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Anticipation, by Noslen13 at flickr

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A pedestrian struck at Washington Ave At Lincoln Pl in Brooklyn, a water rescue in Queens and a perp search at 14th Street and Union Square in Manhattan.
A local community board voted to approve the city's plan for Willets Point redevelopment, but it's unclear how the City Council will receive the plan.
Commercial building vacancies are up 7.1%, yet rents are still going up.
Newark is using surveillance cameras to help deter and spot crime; cameras have been credited with a 50% drop in crime in East Orange.
A Levittown man shot off his fingertip--he had brought his gun to the Nassau County Police Headquarters for gun inspection.
In the upcoming Candace Bushnell (she wrote Sex and the City and Lipstick Jungle) novel, One Fifth, one of the characters is tormented by a Gawker writer's posts. The real One Fifth is located just north of Washington Square Park.
The woman who accused former City Councilman Dennis Gallagher of sexual assault is now filing a civil suit against him.
Another F-U to Spitzer: The AG's office dropped it case against former NYSE head Dick Grasso.
Radar takes us down memory lane with a brief history of blog feuds.