
- 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.





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