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2008_08_lic.jpgPhotograph of 49th Ave in Long Island City by Genial23 on Flickr

  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: an overturned vessel at Sandy Hook Pilot Station on Staten Island, a missing child on Glenwood Rd in Brooklyn, and a shooting at Dekalb Ave in Brooklyn.

  • A 20-year-old Golden Gloves champ was shot dead in the Bronx after an altercation at a bodega.

  • The Coast Guard calls off the search for a Bronx girl lost in the Niagara River.

  • Brooklyn wants its fair share when it comes to easy access to nearby Governor's Island.

  • Curmudgeons in Prospect Park are nothing new: complaint letters to the editor about the park from the nineteenth century.

  • Not everyone is excited about the new Heath Ledger-owned bar coming to the hip epicenter of Brooklyn.

  • A pigeon found in Queens playground was unable to fly because it had been painted purple.

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Heath Ledger is dead. He won't be opening any bars here in NYC or Brooklyn. Little newsflash there

Nice picture of Hunters Point Avenue by the 7 train. Durning the rush hour this place is really busy and doing the weekends it sometimes look like a ghost town there.

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