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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A bomb threat in Staten Island, a person on the Times Square subway tracks in Manhattan, and a trench rescue on Seaview and Rockaway in Brooklyn
A lawyer was convicted of having his client's cheating husband gunned down (the wife, who received a $4 million insurance policy, and the hitman were never charged). The lawyer, Manuel Martinez, spent most of the last decade in a Mexican prison on drug charges.
The bank-robbing cop had help from a female teller as he made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Correction of the Year: That bit about a Dalai Lama having sex with hundreds of men and women while knowingly infected with the AIDS virus, and that other part about Buddhist monks dismembering women?--that's totally unsubstantiated.
More changes to Coney Island redevelopment plans would allow owners to develop their own properties if they follow the city's plan.
White shoe law firm Skadden, Arps is launching a pre-law program at City College.
Columbia University facilities worker Veeramuthu Kalimuthu was formally honored at City Hall for jumping off a platform and crossing several tracks to rescue a man who had fallen in the path of an oncoming train.
Queens Crap points out that State Senator Serphin Maltese "never attended one St. Saviour's rally but showed up with a bullhorn to protest the closing of a bowling alley."
A New Rochelle woman has been arrested on animal cruelty charges after she threw her roommate's ferret out of a fourth floor window.