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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: building collapse with fire on Nostrand Ave. and Prospect Pl. in Brooklyn, a sex assault on Ave. P and 12th St. in Brooklyn, and downed wires 84th St. and Dry Harbor Rd. in Queens.
- Attorney General Andrew Cuomo held a secret grand jury "to consider bringing criminal charges" in the Troopergate scandal.
- Everything from flour to white paper bags is costing pizza men their white shirts.
- Mariah Carey is planning a second wedding in NYC--it will reportedly have 2,000 guests, but it's unclear if it'll have 50 flower girls, the way her 1993 wedding to Tommy Mottola did.
- Bees may disappearing or just headed to a neighborhood near you: Thousands more bees swarm, this time on the Upper West Side.
- A girl on her way to school was struck by an ambulance responding to a call at Coney Island Ave. and 19th St. She was declared dead at the scene but is now in critical condition.
- Like some college girlfriends, they react to movement and conversation, but you can't touch them; ever. Technology imitates art and life.
- Less church and state than church and taste, a CT town managed to get its Christmas decorations down by Memorial Day.
- He didn't ask to "Pass the Courvoisier": An armed robber knocked off a Jersey City liquor store last night, demanding cash and the store's stock of Hennessy.
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