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saturday cycling by rhodamine at flickr

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A pedestrian was struck at 15th Ave And College Point Blvd in Queens, a person was struck by a train at West 225 Street and Broadway in the Bronx and a large crowd/gang activity at West Drive and 72nd Street in Central Park in Manhattan.
Use the future free Ikea ferry to head to the Red Hook ball field vendors!
Grad-school tuition down the drain: Lawyer Joseph Corozzo Jr. isn't allowed to defend his own dad (who is a reputed mobster) on organized crime charges.
Moving on to media mafia, the "media wedding of the year" between the Observer's Spencer Morgan (MASH's Harry Morgan's grandson) and Vanity Fair's Alexis Bryant (aka Anna Wintour's boyfriend's daughter) was in Houston.
Up in Harlem at 11th Ave. and 134th Sts, lions are guarding a future restaurant.
An Ecuadorean man who traveled to NY for a UN conference was stabbed so badly in Peekskill he can't return home for six weeks.
And a City Council member is suggesting Con Ed sell Long Island City waterfront property instead of hiking rates.