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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 matinĂ©e 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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an unusual crime - child handcuffed on 137th Ave. in Queens

I'd sure like to know the details of that!

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