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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A barricaded situation on Ditmas Blvd in Queens, an unusual motor vehicle accident on Union St & Brooklyn Ave and an all hand fires at Bay St at Canal St on Staten Island.
• The vendors did make it back to Red Hook ballfields this weekend.
• After hitting a 9-year-old girl, a driver reportedly yelled at her, "You stupid little bitch!" before driving off. The girl is in critical condition.
• A fire shut down the grandstand at Belmont Park yesterday.
• Men posing as cops robbed a Staten Island home. They were apparently wearing police uniforms, had silver badges, and carried at least one gun.
• A NJ man caused an explosion when he was spraying bug spray in his house.
• Parks advocates want the city to test the pavements and equipments at playgrounds, because in this summer weather, they are getting dangerously hot.
• Jeremiah's Vanishing New York examines some old vestiges of NYC from the movie, Moscow on the Hudson.