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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A sexual assault at Johnson Ave & Humboldt St in Brooklyn, a suspicious package at Pennyfield Ave At Casler Pl in the Bronx and an unusual rescue at the Hodges / Marine Parkway Bridge in Queens.
  • When a motorist got annoyed at the driver of a double parked car, the double parked driver cut him off at the next light, and got out of the car with a switchblade.
  • Consider us spooked: The Star-Ledger says the Asian swamp eel can change its sex, remain burrowed in mud without food for weeks, and "crawl ashore and walk to a more suitable environment."
  • The Department of Investigation suspended licenses of two construction workers who removed a platform's guardrail which led to a worker's fatal 40-story floor at a West 42nd Street site.
  • Nassau County reveals 56 new additions to the Wall of Shame.
  • Is Drew Barrymore a cougar-in-training? 'Cause Daily Intel saw her making out with Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick.
  • Madame Tussaud's now has a wax statue of Giants quarterback Eli Manning.
  • And what's the point of bus lanes when they are blocked?
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  • NannyState

    God, don't close the Star-Ledger down while it blows the lid off Asian Swamp Eels.

  • JenChungsBaby

    It's the GIL Hodges Bridge, named after the late baseball player from Brooklyn.

  • Flanny

    Double Parking literally chokes the life out of this city on a daily basis. What does the NYPD do? Nothing.

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