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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a stabbing on 20th Ave. and the Whitestone Expressway in Queens, a slashing on Van Siclen Ave. and Linden Blvd. in Brooklyn, and three people were shot (one homicide) on Hoe Ave. in the Bronx.
  • Just when you thought crime in Newark could not possibly get worse, a witness in a major drug trial was murdered before he could testify. Cops believe that his killing was facilitated by a defense lawyer, who is a former Newark prosecutor.
  • The neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn is getting 72 new bike racks for cyclists.
  • Marble Hill residents fought to keep their neighborhood part of Manhattan as it was being geographically separated from the island and made contiguous with the Bronx. Now a Marble Hill woman is fighting to get her Housing Court lawsuit heard in a Bronx court, which tends to be a much friendlier venue for tenant claims.
  • Preservationists are grasping at straws to prevent the imminent destruction of the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Admirals Row. The federal government will have a small say in the matter.
  • An apartment on 79th St. and Amsterdam Ave. on Manhattan's Upper West Side was robbed today, when two men posing as delivery workers forced their way into an apartment.
  • The Week in Pictures from the Times blog City Room. That will be the last you'll hear from them until the 26th, as Gothamist staffers soldier on.
  • The Mexican government was required to open a mini-consulate at JFK to deal with its citizens attempting to fly home for the holidays without proper documentation.
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