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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: Truck vs. tracks on Eastchester Road in the Bronx, a child burn victim on E 52nd in Brooklyn and a traffic agent assaulted at E 91 & 2nd Ave in Manhattan.
• The saga of GerritsenBeach.net's tango with Brooklyn developer Stephen Jemal continues--the website was asked by Jemal's lawyers to take down a post (claiming defamation--it mentioned how Jemal was being sued for non-payment of a loan). And Jemal's lawyers apparently said the DOS attack on GerritsenBeach.net was the work of a "renegade employee" who was later fired.
• The Serbian foreign minister said wanted upstate attack suspect Miladin Kovacevic will not be extradited to the U.S. since there is no extradition policy to the U.S.
• Amtrak ridership is up 3% in the Northeast.
• The president of a pool company was charged with manslaughter after a Connecticut 6-year-old drowned, due to the pool's suction drain that did not follow pool safety codes.
• A judge is considering whether to release almost all the grand jury testimony from the Julius & Ethel Rosenberg case.
• The MetLife Insurance building near Madison Square Park will have its Clock Tower interiors designed by Versace.
• Jacques Torres talks to Restaurant Girl: "Chocolate is a magic product. It used to be the food of the gods. Chocolate used to be the beverage you drank when you spent the first night with your wife. Chocolate was the drink before you went to war to give you courage."