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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on East 169th St. and Franklin Ave. in the Bronx, an aircraft emergency at Laguardia in Queens, and a power outage on Laconia Ave. in the Bronx.
- The suit about seizing private property for another private owner in the name of public gain will move to the Supreme Court after a 3-judge panel ruled that Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards eminent domain actions were O.K. with them.
- Some subway graffiti suggesting who the real Cloverfield monster is.
- Michelle Williams released a statement about former fiancee Heath Ledger's death: "My heart is broken...I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father. All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day."
- J. Lo reportedly will give birth on Long Island soon, while wearing couture maternity clothes. No word yet on whether Marc Anthony will have J-Lo's obstetrician abacinated following the birth, like the architect of St. Basil's in Russia.
- A construction crane on Washington Street, between Watts and Debrosses Sts., snapped and half in Tribeca; a witness saw the crane's ball fall!
- A few words from the recently shuttered 2nd Street Cafe in Park Slope; a place can't survive on lunches and brunches alone.
- More testimony in the treason case of Lower East Side residents Ethel and Julius Rosenberg will become public.
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