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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: missing juveniles on Shore Front Parkway in Queens, a taxi cab vs. store front in the area of 63rd St. and Madison Ave. in Manhattan, and a suspicious death on Ralph Ave. and Prospect Pl. in Brooklyn.
- Investigators believe that the five-year-old boy who died in a home fire after being left alone by his older brother may have inadvertently started the fire himself. Jason Guallpa died from smoke inhalation.
- It only took a few days for one of Banksy's latest New York pieces to be negated by the removal of its context.
- A desegregation order enacted in 1974 for a Brooklyn school was ordered lifted by a federal judge after it was determined to be harming minority candidates.
- Nathan's Famous hot dogs will soon be available via public vending machines.
- Police arrested 24-year-old Eric Lee of Yonkers for the shooting death of Brione Schneider outside of Stereo that led to the Chelsea nightclub's eventual closing.
- Unaware that the tank of acetylene gas (used in welding) in his trunk was leaking into the interior of his car, a Port Chester, NY native lit a cigarette while in the front seat. The resulting explosion blew off the rear end of his car and shattered the windows of a nearby apartment building. The smoker survived with a leg injury.
- Paul Ford's fishing trip/bachelor party. No one-sentence summary could possibly suffice.
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