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Mr. Met Blends In, by carryboo at flickr
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian was struck on 41st St. and 8th Ave. in Manhattan, someone found a grenade on Pitkin Ave. in Brooklyn, and a hostage situation on Oval Terrace in the Bronx.
- An 11-year-old boy was arrested after he stabbed a 13-year-old in Mt. Vernon, north of the city.
- Current grasping MTA board members are pikers compared to Port Authority officials in the 1970s, who took their wives on world tours under the guise of agency business.
- A 26-year-old man from the Bronx ran up and down Park Ave. on the Upper East Side yesterday afternoon groping the breasts of almost ten women.
- The Feds are stepping up efforts to ensure construction site safety standards are being met.
- The New York Times doesn't consider rap artists' stage names legitimate. Other actors and musicians are allowed to use made-up monikers.
- Former NY Giant Michael Strahan will be joining Fox as a broadcaster.
- Ron Perelman and his ex-wife Patricia Duff are still at it, with Perelman backing his daughter's suit to distance herself from her mom, who she says is emotionally abusive.
- Bling artist Jacob the Jeweler was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for not cooperating in a police investigation.
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