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Photograph of the undercover NYPD cruiser-taxi by jezblog on Flickr

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A gas leak with evacuations near Crotona Ave & E 182 St in the Bronx, a serious trauma at Spring & 6th in Manhattan and an armed perp at PS 108 in Brooklyn.
An Italian tourist fought off a knife-wielding attacker by grabbing the knife by the blade; she told the Post, "I preferred to be without fingers instead of dying."
Yuppie-hating East Villagers, don't blame Bruno (aka Bruce Willis) for gentrifying the hood with the Bowery Wine Company--he isn't even an owner, just a celebrity who was nice enough to lend his name to the real owners!
Lawmakers and the airline industry don't think the Bush administration's plan to auction air space will work.
Sure, Tim Russert's funeral was today, but Gawker digs up an old Vanity Fair piece written by his wife Maureen Orth that might be why Arianna Huffington hates Russert.
New trees were planted in Seba Avenue Park; the original newly planted trees had been snapped in half in February.
Apparently Anne Hathaway's dad didn't approve of her ex-boyfriend, the Italian dude with the questionable finances.=
And Alain Robert, who climbed the NY Times Building two weeks ago, climbed a building in Frankfurt, Germany today. But since the Dresdner Bank was not built to look exactly like a ladder, Robert wore a harness.