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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a gas leak on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn, a shooting on Holland Ave. in the Bronx, and a boat in distress at the World's Fair Marina in Queens.
- Three Staten Island homes were looted following last week's nor'easter that damaged a retaining wall and forced residents to evacuate.
- Pope Benedict will be the third pontiff to visit NYC, but it won't be anytime this year.
- The fire that ultimately claimed the life of a grandmother to 20, as neighbors and family members jumped from upper-floor windows to escape flames, was started by a child playing with a lighter.
- A UPS delivery man was diverting guns addressed to a pistol and rifle range in Chelsea and selling them himself. The man in brown is arrested and the BATF is investigating who wound up with the undelivered packages.
- We're not sure who should be most offended by this: Muslims for having their traditional dress scorned, Elizabeth Wolff, whose editor forced her to dress in a chador all day and then write about it, or NY Post readers, who will soon be asked to fork over an extra quarter to read articles like this.
- Heads up for the young ladies: Joey Buttafuoco has been released from prison, again. If you're a woman too young to know who Joey Buttafuoco is, we are talking to you.
- Massachusetts prosecutors have arrested two Bostonians and charged them with the killing of a New York woman, just recently moved to the city.
- A 13-year-old riding his bike last night was hit and killed by the driver of an SUV that sped from the scene.
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