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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a gas main break on Dale Ave. and Amboy Rd. on Staten Island, an overturned garbage truck on Fountain Ave. and Linden Blvd. in Brooklyn, and a triple shooting on 82nd St. in Queens.
- When a boomtown real estate market goes bust, even the far-out reaches of NYC can assume a ghost town-like quality.
- Tavern on the Green is being sued for years of alleged racial and sexual harassment.
- Mayor Bloomberg has traveled to New Orleans, LA, in what the Associated Press is describing as a mandatory stop for Presidential candidates, even when they are not running for President.
- New York City's municipal television network is now offering its shows on-demand from its web site.
- A former NYPD deputy inspector, who was booted from the department after his conviction for robbing a drug dealer of $60K in 1996, won almost $1 million from a scratch-off game this August.
- The one-time Brendan Byrne Arena in the Meadowlands is looking for a corporate sponsor to affix a name to its facade.
- An online phone service will push ads at users based on the verbal content of their phone conversations.
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