It is not only home to the Via Domo luxury precinct (expect to see Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Gucci, Valentino among other Italian brands), it coaxes in visitors with Las Vegas-style indoor gondola rides on the canals that run between the shops and the indoor Gondolania Theme Park, with rollercoasters, flume rides and a free-fall tower.
The officer, Alfonso Mendez, 30, who joined the force in 2005 and was assigned to the 84th Precinct, was expected to face administrative charges of failing to take proper police action, which could include failing to report to the department what had happened, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman.
This precinct is expecting 800 people in a room with a capacity for only 300, so it was smart for them to get here early.
The rookie officer brought the handcuffed suspect, who was unhurt and ostentatiously nonchalant about his arrest, to the precinct house, expecting praise, or if not praise -- this was the N.Y.P.D. after all -- then silent approval for his valiant deed.
Nah, you just can't keep throwing rocks at the precinct and expect nobody to come out.
Then again, an appetite for serious literature can be found far beyond the expected precincts, as Mr. Franzen himself uncomfortably discovered when Ms. Winfrey chose "The Corrections," his previous novel, for her book club in 2001.
CNN, for example, pledged to augment information from Voter News Service with its own polling of key precincts in races it expected to be especially close.
Turnout was heavier than expected in precincts around Richmond and in Northern Virginia, especially since this is an off-year election with no presidential or congressional races on the ballot.
With 94percentt of precincts reporting, Sen. Ted Cruz is expected to take third over former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, but both candidates are separated by less than 1percentt of the vote.
Now, complaints about everything from loud music to graffiti, public drinking, prostitution, panhandling and homelessness will be "pin mapped" precinct by precinct, and police supervisors will be expected to move quickly and aggressively to counter any trends, the mayor and his police commissioner, Bernard B. Kerik, said.
