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• Gothamist Newsmap: A home invasion robbery at 87nd St & Colonial Rd in Brooklyn, an abduction at Edgecombe Ave & W 141 St in Manhattan and an officer struck by a vehicle at E 225th St & White Plains Rd in the Bronx.
• The city ended a 25-year-old legal battle with the Legal Aid Society--now the city will recognize the homeless have a right to emergency shelter while court oversight is removed from the city's homeless services.
• On Tuesday night, the FDNY saved a pregnant woman who was drowning in the water off Battery Park.
• After chasing a motorcyclist who was going more than 100 mph on a thruway, the police finally caught up to him when he ran out of gas.
• You can't stop and smell the roses if you're not allowed to have planters outside your Carroll Gardens home!
• A federal appeals court reinstated the jury verdict that found the "Mafia Cops"--two veterans detectives who worked for the mob--guilty of conspiracy.
• Well, have you ever... Microsoft is dropping Jerry Seinfeld from its ads because people don't like him/get the ads.
• The Navy intercepted a submarine-like vessel with 6 tons of cocaine near Costa Rica.