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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a boat in distress off the Breezy Point Jetty in Queens, a bank robbery on 14th St. and 5th Ave. in Brooklyn, and a stabbing on East 115th St. in Manhattan.
  • Jay Jay French, the guitarist for Twisted Sister, is upset that an Upper West Side Florist that's been in the neighborhood for 87 years is being forced to move to New Jersey due to higher rents.
  • Living With Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog posts that board member David Elder called the NYPD bomb squad to the hotel after receiving what he deemed a suspicious package. It was suspicious in that it didn't contain a bomb, but a fish head.
  • All is not serene at the Hare Krishna Sanctuary on 1st Ave. between 1st and 2nd Sts., as one group of followers is attempting to evict another group.
  • Bruce Ratner may lose $100 million in city subsidies for his Atlantic Yards project unless drastic revisions are made to the conditions of the tax breaks.
  • Ugly Outfits New York. Further explanation is simply unnecessary.
  • If you've been hunting for a co-op to buy into that comes with a pre-installed stripper pole and mini-stage in the living room, Curbed may have found something for you. We'd love to sit in on that co-op board interview.
  • ConEd announced that it would pay businesses for any physical damages caused by last week's steam explosion, but won't pay anything for lost business while the frozen zone around the blast site was being cleaned.
Drink Coke, by Paulo C at flickr
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By Dave Hogarty in on July 23, 2007 6:15 PM

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