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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: shots fired in Harlem, a suspicious package on 42nd and Madison, and a bunch of fires in Brooklyn.
- Brooklyn Papers gets the award for the strangest photo-montage of the week, to go with this story about wild raccoons.
- Kenny Kramer is having his busiest week since Seinfeld went off the air. Here's his media statement: "I know the public is smart enough to realize that Michael Richards' personal actions in no way reflect on the character he portrayed on television or me, Kenny Kramer, the real person that the character was based on."
- Sad news: Gerald Boyd, the first Black managing editor of The New York Times, died yesterday of lung cancer. He was only 56 years old.
- If you had $100 million to spend on philanthropy in Brooklyn, what would you do?
- Of course, you don't need $100m to do something kind. Here's one suggestion: adopt a cat from BARC, our favorite animal shelter. [Via Gowanus Lounge.]
- The New Yorker has a beautiful slideshow of Jerry Shore shots from around New York City. Adam Gopnik compares his work to Eugene Atget's in turn of the century Paris.
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