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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: An unusual rescue on Pearl Street in Manhattan, a homemade explosive on East 138th St in the Bronx, and an aircraft emergency at JFK Airport.
• The McGreeveys are back in court to battle over whether or not the former NJ governor can afford to pay alimony.
• A newly-launched teaser website for a Madison Square development designed by architect Rem Koolhaas (think "zigzag units" and "balconies that stretch across multiple floors").
• If you're pregnant, you're eligible for free ice cream at Baskin-Robbins (no word if sonograms will be required).
• No more haircuts with bottled water--water has returned to some buildings on West 57th Street.
• A Brooklyn man was found guilty of killing his uncle when he drove "his car into a tree on Long Island while high on marijuana."
• The new editor of the Wall Street Journal is Rupert Murdoch's BFF Robert Thomson.
• And is the R. Kelly trial making Chicago a "laughingstock"\? Maybe, but we desperately wish it were being held in NYC.