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Williamsburg Savings Bank, from Bluejake

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a domestic homicide on Richards St. in Brooklyn, a suspicious package on Clinton and Montague Sts. in Brooklyn, and a large fight on 164th St. and Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattan.
  
• New York Giant linebacker Antonio Pierce pleaded guilty to charges of animal abuse and neglect, alongside his girlfriend. Pierce let his dogs run loose unsupervised, one was dangerously underweight with a respiratory infection, and they hadn't received any rabies shots.
  
• Mt. Vernon officials are claiming that air is safe to breathe in the wake of a chemical plant fire that sent smoke and fumes billowing into the air as far as Queens.
  
• Police offers shot a teenager three times in the midst of an on-foot pursuit after the kid allegedly stopped and pulled out a pistol.
  
• The Wall Street Journal surveys the nation's best hot dogs and singles out Shake Shack's as the best in NYC.
  
• Informal Columbia raptor mascot Hawkmadinejad has his own blog--Hawkmadinebwog.
  
• Students from across the city battled on the chess board today at an UES school.
  
• Bad mojo: someone is trying to sell a stolen REVS sculpture on Craigslist.
  
• The latest issue of the political magazine The New Republic has a cover that features the digitally morphed features of Sens. Obama and Clinton. The result is androgynously recognizable on both counts and unsettling.