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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a possible abduction at 39th St. and 4th Ave. in Brooklyn, falling debris from 820 Columbus Ave. in Manhattan, and a stabbing on East 214th St. in the Bronx.
  • Queens Councilman James Gennaro was fined $2,000 after admitting to the Conflict of Interest Board that he asked a staffer to volunteer on his campaign, although he says he has no recollection of the 2003 incident
  • MTA CEO Elliot Sander has instructed his division heads to only cut costs by 1.5% next year, after concluding that there is no more fat to trim or inefficiencies to reduce at the agency.
  • Madonna spent two hours at Bill Clinton's Harlem offices yesterday, possibly discussing an endorsement of his wife's run for President. She has yet to visit Hillary Clinton's offices.
  • A GoogleMaps mashup illustrating the geography of Seinfeld.
  • Free alt-weekly New York Press changes ownership hands again. It was sold by Avalon Equity Partners to Manhattan Media for an undisclosed sum.
  • Whoopi Goldberg was chosen as Rosie O'Donnell's replacement on the female chat-show The View.
  • The New York Times looks at bad behavior at four star restaurants, when well-heeled diners can't wait until they get home to vomit, get naked, or have sex.
Untitled photo of Greenwood Cemetary, by bigaila at flickr

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That Google Seinfeld map...are they gonna do one for Law and Order? Someone told me, that show has a habit of listing addresses that are actually somewhere in the middle of the East River. True?

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British people shouldn't get involved in American Presidential races.

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that's a stunning picture.

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