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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: person struck by D train at 34th Street, serious moving vehicle accident on Canal Street, and a fatal fall victim at Bed, the club in Chelsea (the victim fell down an elevator shaft.)
- Here's an interesting map of the long closed City Hall Station.
- The nefarious Brooklyn footlicker, who targeted more than 70 women on the subway, has been sentenced to four months in prison and a $1000 fine.
- The city has stopped enforcing its weird ban on calligraphers in City Parks-- earlier the NYPD has claimed that calligraphy doesn't qualify for first-amendment protection, because it's not art.
- What kind of sick burglars break into an apartment and steal the family dog?
- Bad idea jeans, building maintenance edition.
- Apparently naming a sports arena in a predominantly black Brooklyn neighborhood after a bank with ties to slavery and apartheid wasn't the world's greatest PR move. The controversy continues at the Brooklyn Papers.
- The Australian artist Lister did a huge mural in LES yesterday-- check it out.
Flats to Let, from Matt Weber's great Flickr stream. You can see more of his work at Urban Photos.
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