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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a gas main break on Morris Ave. and 164th St. in the Bronx, a person under the train at Union Ave. and 4th St. in Brooklyn, and an escaped prisoner on East 30th and 1st Ave. in Manhattan.
- A trip to Bloomingdale's resulted in a beating by a disturbed stranger, who threw one of his victims through a window.
- Despite a huge budget shortfall, NJ legislators want to enact a healthcare program for all residents to have health care within three years.
- Brooklyn is becoming a college campus of choice for kids who don't want to have to deal with insanity and craziness.
- A man was found dead, locked in a suitcase, locked in a trunk, of a livery limo in the Bronx and cops are baffled. One other thing, it may be time for Columbo.
- The market made its biggest leap in five years following the self-implosion of Bear Stearns. The sky's falling; it's rising; we really don't know.
- David Letterman's Top-Ten List about the NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade ended with, "That's not a leprechaun, it's Mayor Bloomberg."
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