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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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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on March 27, 2008 6:15 PM

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HughGass

"According to a veterinarian hired by a carriage horse trade group, the animals are well cared for and healthy."

In other news, according to a scientist hired by the tobacco growers and cigarette makers associate, smoking is perfectly healthy.