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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A perp search at Manhattan Ave & Leonard St in Brooklyn, a severed limb on Franklin Avenue in Queens, and a RMP accident at 42nd St & 1st Ave in Manhattan.
• The U.S. Attoney's office thinks many NYC apartment developers and landlords violate laws by not having apartments that wheelchair users can live in.
• Pal of Martha Stewart Sam Waksal is out of jail and living in a halfway house in the Bronx.
• Mets' closer Billy Wagner's forearm strain is now elbow pain.
• Rachel Maddow gets a show on MSNBC--she'll be replacing Dan Abrams program.
• A pregnant Times reporter surveys non-alcoholic "mocktails" at some of the fancy cocktail bars around town. One of them "tastes like putting a pebble from a river in your mouth."
• The Vulture wonders, via a chart, WTF is up with Andrew Kuo's charts in the NY Times
• And Krucoff & Co. have a long contentious email interview with literary It-boy Keith Gessen, who accuses Krucoff of not actually reading his novel and declares that "we need to decrease our dependance on oil and gas. Seriously. Right away or we're fucked and it will be the Russians who fuck us and we won't like that at all."