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• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an amputation on the Van Wyck, a jumper down in Coney Island, and an off-duty Corrections officer shot in Bed-Stuy.
• The Lakers may be in town, but Kobe can't play! Bryant is suspended for hitting Manu Ginobili on Sunday, but we think the Knicks will choke.
• For the first time in 12 years, the city is going to be giving out new Section-8 housing vouchers to non-emergency applicants. The vouchers allow low-income renters to pay a portion of the market-rate rent, with the city paying the rest.
• The city has cancelled East Coast Golf's management contract on the Marine Park Golf Course, because the firm allegedly has ties to the Columbo crime family.
• More pix have emerged of Faile's response to the Splasher. Very cool.
• Next on Law & Order: English Class edition, a poem submitted by a 17 year old for a class project led to the arrest of a man on "misdemeanor forcible touching" charges.
• And Ronell Wilson was sentenced to death for killing two undercover police officers in 2003. He is the first man in 53 years given the death penalty in a federal case in NY State.

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