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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: person under a train at 71st St. and 16th Ave. in Brooklyn, a stabbing on 112th St. and Lexington Ave. in Manhattan, and a bank robbery at Ave. of the Americas and West 18th St. in Manhattan.
- The Times wonders if people will be hoarding pre-rate-increase Metrocards the way token buyers used to stock up before a fare hike.
- A 17-year-old from Mt. Vernon was being held at Rikers Island after he was accused of statutory rape for having sex with a 14-year-old girl, and the judge who sent him there ordered that he should be put under suicide watch. The teenager was put into the jail's general population instead and he hung himself within 24 hours.
- The family of FDNY Lt. John Martinson harbors no ill feelings against the six-year-old who started the blaze that killed the firefighter.
- If you'd like to be one of the first to stay at Robert DeNiro's new Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca, NewYorkology notes that rooms are going for $725 a night and the hotel is taking reservations for April.
- The apartment complex where FDNY Lt. John Martinson lost his life is the former site of Ebbets Field, where the Brooklyn Dodgers played. Memories of people like Jackie Robinson are only dimly recalled.
- Lost City points readers towards a New Yorker magazine article about the destruction of a 176-year-old building in downtown Manhattan that was one of the few survivors of the Great Fire of 1835, with highlights.
- It's hard for working class people to get by in NYC; and by working class I mean households earning $80,000 to $150,000 a year.
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