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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: An unusual fire at 72nd St & Madison Ave in Manhattan, a triple shooting on Sands Street in Brooklyn, and injured LIRR workers at Sutphin Blvd & 93 Ave in Queens.
  • A little girl was killed by a car when she sat in her Radio Flyer wagon, which went down her home's steep driveway and into the Montauk Highway.
  • Brooklyn would like a way to get to Governor's Island directly, versus going through Manhattan.
  • copyranter notes that Broadway and Howard is more...colorful, thanks to the impending opening of another American Apparel store.
  • Astronaut--and Mets fan--Mike Massamino took a home plate from a 2007 game into orbit after fellow astronaut and Yankees fan Garrett Reisman took some Yankee stadium dirt into space.
  • News flash: Whitney Houston is NOT performing in Bay Ridge.
  • A pilot, simulating a WWI dog fight, nosedived and died during an air-show in Dutchess County; the FAA is now investigating.

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