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2nd Avenue and 5th Street [Fixed] by Chung Chu at flickr

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a partial facade collapse on East 148 St. in the Bronx, two pedestrians struck on 72nd St. and West End Ave. in Manhattan, a body found on Pioneer St. in Brooklyn.
  
• A developmentally disabled woman on Staten Island depends on Social Security benefits to survive, but the SSA keeps declaring her dead.
  
• A three alarm fire injured one person on East 166th St. and Teller Ave. in the Morrisania section of the Bronx early Saturday morning.
  
• The Gowanus Lounge wonders if the C-Town grocery store in Park Slope is a vortex of lust based on Missed Connections.
  
• NYC Transit is reporting that ridership is the highest it's been since 1969. During 2007, 2.3 billion rides were taken on subways and buses.
  
• A massive scaffolding collapse in Midwood, Brooklyn left no one injured, but brought down power lines and crushed cars on both sides of the street.
  
• Stephon Marbury's season with Knicks is over after he underwent surgery for bone spurs.
  
• Angel Rodriguez, 12, and Michael Mumford, 13 are the heroes of the weekend. When they smelled smoke 1 a.m. Sunday morning from a blaze that began on the 5th floor of their East 21st St. walk-up; instead of racing directly from the 6th floor apartment where they were watching a movie, the boys knocked on every door in the 30-unit building alerting neighbors of danger.