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From the Gothamist Newsmap: Falling bricks at 63rd Street in Brooklyn, a shooting a 181st Street and Arthur Ave in the Bronx, and a downed tree at 251 Street and Northern Boulevard in Queens.
A woman jumped in front of an A train at the 42nd Street-8th Avenue stop, killing herself and delaying service on five subway lines.
Elizabeth Hasselbeck is moving her brood to an swank Upper West Side condo, which makes sense, since the View's studios are also off the 1 line.
Community Board 11 in Queens voted down the landmarking an extension of the Douglaston historic district. Apparently 80% of the residents in the area were against it.
The Broadway actor who was seriously injured before a matinee of The Little Mermaid had surgery to his wrists; Adrian Bailey also suffered compressed vertebrae.
A Kosher soup kitchen in Brooklyn even serves steaks--and seconds on the steaks!
And death toll has been rising exponentially from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the Sichuan province of China. The current estimate is over 7,000 fatalities.

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By Jen Chung in News on May 12, 2008 11:13 AM

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sonyactivision

Hasselbeck is nothing. She's just on The View to hold up slutty tops above that shitty table.

jaja007

Great news on that Earthquake. That and the typhoon in Myanmar is a sign that God is getting rid of a bunch of useless eaters.

AnonEMouse

How sad & miserable must your life be to end it all by jumping in front of a train?

So tragic...

joshing

Elizabeth Hasselbeck is moving her brood to an swank Upper West Side condo, which makes sense, since the View's studios are also off the 1 line.

LMAO! I'm sure Hasselbeck rides the subway as much as her political views coincide with the majority of her Upper West Side neighbors.

eyekantspel

the link for the A train suicide woman is to the unicycle picture on flikr.

jack9

The link in the entry "A woman jumped in front of an A train at the 42nd Street-8th Avenue stop, killing herself and delaying service on five subway lines." is to the flickr page for the orange pants guy at the top of the story, not anything about the subway suicide.