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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an unusual crime - child handcuffed on 137th Ave. in Queens, a pedestrian struck in front of the Supreme Court Building and Centre St. in Manhattan, and a scaffolding incident at the Trump Complex on West End and 70th St. in Manhattan.
- The Clearview Cinema on the Upper East Side is no longer cutting kids and seniors a break on ticket prices, even for matinée screenings. Everyone now has to pay $12 to see a movie.
- The Bronx Military Museum is looking for a more permanent home, after spending 10 years in the waiting room of a Morris Park funeral home.
- The widow of the State Police Inspector who hanged himself in his home's garage said that she would not have welcomed Gov. Paterson to attend her husband's memorial service.
- The new fine arts center planned for the Brooklyn Navy Yard will feature alternative energy generation capabilities, including solar and wind power.
- Historian Edward Renehan Jr. admitted that he stole letters penned by George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and tried to sell them through a Manhattan gallery for almost $100,000.
- The GTA IV version of Coney Island's slightly flimsy gazebo can withstand any and all abuse.
- The not-going-out-on-a-limb political award of the year should go to State Senator Martin Connor, who represents lower Manhattan and is caught touting his support of congestion pricing: "Congestion pricing -- I supported it. I didn't tell anybody; I didn't take a position on it. I supported it."
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