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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a fire victim on Fountain Ave. in Brooklyn, a shooting on Jersey Street on Staten Island, and a person under a train on the B and D Line at 167th St. in the Bronx.
The man who shot the mother of his two children at a NJ YMCA was found in Brooklyn today. Investigators found Kenneth Duckett via a tip.
Peter Cook was diagnosed as a self-absorbed egotist, but a court-appointed psychiatrist said the four-times-married Christie Brinkley could also use some therapy, given her terrible taste in men.
Al Sharpton pleaded not guilty to charges related to when he was arrested for protesting the police shooting of Sean Bell.
A two-year-old girl drowned in a backyard swimming pool in Huntington Station, Long Island.
New York hospital surgical patients suffer from central-line infections at a rate 37% higher than the national average.
New York magazine profiled the real estate agent who transformed Harlem.
And an armed man disguising himself as a security guard robbed a Times Square Western Union branch of $500K and a bunch of Metrocards Sunday.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on July 8, 2008 6:35 PM

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pk4l

=)

I wonder is he going to wire the money to another Western Union to pick it. =)

Jerky

Western Union had $500k on premise? Who the hell uses Western Union anymore, given their absurd fees?

facted

the central line infection article mentions all NYC hopsitals, not just manhattan hospitals.

Dave Hogarty

Note to Western Union bandit: ditch the Metrocards. That is how they'll track you down. Use the $500K to take cabs or better yet, just leave town.

Rocknrope

"And an armed man disguising himself as a security guard robbed a Times Square Western Union branch of $500K and a bunch of Metrocards Sunday."

That's one serious score.