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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an armed robbery on Washington Pl. and Broadway in Manhattan, a person under a train at 42nd St. and 8th Ave. in Manhattan, and a bomb threat at Utopia Ave. and 58th Ave. in Queens.
- A Chappaqua neighbor of Bill and Hillary Clinton was arrested for the murder of his wife. Last year, he claimed that a stranger burst into their SUV following an accident and shot her.
- There was a seven-car pile-up on the northbound FDR near 96th St. that backed up traffic for 30 blocks today. No injuries were reported.
- A two foot-long steel girder fell from the under-renovation High Line today and struck a car.
- The three detectives charged with the murder of Sean Bell are close to formally requesting a change of legal venue outside of Queens County.
- Streit's Matzo factory is leaving the Lower East Side.
- The grand rabbi of a Brooklyn-based Hasidic sect was arrested with his L.A.-located executive assistant for operating a money laundering scheme that profited them $750,000.
- Boingboing features a gallery of Soviet era space-themed Christmas cards.
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