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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an unusual rescue on 68th St. and Central Park West in Manhattan, a confined space rescue at Lorimer and Meserole Sts. in Brooklyn, and a shooting on Carpenter Ave. and 221st St. in the Bronx.
- Columbia University is a-brimming with protests, against things like torture and apathy.
- A young man and his family are recovering from a freak accident involving a fallen tree branch in Riverside Park that put him in a coma.
- Billionaire Ron Perelman is suing his ex-wife Ellen Barkin and her brother for draining a company they founded together of a few hundred thousand dollars.
- The Long Island man with the "GETOSAMA" license plates filed a federal suit against the DMV to have them returned.
- Regulatory and zoning issues continue to hold up the construction of a Brooklyn Whole Foods grocery store, despite a groundbreaking that occurred a year ago.
- A 37-year veteran with the DOT was arrested after being accused of accepting bribes in relation to bridge construction.
- The application for a zoning change to the St. Saviour's property in Queens has apparently been withdrawn.
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The item about the young man and the tree branch in Riverside Park brings back some memories, rather scary memories at that. About 15 years ago I was walking in a nature preserve in Connecticut when I heard a loud "thunk." A sizable branch had fallen off an oak tree and landed about ten feet behind me. If I'd been walking just a little bit more slowly I would've been right in its trajectory. Given its size, and the distance from which it fell (the broken part was clearly visible on the tree), it wasn't a potentially skull-fracturing situation, but it was a potentially knocked-senseless-with-a-gash-on-the-head situation.
Peter, that's worse than getting hit by a pigeon! Don't tell any politician your story please!