE COPPOLA, GETTY IMAGES
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Our future in food. It’s tickets for chemical-laden cleaners eco-fning solutions. As if you haven’t heard, Americans love food.
By Chris LaubachREPORTER
Grocery store shelves burst at the seams with up-wards of 10,000 new food and beverage products to choose from each year. No wonder we’re stressed out. Even though many of those products won’t make it past their fi rst year, some of them will make the most of Amer-ica’s fi ckle eating habits and even change are consump-tion habits. Remember when
bottled water was a frou-frou luxury? Plus, people want to achieve a healthy nutritional balance that allows them to live longer and feel better and they often look to food for that. With many people shun-ning their traditional doctors’ visits and instead self-medi-cating with nutrition-related remedies, it goes to follow that the food choices we make matter more. Extreme dieters aside, a growing number of people
Green cleaners clean up.
By Ryan BloeckerREPORTER
Cabinets and closets in American households might currently contain more than 10 gallons worth of harmful chemicals, but with harmful chemicals getting a bad rap all around, experts say this number will likely decrease
each year. Although they’re disguised by names like formalde-hyde, phenol, hydrochloride acid, perchlorethylene and petroleum distillates, toxic chemicals lurk in everything from the fragrances of air fresheners to carpet clean-ers; dishwasher detergents to furniture polish. There’s plenty of clear evidence that these harsh chemicals pose a health danger, and there are other chemicals out there that have never even been.
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Police have identified the young woman found dead in a Columbia dorm room Sunday morning as Jessica Fingers, a Columbia stu-dent and star athlete.
Fingers was on medi-cal leave from school but planning to return in the fall, according to her fa-ther, Robert Bellamy.
“She was a vibrant, happy person,” Bellamy said. “She was the type of
person that you’d want to be around.”
The medical examiner reported that Fingers had brain swelling consistent with a Methadone over-dose, and mixing alcohol with Xanax. The ME did not find physical trauma or signs of foul play, and authorities believe that pending a toxicology re-port, the death will be ruled an overdose.
“She just made a mis-take, and it killed her,” Bellamy said.
“We all make poor choices in our lives, but most of the time we don’t die from them.”
Bellamy said his daugh-ter had moved back to the city three months ago to work in a restaurant. He said she wanted to be a chef.
“She was almost a
School tragedy.
Fingers, 21, was found dead on Sunday morning.
Overdose suspected in Columbia death
Background
Jessica Fingers grew up in Monticello, N.Y.
• She won many compe-
titions as a runner in
high school.
• She received a scholar-
ship to Columbia
University based on
academics.
• Her father said she
wanted to be a chef.
Jessica Fingers, a Columbia University student, died at the school over the weekend. / FACEBOOK
professional,” Bellamy re-counted.
Her father also ex-pressed pride in Fingers academically, saying she was “brilliant and fo-cused.”
“She was just an in-credible daughter,” he added.
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Aiming high
Octogenarian Japanese climber aims for Everest An 80-year-old Japanese mountain climber who has had heart surgery four times is heading to Mount Everest to try for a third ascent of the
world’s highest peak and will become the oldest person to reach the top if he succeeds.
Yuichiro Miura climbed to the summit of the 29,035-foot mountain in 2003 and 2008.
He skied down Everest from an altitude of 26,246 feet in 1970. REUTERS
Quoted
“If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the sum-mit of your dream” Yuichiro Miura
North Korea says the re-gion is on the brink of a nuclear war in the wake of United Nations sanctions imposed for its February nuclear test and a series of joint U.S. and South Kore-an military drills that have
included a rare U.S. show of aerial power.
The North, whose econ-omy is smaller than it was 20 years ago, appeared to move yesterday to address-ing its pressing need for investment by appointing a reformer to the country’s ceremonial prime min-ister’s job, although the move mostly cemented a power grab by the ruling Kim clan.
North Korea had said on Saturday it was enter-ing a “state of war” with South Korea in response to what it termed the “hos-
tile” military drills being staged in the South. But there have been no signs of unusual activity in the North’s military to suggest an imminent aggression, a South Korean defense min-istry official said last week.
“If there is any provo-cation against South Korea and its people, there should be a strong response in initial com-bat without any political considerations,” President Park Geun-hye told the de-fense minister and senior officials at a meeting yes-terday. REUTERS
Crisis. Tensions ratcheted higher on the peninsula amid rhetoric from Pyongyang and the US fi ghter planes.
S. Korea vows fast response to N. Korea
South Korean K-1 tanks move over a temporary bridge during a river-crossing military drill in Hwacheon near the border with North Korea yesterday. / GETTY IMAGES
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American Airlines and online travel agency Orbitz Worldwide Inc., which have been locked in a years-long dispute over travel distribution costs and methods, yesterday said they have reached an agreement resolving the litigation between them. The companies declined to comment on details of the settle-ment, which must be reviewed and approved by the U.S. bankruptcy court presiding over American parent AMR Corporation’s Chapter 11 case. American had sued Orbitz in April 2011, saying the online agency and airfare data pro-vider Travelport, which owns a 48 percent share in Orbitz, made American’s fares appear higher than they were. REUTERS
Agreement. They have been in a dispute over travel distribution costs.
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Ticket cost
Supreme Court will not hear airline appeal over ad rule The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to weigh a federal govern-ment rule that requires airlines to advertise the full cost of tickets.
Allegiant Travel, Southwest Airlines and Spirit Airlines had all challenged the Department of Trans-portation’s regulation, which prohibits airlines from leaving taxes and government fees out of their advertised rates. REUTERS
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With smartphone and tablet users getting younger, new apps can help parents monitor and control their children’s use of the Internet.
A Pew Research Center study shows that more than one-third of American teenagers own a smartphone, up from more than a fifth in 2011.
For nearly half of these users, the phone is their main way of getting online, making it difficult for parents to supervise their behavior.
“When you have a smartphone, you basi-
cally have the Internet in your pocket wherever you are — away from your parents’ eyes,” said Anooj Shah, a partner in the Toronto-based com-pany Kytephone, which develops apps. REUTERS
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Prosecutors in Colo-rado will seek the death penalty for accused movie theater gunman James Holmes in the 2012 slaying of 12 people during a showing of the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises,” the lead prosecutor said in court yesterday
Holmes, a 25-year-old former graduate student of neuroscience,
is accused of opening fire inside a suburban Denver multiplex during a midnight screening of the movie last July in a rampage that ranked as one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States.
Holmes is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in the shooting spree. REUTERS
Shooting. Prosecutors seek death penalty for James Holmes
The Texas arm of the Aryan Brotherhood is described as a gang responsible for murders, arson, assault and other crimes. / YOUTUBE
White supremacist suspected in killings
Governor Rick Perry yester-day raised concern about the safety of Texas law enforcement officials as investigators searched for possible links between the killings of two Kaufman County prosecutors just two months apart.
Kaufman County Dis-trict Attorney Mike McLel-land and his wife, Cynthia, were discovered with fatal gunshot wounds at their home near Forney, Texas, on Saturday. McLelland had vowed to capture those who killed one of his assis-tants, Mark Hasse, on Jan. 31.
“I suggest everyone should be careful about what goes on, whether
they’re public officials or otherwise,” Perry told re-porters in the state capital, Austin. “This I think is a clear concern to individu-als who are in public life, particularly those who deal with some very mean and vicious individuals, wheth-er they’re white supremacy groups or whether they’re the drug cartels that we have.”
The FBI, the Texas Rang-ers and other law enforce-ment groups were investi-gating the two homicides, Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes said.
When Hasse was killed, speculation immediately centered on the prison-based Aryan Brotherhood of Texas because that same day the U.S. Justice Depart-ment released a statement saying the Kaufman Coun-ty District Attorney’s Office was involved in a racketeer-ing case against the white supremacist group. REUTERS
Shootings. Texas governor warns offi cials to be safe after two killings .
9/11 statements
Supreme Court declines to hear professor’s appeal The Supreme Court yes-terday declined to hear an appeal by a former university professor who was fired in the aftermath of controver-
sial statements he made about the attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
The University of Colorado at Boulder fired Ward Churchill in 2007 following an investigation that found deficiencies and flaws in his academic work. REUTERS
Quoted
“It seems to me that a scenario may be developing that the district attorney’s offi ce was investigating this gang, or another gang, and they wanted to prevent that investigation.” U.S. Rep. Ted Poe
The Republican and veteran former judge and prosecutor in Texas told CNN his own suspicions centered on the Aryan Brotherhood.
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At arms
UN General Assembly to vote on arms trade treaty The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly is tentatively planning to vote today on a draft treaty to regu-late the $70 billion global trade in con-ventional arms. Iran, Syria and North Korea last week prevented a treaty drafting confer-ence from reaching the required consen-sus. REUTERS
Maduro speaks following a campaign rally. / JUAN BARRETO, AFP, GETTY IMAGES
Ghost of Chavez haunts election
The late president’s re-corded voice booms over rallies for his protege, acting President Nicolas Maduro, who stands under billboards of Chavez’s face and waves to crowds carry-ing signs emblazoned with his name.
Maduro, who is favored to win a snap election trig-gered by Chavez’s death last month, rarely misses a chance to lionize the man many Venezuelans know as El Comandante.
“All of the prophe-cies of Hugo Chavez, the prophet of Christ on this Earth, have come true,” intoned Maduro at a rally celebrating the anniver-sary of the former presi-dent’s release from jail for leading a failed 1992 coup.
“In eternity, or wher-ever you are, you must be proud because you left our people the greatest in-heritance of all: a free and independent nation on the path toward socialism,” he said of the man loved by supporters as a savior but excoriated by adversaries as a dictator.
Seeking to tap into the emotional outpouring fol-lowing his death, Madu-ro’s presidential campaign has put Chavez’s image on nearly everything except
the ballot. From thunder-ing speeches celebrating Chavez’s days as a leftist military conspirator to stories told in a low voice of his final days suffering from cancer, Maduro has made Chavez’s ghost the centerpiece of his cam-paign. REUTERS
By the numbers
Polls show the 50-year-old former bus driver, whom Chavez named his successor, leading his challenger Henrique Capriles by at least 14 percentage points.
Remnant . Weeks after his death, the socialist leader still leads national anthem.
People mourn. / GETTY IMAGES
March was the bloodiest month yet in Syria’s two-year conflict, with more than 6,000 people killed, a third of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday.
The group opposes President Bashar al-Assad but has monitored hu-man rights violations on both sides of a revolt that began as peaceful protests but is now a war
Casualties . Rights group: March worst month in Syria’s war
between Assad and an ar-ray of rebel militias. The group has documented 62,554 dead in the con-flict. REUTERS
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THE WORD
Dorothy Robinson’s take on the world of gossip
DOROTHY ROBINSON@dorothyatmetro
1 ‘Buckwild’ Star Shain Gandee found dead
Shain Gandee, the former trash collector who found fame as the star of the MTV reality hit “Buckwild,” was found dead along with his uncle and an unidenti-fied person in a truck in West Virginia yesterday morning. Shain was last heard from around 3 a.m. on Sunday at a local bar, when he and his uncle told people they planned to go four-wheeling. The truck where they were found was stuck deep in mud, leading investigators
to think the three died of carbon monoxide poison-ing. “Our thoughts and prayers are with them,” MTV said in a statement, saying Shain “touched everyone he met.”
Ticktock goes the Bieber
The clock is ticking on Justin Bieber’s career, according to top music manager Peter Mensch, who reps acts like Metal-lica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. “I don’t know what Bieber’s problem is. His career is over in three years any-way,” Mensch tells the Sun. “I’d take Bieber to the woodshed and spank him.” 4
There didn’t seem to be much tension between Ar-nold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver when the separated couple sat down this weekend at an Easter brunch at a Santa Monica, Calif., restaurant with their children, according to E! News. Schwarzeneg-ger has reportedly been dating another woman, Heather Milligan, since the fall. Milligan was not present at the family brunch.
Arnold and
Maria : No
drama
2 “Glee” star Cory Monteith, 30, has “voluntarily admit-ted himself to a treatment facility,” his representative told People magazine. The reason for the rehab stay is unspecified. He report-edly checked in Monday morning. Monteith plays Finn Hudson on the hit Fox series. His girlfriend and co-star on the series, Lea Michele, 26, gave the follow-ing quote to People: “I love and support Cory and will stand by him through this. I am grate-ful and proud he made this deci-sion.” Monte-ith has
struggled with substance abuse in the past. In a 2011 interview with Pa-rade magazine, he admit-ted to a rehab stay when he was just 19. “I burned a lot of bridges,” he said. “I was out of control.” At the time, he said he had a “serious problem” and
was using “anything and everything, as much as possible.” “Glee” is currently filming its latest season and has two more
episodes left to shoot. Deadline Hollywood
reports that filming will continue and Finn’s absence will be explained through plotlines.
‘Glee’ star in rehab Twitter feed
Checking in with some
of Hollywood’s biggest
names to see what they’ve
been up to — in their own
words, in 140 characters
or fewer.
Today, Jonah Hill is just
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where this is going.
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Rivers wants some
hate mail
Joan Rivers is doubling down on criticisms of Adele’s weight. Asked dur-ing a HuffPost Live chat about a joke she made at the singer’s expense on the “Late Show with David Letterman,” Rivers took it further. “It’s not mean. She’s a chubby lady who’s very, very rich, and she should just calm down — or lose weight,” Rivers replied. “She wanted an apology, so I took an ad out on her ass. I said, ‘You are not fat.’ And then I had room for a lot of other ads. Adele is beautiful and successful and has what, $100 million? Let’s face reality: She’s fat!”
From forced labor to eventual freedom
Despite official denials of their existence, North Korea’s political prison camps have been in opera-tion for six decades, long enough for generations to have been born and raised within their electrified fences. In all that time, no one born inside the camps ever escaped — until Shin Dong-hyuk crawled over the body of a dead com-panion and though a hole in the fence in 2005.
Veteran foreign corre-spondent Blaine Harden told Shin’s story on the front page of the Wash-ington Post in 2008, hop-ing his harrowing tale would alert American readers largely ignorant of the camps’ existence.
“Shin’s story is so pow-erful and has so many cinematic elements to it that it’s very effec-tive in catching people’s interest,” Harden says. “It became clear that his story was a way of reaching people who don’t normal-ly pay attention to foreign affairs or to North Korea.”
That initial article grew into the bestselling book “Escape From Camp 14,” which recounts Shin’s life of forced labor and abuse at the hands of camp guards and his own family. It wasn’t un-til they’d met more than a dozen times that Shin was able to reveal his deepest secret, however: his com-plicity in the execution of his mother and brother.
Following that confes-sion, Harden was forced to re-examine Shin’s story.
“As I thought it through, it increased his credibility from my point of view. There was no reason for him to tell this story that made him look so bad. And there’s the evidence of the scars on his body; they’re overwhelming, ghastly disfigurements.”
Ideally, Harden says, accounts like those will increase pressure on North Korea to close the camps, which recent sat-ellite imagery suggests are expanding. “I’m not opti-mistic that they are going to disappear,” he admits. “But knowledge is better than ignorance, and Shin feels like all the misery that he went through has not been for nothing.”
Books. “Escape From Camp 14” recounts one man’s life of forced labor, abuse and eventual escape from North Korea.
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That must’ve been an overwhelming and complicated moment. Did you even register the humor of it at the time?Yes! I was so fixated on it, that I missed some of the emotional moment. And that, I would say, is something I do.
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Moses Gates has friends in very high places, the lowest of low places and everywhere in between. Part of a close-knit net-work of urban explorers, he has climbed the Notre Dame Cathedral, surveyed the depths of the Parisian catacombs, braved playing frogger in metro systems the world over — and lived to tell the tales in his memoir “Hidden Cities.” Not without some ego – he boasts membership to an exclusive club of dare-devils who’ve had sex on top of bridges — and not without breaking the law, the city planner admits that it’s the unplanned moments that make for fantastic voyages. We ask him about fear factors, factory tourism and Facebook.
People often seek to travel “off the beaten path.” But you do a lot of traveling where there’s no actual path to begin with. What’s the draw?Places are popular for a reason. The problem with tourism isn’t the places you’re going to, it’s the way that tourism is con-ducted. The more people that travel to a place, the more it becomes com-modified, which leads to it being more expensive, controlled and cynical. The places are still amazing — the Roman Coliseum, for example — but if you go to the Coliseum in Tunisia, where “Gladiator” was filmed, it’s just as incred-ible a monument, but there’s less tourists, there’s not a subway stop there — it’s a different experience.
Most of the adventuring you describe in the book, you didn’t do alone. But what if you go to a place where you have no connections? How would you navigate a city solo?I run into a bunch of great characters while traveling and I love writing them,
but I would say two-thirds of the time I’m alone. If you’re on the backpacker trail, it’s easy to find people to go around with. One of the tricks I always used is that in every hostel or backpacker bar, there’s always an extrovert. Sometimes they’re fun, sometimes they’re jerks, but always attach yourself to that person for two reasons: 1, That person always talks to the locals; 2, That person almost never has any actual ideas, they just get into things. That’s one of the ways to do it. Getting invested in a subculture is another. Start forming a network; it’s so easy to do with the Internet. Mine happened to be urban exploration, but it could be anything.
In terms of safety and
legality, do you have advice for people who might be inspired after reading your book to go, say, climb a pyramid?I’m always a proponent of going where you want to go, doing what you want to do. I never worry about getting hurt or dying. I’m never stressed about the danger part, because I’m a good climber, I know how subway tunnels work and how to not get hit. But I’m always terrified of getting caught. It’s more random, and you have less control over it. Everybody has their own risk tolerance. The key is to know what yours is and push it a little bit.
You acknowledge in the book that here’s an inherent egotism that comes with traveling off the grid. What keeps you humble?I know so many people who do much more badass s— than me. I love what we do and what I do, but we’re not curing cancer, we’re not jumping from outer space, we’re not Sir Edmund Hillary or any-thing — we just probably push the envelope more than your average traveler. We’re skilled hobbyists. I just see myself as a person who is curious and had
a period in life where he was fairly risk-adverse and wanted to find it. If urban exploration was a baseball game, I’m like a solid jour-neyman utility infielder that is lucky enough to play on the 1927 Yankees.
There’s a tendency now when vacationing to document everything, to get pleasure from showing others what a pleasurable experience we’re having. How do you think social media aff ects the way we travel?I tweet all the goddamn time; I post a million photos on Facebook. Everybody likes to share stories. Is taking a photo of your dinner and put-ting it on Facebook that different from having a conversation about din-ner? [Social media] is just a different mechanism. What you have to ask yourself is, are you really doing something for the story or because you want to do it? It’s the times when you find something you weren’t looking for because you’re out being curious that are the best moments, not the ones that you try for.
MOSES GATES The author takes us on his urban exploratory adventures in “Hidden Cities.” Some are insane, some
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Youkilis, Yankees fight frustrating season debut
Over the past eight years, Kevin Youkilis had hun-dreds of significant at-bats for the Red Sox. His first important at-bat with the Yankees ended with him lightly slamming his helmet to the ground.
The reaction was caused by a fruitless at-bat with two on and two out in the bottom of the seventh inning.
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Opening Day. The season starts with frustration as the Yankees’ opener ends with a thud in the Bronx.
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There was nothing aes-thetically pleasing about the Mets’ 11-2 Opening Day win over the Padres at Citi Field yesterday. Instead, the crowd wit-nessed was more than a three-hour ode to funda-mental baseball.
The Mets improved to an MLB-best 34-18 on Opening Day with an of-fensive attack that plated 11 runs on 13 hits. The Mets finished the after-noon 7-for-14 with run-ners in scoring position. Seven players recorded at least one RBI, and five others recorded at least one two-out RBI.
Colin Cowgill set a career high in RBI with four, all coming in the seventh with his two-out grand slam. DENIS GORMAN
Opening nerves
The Mets were all smiles
after the win, but don’t
let the impressive — and
composed — 6 2/3 innings
from fi rst-time Opening
Day starter Jon Niese fool
you.
• “The adrenaline was
pumping, I’m not go-
ing to lie,” Niese said.
“As far as the anxiety, it
really wasn’t much.” Collin Cowgill, center, is greeted at home after his grand slam. MIKE STOBE, GETTY IMAGES
‘Scrappy’ Mets earn big opening win
The Yankees line up along the fi rst baseline during pregame festivities on Opening Day 2013. ELSA, GETTY IMAGES
20www.metro.usTuesday, April 2, 2013
3SPORTS
Man-u down
Ginobili to miss
time The No. 1 team in the
West was dealt a post-
season blow yesterday
when it was announced
Manu Ginobili will be
out for three to four
weeks. The guard pulled
his right hamstring
March 29 against the
Clippers and missed
Sunday’s game against
the Heat. Now it looks
like his off -time will eat
into at least the fi rst
round of the playoff s,
which begins April 20.
New start
Flynn traded to Raiders
Matt Flynn never got to a
play a down in Seattle af-
ter signing a three-year,
$26 million deal last
off season. Now he’ll get
to start anew in Oakland.
The Raiders traded two
late-round picks for the
27-year-old quarterback,
who was beat out by
rookie Russell Wilson.
Oakland is expected to
try to unload incumbent
starter Carson Palmer,
possibly to Arizona.
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