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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A manhole fired on W 76th Street in Manhattan, laser sightings seen by LaGuardia Airport air traffic controllers in Queens, and an injured officer on Locust Ave in Brooklyn.
• Heroic: A man scaled his burning Brooklyn apartment building and helped save two people. Unfortunately one person died; the FDNY thinks the fire was started by an extension cord.
• Totally unheroic: Police believe some teens threw fireworks at a home in Staten Island (a fire started, but luckily the 77-year-old homeowner, his wife and dogs managed to get out).
• Glen Cover native Ashanti helped Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi promote Nassau County--they picked up some tourists in NYC and took them to Long Island.
• A Queens grandmother pleaded guilty to being involved in an international sex trafficking ring.
• The ethics investigation into how former Governor Spitzer's administration distributed travel records continues.
• Down by the Hipster looks at a planned Williamsburg bar that was to have Heath Ledger as a partner.
• And City Councilman Peter Vallone supports a local kids' soccer camp, but how does he feel about the graffiti-tagged area they play in?