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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: An unusual rescue at Newtown Creek DEP Facility At Greenpoint And Kingsland Avenues in Brooklyn, a traffic agent struck on Port Richmond Rd on Staten Island and an EDP in transit at 32nd St And 7th Ave in Manhattan.
- The battle for NY State Senate control is on, and one poll says Democrats could seize the majority.
- A second person with Legionnaire's has died at a New Brunswick, NJ hospital.
- More about the 5-year-old stranded by the bus: The Good Samaritan who brought him back to the school was waiting at the bus stop because the bus hadn't stopped there the day before!
- Two Munchkins and a cruller: A man pleaded guilty to not wearing pants (and exposing his business) at a drive-thru Dunkin' Donuts in Yorktown.
- Five suspected gun traffickers were arrested in Brooklyn and Queens; cops bought almost 40 weapons from them.
- A NJ farm has a giant pumpkin catapult because some middle school students and their teacher built the device to see how the physics of catapults worked.
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