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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on Lexington and 55th St. in Manhattan at 4:03 pm (and a second bank robbery seven minutes later on 27th St. and 6th Ave.), a special delivery (as cops helped a mother give birth) at Henry and Rutgers Streets in Manhattan and a home invasion/homicide on 100th St. in Brooklyn.
Former Staten Island ferry captain Richard Smith was released from prison after serving his term for his role in the 2003 ferry crash that killed 11 people and gravely injured many more.
Blues guitarist Bill Perry died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday, and opera singer Jerry Hadley passed away after being removed from life support. They were 49 and 55 years old, respectively.
The anniversary ceremony of the 9/11 attacks, where victims names are read aloud, will not take place at Ground Zero this year due to construction activity, but at a small park.
Queens Crap may know why foreclosures are at "worrisome levels": "Queens has the most lending predators and subprime mortgage victims."
With the opening of a new DNA facility on Manhattan's East Side, the city's capacity for DNA tests will soar from 3,000 annually to 20,000 annually; the extra capacity will be used to pursue suspects in cases such as burglaries.
The Macy's-sponsored fishing contest held annually at Prospect Park's lake lets kids 15 and under fish for a special tagged fish nicknamed R.H. Macy. The child who catches it wins a prize. The opening ceremony was rained out yesterday, but the contest continues through Sunday.
Should Berlin's recycling bins come to NYC? Brownstoner thinks it would at least make things more simple.

Airplane Hangar, by coolstein at flickr

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on July 19, 2007 6:35 PM

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Tim N.

So how long before the "we own 9/11" crowd starts screaming about having the ceremony moved?

Oh, wait, they just started.

PS: Good one, zodak.

zodak

"What do people have to hide?"

said #5: posting anonymously

lol!

guest

Why isn't the government taking DNA samples from everyone employed in sensitive positions, and from babies as they are born?

I work for an investment bank, and before I got the job, I needed to submit fingerprints and go through a FBI background check.

What do people have to hide?

guest

New Yorkers are too dumb for recycling. In my building people routinely put trash in the recycling bins and not neatly tied up trash either. I often find open take-out food containers dripping oily sauces onto the paper recycling. Trash on the floor that could easily have been tied up and put down the chute. Computers and other electronics on the floor of the trash room. Half full and recorked bottles of wine in the glass/plastic/metal recycling bin.

bklynd

Bay Ridge Blog has some photos and info.

http://bayridgebrooklyn.blogspot.com/

"Rumor has it that there was a shooting in an apartment building on 69th near Third. That is was a dispute between a father and son, with the son barricaded in the apartment."

MT

Yikes! Those Berlin bins look like they should be bomb shelters or something? Aside from being hideous. where would you put bins that big on our narrow sidewalks?

guest

Can anyone help me out with what happened at the corner of Bay Ridge Ave (69th St) and 3rd ave in Brooklyn last night? Around 10:30-11, there were a ton of cops out there and two helicopters overhead. I can't find squat in the papers.