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Sky Room, by The Skipping Hippy at flickr

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a person struck by a train at 168th St. and Broadway in Manhattan, a burn victim at the UN Plaza in Manhattan, and a missing child on East Tremont Ave. in the Bronx.
The man killed after a Mercedes plunged into the Newtown Creek early yesterday morning was identified as Derek Winefsky. Friends described him as a fitness buff who worked at a Bayside health club.
The remains of four more people killed during the WTC attacks in 2001 were identified.
The lawsuit brought by the husband-and-wife attorneys who live in the Ansonia and were suing their neighbor for the smell of her cigarette smoke has been settled. The manufacturer of a smoke filtration system came forward and donated it to Galila Huff, the smoking neighbor.
Catholic school teachers have ended their strike and are back at work as negotiations with the archdiocese have resumed.
The case against the ex-boyfriend Jessica Tush is fairly strong. The details of her murder where no one could hear her screams are disturbing.
A Catholic priest who attended Harvard at the same time as Conan O'Brien has pleaded guilty to stalking the late-night television talk show host.
The Physics Dept. at NYU will receive $6.25 million from the Dept. of Defense for research into nanotechnology.