Extra, Extra

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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: a homicide on Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn, a serious accident on the Throgs Neck Expwy in the Bronx and an unusual rescue on Alabama and Atlantic Aves in Brooklyn.

• A crane-hauling-truck crashed into telephone pole yesterday, leaving hundreds of Verizon customers in the Rockaways without service until tomorrow.

• Police had to go all the way down to Virgina to arrest the suspect accused of killing a champion Gold Gloves boxer in the Bronx last month.

• With hipsters moving in and more opportunities available back in their homeland, Poles are fleeing Greenpoint and heading back to Poland.

• Despite having their hours cut in half and receiving a fairly lukewarm reaction from New Yorkers, increased business and visiting while they're running show that tourists do go chasing waterfalls installed around town this summer.

• Staten Islanders are rubbing Belmar Mayor Pringle's face in statistics that show they barely caused any trouble in the town he insulted them in this summer. Maybe in the next newsletter he should go after SI for taking itself too seriously.

• Sopranos star Dominic Chianese was rejected in his offer to sing the national anthem at Yankee Stadium, so he may be taking his act on the road...to Fenway Park!

• A doctor warns David Blaine that his life may truly be full of illusions as a result of his upcoming stunt hanging upside-down above Wollman Rink for three days this week--he could go blind.