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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a severed limb on 55th St. in Brooklyn, a person fatally struck by a train near the East Tremont Station on the 2 line in the Bronx, and an armed robbery on Bradhurst and 147th St. in Manhattan.
  • A mother brought her 15-year-old son to the hospital when she discovered him assembling what appeared to be a bomb in their home. The ER at Hoboken University Medical Center was evacuated when it was discovered she'd brought the device with her as well.
  • One of Mayor Bloomberg's cars was stolen for the second time in 14 months. The 2001 Lexus, which is used by his ex-wife, was stolen out of a parking garage on East 58th and found in Inwood with a pair of parking tickets and without several bags of presents.
  • The man who turned Zabar's into a food retailing phenomena, Murray Klein, died yesterday at the age of 84.
  • An interesting preservationist drove his clunker BMW around Brooklyn and into Manhattan this week to publicize a meeting that concerns the possible destruction of Admiral's Row--a series of 150-year-old decrepit homes at the Navy Yard. The giant sign atop his beater Beamer reads "Mayor Moo Moo, you maroon!"
  • A construction worker in the Bronx was killed today when a backhoe knocked him into a hole 10 feet deep.
  • Racked estimates there were approximately 1,500 people waiting on line in the snow to get into the new Meatpacking Apple store. If you don't like lines, check out our post from yesterday that features many pictures.
  • Today is the 66th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Not creepy. . . no, not at all, by ianqui at flickr
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By Dave Hogarty in on December 7, 2007 6:15 PM

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  • Dave Hogarty

    Well,it would be an affectation if someone weren't writing about a bunch of tech geeks "in line" waiting to get into a computer store. Then "on line" might be considered a clever turn of phrase, unless one was a humorless parochial pedant.

    I'll try to adhere to the more American norms in the future, however.

  • Spirit of 76

    Can we please drop the "on line" affectation? It's plainly an attempt to be pretentious. In the U.S., it's "in line," because obviously we're in a line of people, not on a line of people. If you want to go write for Londonist, feel free to use "on line" there.

  • nycat

    "personally fatally struck by a train?"

  • mocanlagunas

    Will he have to pay the parking tickets?

  • Peter

    A severed limb ...

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