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Eldridge St. Synagogue, by AllWaysNY at flickr

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an overturned bulldozer on 65th St. and Metropolitan Ave. in Queens, vandalism to an NYPD vehicle at Newkirk Ave. and 31st St. in Brooklyn, and an armed robbery on 47th St. and Lexington Ave. in Manhattan.
  
• NYU is opening a foreign annex school in Abu Dhabi in a bid to expand intercultural awareness. No gays, Jews, or anyone who's visited Israel allowed, please.
  
• As if going to the dentist isn't uncomfortable enough, one dental office dumped patients' medical records, social security numbers, bank account information, and other private details on the sidewalk in front of its office. The founder asked, "Why are you making a federal case out of it?" but that's because he's breaking federal privacy laws left and right.
  
• A child-welfare worker deemed that Nixzmary Brown's home was "safe at the time" despite the fact the girl's stepfather cursed her when questioned about the girl's physical injuries and her mother showed her a dead fetus in a jar.
  
• From being the first Green Party mayor of a New York state town to painting walls and crashing on a Greenpoint floor.
  
• New plans for a playground in Prospect Park prompt the question, is it a playground without swings?
  
• The Quakers at the University of Pennsylvania will be the recipients of Mayor Bloomberg's wisdom at their commencement ceremony this spring.
  
• And Posh Spice believes in child labor - when it comes to her kids. Her 3-year-old son Cruz performed at the Spice Girls concert last night.