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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a homicide on Pine St. on Staten Island, a person pinned under a car at 14th St. and Ave. B in Manhattan, and a person under a train at the Times Square subway station in Manhattan.
- The Dept. of Transportation intends to remove the Sonny Carson Ave. street signs placed in protest on Gates Ave. in Brooklyn.
- A two-year-old toddler in Linden, NJ was crushed to death when his family's 40-inch tv fell on him.
- Are movie stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon unaware of live theater audience etiquette? At a August: Osage County matinee, they reportedly texted on their Blackberries before leaving at intermission.
- Is there an equivalent neighborhood to Park Slope in Iraq?
- For the noisy: Sound-dampening building materials that are made out of cardboard and widely configurable.
- Al D'Amato wants Bloomberg to run for governor.
- The Staten Island Advance's 1912 Model T delivery truck will be participating in tomorrow's Staten Island St. Patrick's Day Parade.
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