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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a water main break on Pacific St. in Brooklyn, an armed robbery on Jamaica Ave. in Queens, and a burn victim on West 165th St. in the Bronx.
  • Spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy reportedly accomplished many feats during his life, but still died at his home in Queens, NY.
  • A fight among members of a group of men, who were turned away from a Chelsea nightclub because they didn't meet the dress code, turned physically violent last night, when one of the men was stabbed.
  • The owner of a Bronx laundromat is suing Verizon, because when the company installed cell phone relay stations on the roof of her building, it just tapped into her electricity source. Her electric bills soared and now she wants $115,000.
  • With Broadway producers not staging a lockout and no terms met on a new stagehands' contract, Local One is prepared to call for a strike vote later this month. Stagehands have never conducted a strike before in NYC.
  • The city's new scooter patrol booked about 11,000 rooms-for-improvement items since their introduction in August. 400 incidences of graffiti were recorded between October 1st and 5th alone.
  • Foxy Brown twice refused to get on a Corrections Dept. bus at Rikers Island to be arraigned at a Brooklyn Supreme Court. She can't stay on Rikers forever though, so officials are saying that she'll be cuffed and bodily placed on the bus the next time she has a court date.
  • The head of a nationwide teachers union exited the closet during an address this week. Randi Weingarten is a lesbian.
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I tell you that main space at the old customs house would make a great wrap around bar. Good ceiling height with nice murals. I can just see the hotties lined up three deep.

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Put a noose around Foxy Browns neck and drag her skank ass to court.

Isn't Randi Weingarten the head of the United Federation of Teachers, the NYC local of the AFT? Isn't she, therefore the head of a local -- not a national union ? PS: wasn't this really the second or third such public announcement? After this will it stop being news?

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"Put a noose around Foxy Browns neck and drag her skank ass to court."

lol

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