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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: there was a falling bricks collapse at East 128th St. and Madison Ave. in Manhattan, a stabbing on East 180th St. in the Bronx, and a homicide on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.
  • An interview with the creators of a multimedia presentation that represents a post-Atlantic Yards development Brooklyn.
  • Visit upper Manhattan's Ft. Tryon Park tomorrow to go old school at the 2007 Medieval Festival around The Cloisters. Jesters, jousters, jugglers and others will be performing for all ages.
  • Streetsblog notes that the Yankee Stadium scoreboard is encouraging mass transit as games sell out and Bronx parking is totally disrupted by the new stadium's construction.
  • Visitors to Coney Island Creek in Brooklyn saw a rare sight yesterday: a wayward dolphin surfacing in the harbor. The sleek mammal hung out for a few hours before swimming safely back out to sea.
  • Suffolk County police are reporting that they found an NYPD officer dead in her home with a gunshot wound to her chest. Her fiancĂ© called in the incident.
  • Passengers flying out of JFK may experience a decrease in delays with the FAA's plan to offer fewer flights out of the airport and charge people more money for them.
  • Parents are upset that no one noticed that a Chinatown brothel near Pace HS was trying to engage their kids' healthy interest in sexual development with hookers.
prospect park boathouse at dusk, by sandcastlematt at flickr

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