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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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So that's eight potential episodes for Law & Order... all in a day's work...

Was someone in search of "cock" on flickr...

will the "donors" to the money laundering scheme get a visit from the IRS?

I find it odd that in the High Line article, they mention the brand of cigarette that the guy was about to light up.

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