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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on 5th Ave in Brooklyn, a barricaded EDP on Grand St in Manhattan, and a hostage situation on 68th Drive in Queens.
- Mayor Bloomberg donated $150,000 to the State Independence Party--the man sure knows how to say thanks for help with his never-realized presidential campaign.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be coming back to NYC for this fall's U.N. General Assembly. Quick, SNL writers, come up with another digital short!
- Two septuagenarian friends took a roadtrip--on their scooters--across the U.S. along the Lincoln Highway. It took a month to travel the 3,400 miles.
- Those trying to bike down Prince Street this weekend were met with an obstacle, albeit a delicious obstacle -- still, shame on you Mr. Softee!
- NPR is canceling its Bryant Park Project broadcast. The NY Times reports that the last broadcast is expected to be on July 25th, and that it was "an expensive failure — the first-year budget was more than $2 million — and comes at a time when NPR is facing the same financial constraints."
- Rocker Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs branches out into food criticism with a long meditation on what makes Di Fara's pizza so "worthy of genius status."
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