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- From a Gothamist Newsmap: A bank robbery at 68th St & Lexington Ave in Manhattan, a mobilization at 91 St & Jamaica Ave in Queens and a barricaded perp on Lincoln Ave in Brooklyn.
- A federal appeals court threw out the fine the FCC levied on CBS for Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction.
- The trial begins for the sister-in-law of the murdered orthodontist; she is accused of intimidating the victim's brother by saying, "You should know if you talk, you will be the next to go."
- An Upper East Side church unwittingly hosted a Holocaust denier last week. A group had asked to hear from author David Irving, who was actually sentenced to prison time by an Austrian judge "for denying the existence of gas chambers and the murder of 6 million Jews during World War II in two lectures in 1989."
- Bowery SRO the Sunshine Hotel will stand as is--and not as a renovated-redeveloped -razed testament to gentrification--for another three years.
- A cool video from above the NYC Waterfalls.
- And the Times has a slideshow of photographs from Brooklyn photographer Alex Dejean who has documented life in Harlem for decades.




Great news with the Janet verdict. It wasn't that big a deal.