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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: Homicide inside Prospect Park (Prospect Park SW & 16th Street) in Brooklyn, a shooting on Boston Road in the Bronx, and a foot pursuit on the FDR near 96th Street in Manhattan.
• Bail is being set for a Sopranos actor accused of killing a NYC police officer during a 2005 robbery.
• Somehow there are three $75,000/month rentals on the market.
• NY1 is expanding its coverage of Queens.
• A man died in a freak fishing accident--Newsday reports "his 3-ounce lead sinker came out of the water and hit him in the face and then lodged in his brain."
• This thing that washed up on Montauk is scary-looking.
• The fallout of the Busy Chef identity theft scandal continues, with the closing of Busy Chef, Blue Pig and Oven (all have the same ownership) in Brooklyn Heights.
• And Woody Allen's upcoming movie with Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood is called "Whatever Works."