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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a double shooting/possible homicide on Greene St. in Brooklyn, a shooting at Wyckoff Ave. and Starr St. in Brooklyn, and another shooting at East 51st St. and Church Ave. in Brooklyn.
- An appreciation of Jewish Delis in New York City.
- To avoid the widespread use of pesticides on its acres of grounds, real estate firm Tishman Speyer released 720,000 ladybugs around Stuy-Town and Peter Cooper Village. The ladybugs will search out and eat tinier bugs that are harmful to plants.
- An EMT was caught by a city inspector allegedly involved in some risqué business in the back of an emergency vehicle with a woman. The woman claims she is just friends with the EMT, who was transferred from Staten Island to Brooklyn.
- Federal officials are recommending that JFK cut the number of flights in and out of the airport, saying that it is operating beyond capacity.
- Jesse Friedman, of "Capturing the Friedmans" infamy, is looking to clear his and his family's name by arguing that children who testified against them had been hypnotized.
- The woman who's been living in the same house with her estranged husband with a court-ordered wall separating the two has retained the lawyer who helped Catherine Gotti divorce jailed mobster Peter Gotti in 2004.
- The City Room blog at the Times is conducting a Joe Torre Haiku Contest, with no prize other than the esteem of other Times readers. Remember: 5-7-5 syllables.
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