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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery at the Citibank branch on 6th Ave. and 24th St. in Manhattan, an unstable building on the 1600 block of Kings Highway in Brooklyn, and another bank robbery on Atlantic and Schenck Aves. in Brooklyn.
Mayor Bloomberg has written a second book, the latest titled "Do The Hard Things First (And Other Bloomberg Rules for Business and Politics.)" The non-fiction book is scheduled for publication later this year.
The razor blade courtroom attack against a federal prosecutor that was foiled by the defendant's own 72-year-old attorney was caught on tape.
Good Day New York host Ron Corning was fired from WNYW/Ch. 5 without warning while the newsman was on vacation.
The MTA is planning a pilot program to put surveillance cameras in NYC subway cars.
The City is ending its free nicotine patch and gum program to help smokers quit the habit this Thursday.
Construction Safety week continues to encounter trouble after a worker fell 25 feet off a building under construction in Manhattan. Fortunately, the building is being constructed on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital.
The patrolman who cried poor to the press last year regarding rookie pay and how he was going to be evicted from his apartment with his wife and kids has now been stripped of his badge and gun. Ofc. Joseph Harmon was more crooked than broke, issuing dozens of phony summonses to non-existent New Yorkers and sometimes collecting Queens residents' names and addresses to issue fake summonses in the future for things like public intoxication without their knowledge.