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17th of May Parade, by vipnyc at flickr
  • 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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  • amsci

    That dog is amazing.

  • Dave Hogarty

    A brown bear escaped from the zoo! And a Viking has harnessed it to pull him around town. That is badass.

  • nik13

    Economy is so awful, P. Diddy's guests are expected to bring their own beverage to the party?



    Norwegians have a parade & it doesn't make news? Couldn't those descendants of Vikings ravish, or at least grope some local maidens? Puerto Ricans would've known what to to.

  • sonyactivision

    It's heartwarming to see that liquor stores still get held up, even in these dry, boring anodyne times.

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