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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: Person on the tracks at Union Square subway station in Manhattan, a suspicious package at Beach 50th St & Rockaway Beach Blvd in Queens, and two-alarm fire at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
  • Two buses crashed on Route 80 in NJ earlier today; one was a bus from Chinatown, headed to Niagara Falls.
  • An NYU student from Dix Hills was stabbed near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Aashish Shah, who was released from the hospital, was injured when intervening with men robbing a fellow volunteer's purse.
  • Goldman Sachs has blocked its employees from accessing Facebook.
  • The Daily News really wants Obama to pick Hillary Clinton as his VP.
  • Someone(s) is throwing rocks at drivers in Queens.
  • Is Supernanny the next reality show to come to town? The show's casting team is "currently searching specifically for families from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island to be featured on their own episode in the brand new fifth season."
  • The mysterious "Bay Ridge Hum" that has kept residents up at night has been silenced...for now.

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Someone(s) is throwing rocks at drivers in Queens. maybe it's Brett Favre???

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