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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a water main break at Evergreen and Greene Aves. in Brooklyn, a shooting on Sterling and Nostrand Aves. in the Bronx, and medical waste on the beach on Plum Beach in Brooklyn.
If a kid was eight years old, he would double dog dare you to press your face against this super-creepy grate in Brooklyn.
A judge decided $24 mn would settle the insane contaminated pet food lawsuit that originated with last year's pet panic.
Now that drunk-hookin'-up-accused-rapist Councilman Dennis Gallagher's seat is open, the knives are out. Democrat Elizabeth Crowley has accepted the nomination, but the endorsement of the Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens is infuriating other activists, since Crowley opposes gay marriage.
Upper West Side resident freaks out and attacks mailman.
The free market in action: high gas prices lead to a shortage in the supply of bicycles. Response and adaptation expected.
NCAA basketball coach Jim Calhoun is undergoing treatment for a second bout of squamous cell skin cancer.
In addition to the massive humanitarian disaster that is the result of the Sichuan, China earthquake, a panda bear reserve is also in need of desperate help. Donate to any and all causes if you can.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on May 30, 2008 6:15 PM

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Antonio

That mailman got George Costanza'd in my opinion. That upper westie sent a romantic snail mail to a fellow tenant, realized that he came off like Jon Favreau leaving that answering machine message in Swingers and tried to destroy his future humiliation.