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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: shots fired at a school on Flushing Ave. in Brooklyn, a shooting on 25th St. and 9th Ave. in Manhattan, and an unstable building at Willoughby and Lawrence Sts. in Brooklyn.
Reports of a massive financial windfall for Ashley Alexandra Dupre from music downloads were wildly exaggerated.
Just when it seems like good times have come to an end in NYC, secluded exclusive hot spot Submercer re-opens.
The female officer who was allegedly assaulted and called a "dyke bitch" by Philly anchorwoman Alycia Lane, has twice been in involved in lawsuits for using excessive force.
Congressman Charles Rangel was not the only the only NY pol kept from today's state inaugural proceedings by illness. Former Governor Mario Cuomo was also detained by a touch of the flu.
Curbed notes that the East Village is not just gentrifying, it's shooting for Upper East Side snootiness.
Patrick Foye resigned today. He was the downstate commissioner of the Empire State Development Corporation who was appointed by Gov. Spitzer to oversee the Moynihan Station development and several other moribund projects.
How does one handle a working-Monday St. Patrick's Day when one is a drunkard? The East Village Idiot wants to know.