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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on East 39th St. in Manhattan, a large fight on 2nd Ave. in Manhattan, and a child in cardiac arrest on Pitt St. in Manhattan.
  • Police in Nassau County are conducting an active homicide investigation in New Cassel, after they were called to a home where three children--all under the age of seven--were found dead in a room. Their mother has been hospitalized.
  • Ripples of Kosovo's recent independence are being felt in New York City's Central and Eastern European immigrant communities.
  • Thousands of students fasted for a 30-hour period over the weekend to raise awareness of world hunger.
  • To celebrate the system's 100th anniversary tomorrow, everyone can ride the PATH trains to and from NJ for free.
  • A large number of the panels being removed from the stained glass window at American Airline's JFK Airport Terminal are going to the group lampooned as a cult that recruited members as they cleaned one's carpet for free in an episode of Seinfeld.
  • A Greyhound bus traveling from New York City to Syracuse and then across the border to Toronto flipped over in northeastern Pennsylvania early this morning. 41 of the passengers were treated at a hospital and released.
  • Grammy Award-winning singer Rihanna is working with an international bone marrow donor network to help Lisa Gershowitz Flynn, a New York City mother of two young children who has leukemia.

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