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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a male struck by a train at 41st Ave. and Bell Blvd. in Queens, a man trapped under a truck at 38-40 Review Ave. in Queens, and shots fired on Albany Ave. in Brooklyn.
- A former assistant DA in Rockland County and Queens, who is also the estranged wife of a police chief, pleaded guilty to sexual encounters with teenage boys.
- Rather than sit uncomfortably with sweaty palms under fluorescent lights as someone does your taxes, a Hoboken, NJ accountant will do your taxes for you in a bar while you play darts and drink away your refund.
- TMI: Peter Gotti, brother of John and currently in prison for racketeering, wants his sentenced reduced due to hemorrhoids and other ailments.
- Residents of 10 Midwood in Brooklyn are crying out for help!
- A Rikers Island inmate, 30-year-old Joseph Salvio, was busted after attempting to have a fake hit man murder his own mother over Easter weekend.
- What could be more natural than meat that's grown rather than slaughtered, with none of the cruelty, but 300% of the creepiness?
- Forest Hills 72 is accepting votes on possible names for City Councilwoman Melinda Katz's baby. Queens Crap is sad there's no write-in.
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