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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an injured police officer on Queens Blvd. and Ascan Ave. in Queens, a stabbing on Nostrand and Willoughby Aves. in Brooklyn, and a large fight at Targee St. and Sobel Ct. on Staten Island.
Neighbors, customers, and small investors get involved to save a local bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
In order to pay off sex harassment lawsuits and under-performing athletes, the Dolans are jacking up cable rates for Cablevision customers by almost 5% beginning December and January.
A 34-year-old dentist was shot twice in the chest and killed on a Queens playground this morning.
More surveillance tape of Carol Gotbaum before her death has been released by Arizona law enforcement.
The curious case of the "bird man" and the kidnapped pigeons.
West Village residents and customers of an 80-year-old newsstand operated by two immigrant brothers are protesting the city's closing of the sidewalk landmark.
This has nothing to do with NYC whatsoever, but the Div. III Trinity University Tigers defeated the Millsaps College Majors 28-24 by executing 15 lateral passes in a single play with two seconds remaining in a game yesterday. Sports Illustrated has the YouTube clip.

Untitled photo of a neighborhood lifesaver, by emilydickinsonridesabmx at flickr

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