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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: severed toes on 118th St. and 3rd Ave. in Manhattan, snake in a basement on 48th St. in Brooklyn, and a missing swimmer off Orchard Beach in the Bronx.
  • Friday marked the groundbreaking ceremony of an eco-friendly community center in Brooklyn's Marine Park.
  • A Rikers corrections officer admitted that in 2005 he turned off a surveillance camera to protect a fellow officer who was administering a beating to an inmate.
  • Mayor Bloomberg acknowledged that his six-week-old proposal to give New Yorkers a 7% property tax cut may no longer be feasible.
  • NY Giants quarterback Eli Manning and his brother Peyton hosted a Father's Day football tournament today in Chelsea with their father Archie Manning.
  • Expedia is running tv ads for visits to NYC at $58 a night. The grim details of what $58 a night will get you in the way of lodging.
  • A Long Island physician was arrested for installing a hidden camera in his office bathroom. Employees became suspicious when the Spy Store sent the invoice for the item to the office.
  • Park Slope moms get uncomfortable with a nanny who was dancing provocatively in Park Slope's Harmony Playground.

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eek! severed toes? not a good way to spend a saturday afternoon.

I stayed in a shitty hotel in Erie, PA for 40 bucks.

do you expect to have a nice hotel in nyc for 40 bucks?

jesus stop complaining.

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