• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: shooting and shots fired in west Midtown, bank robbery on the Upper West Side, and a gas main break in Brooklyn Heights.
• Sent in by NK: "While flying from West Palm Beach (6AM) to JFK, a piece of the plan engine detached from left engine causing an emergency landing. Children cried, people prayed, camera phones came out. As the plane safely landed everyone clapped. Quite the cinematic moment. Image of plane engine ( our row informed the staff of the accident) mid flight." Umm, yikes and holy shit?
• Oh, pity the poor Upper East Siders who are about to be evicted from the tony 10021 Zipcode-- they're being exiled to 10065 and 10075 because of overcrowding in the district.
• Looks like lines at Shakespeare in the Park are going to be extra long this summer-- today the company announced that it's following Romeo and Juliet with A Midsummer Night's Dream, and both are sure to draw huge crowds.
• Rudy Giuliani might be even more liberal than some right-wingers thought! His firm has recently been representing Citgo, the Venezuelan oil company controlled by the portly populist Hugo Chavez.
• Signs of an impending real estate apocalypse part eighty million: crazy ugly apartments being built with windows literally 10ft from the BQE.

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