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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A suspicious package at Grand Army Plaza Station in Brooklyn, structural damage at Lexington & East 31st in Manhattan, and an industrial accident at Hunters Point Ave at 30 Place in Queens.
- Crime in city parks has gone up, with most being in Central Park, Flushing Meadows Park, Prospect Park and Riverside Park.
- Students were allowed to leave John Dewey High School when a teacher apparently saw a gun fall out of another student's bag.
- The Juniper Park Civic Association is working to raise $1 million to move St. Saviour's to a new location, the All Faiths cemetery in Middle Village.
- According to a veterinarian hired by a carriage horse trade group, the animals are well cared for and healthy.
- The City Council gave the okay for Williamsburg rezoning that limits building height to six stories.
- Brooklyn and Queens Time Warner Cable customers, you'll soon get to see Pat Kiernan in HD! TWC is adding new HD channels on April 30.
- The Statue of Liberty is fairly accurately represented in the animated GI Joe movie's opening. Maybe.
- The exclusive Beatrice Inn has very simple bathroom rules.
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