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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: An unusual odor in the Bronx, two pedestrians struck (one in Manhattan, a fatal one in the Bronx), and three alarm fire at a tire yard in Brooklyn
  • The Department of Education will reinstate 17 bus routes, finally realizing that giving 5-year-olds MetroCards is a very mean lesson
  • We're so with East Village Idiot on this one: Dear Two Girls Who Work in My Building, Why did you feel the need to slow down the very last part of my excruciating commute this morning by getting on the elevator on the 2nd floor and getting off on the 3rd floor?
  • Weird: In a story about the doctor who police believe was attacked in his Upper East Side triplex, a neighbor tells the Daily News, "There was a suspicious guy who came a few times in the last six months. I told the police about him. They told me not to speak about it."
  • New and expecting parents: ModernTots in Dumbo is having a sample sale this weekend!
  • Busta Rhymes was busted for driving without his license in TriBeCa; he told the cops, "You hide behind the shield. This is bulls---." Then he told the judge he thought the cops were robbers in disguise.
  • Representative Anthony Weiner may run for Mayor in 2009; so far, other suspects include City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and City Comptroller William Thompson
  • And if you're planning ahead, this Sunday is Chinatown's Chinese New Year Parade

    • Photograph of a Kensington wine shop by mollydobkin on Flickr

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By Jen Chung in on February 23, 2007 6:14 PM

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  • Dave

    Wasn't the parade last Sunday?

  • residualparadox

    To my understanding, most office buildings only allow you to enter every 2-3 floors or so from the stairs. It has something to do with fire codes. Maybe the door on the third floor is labeled "No Entry" and therefore locked, preventing the girls from taking the stairs.

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