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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: potentially related shootings on E. 4th and Stanton St. in Manhattan, a barricaded EDP on Lafayette Ave. in Brooklyn and a fall victim on 47th and 6th in Manhattan.

• Expect a few 404s: the Port Authority has launched wtcprogress.com where people can go to track the status on construction at the WTC site.

• The FBI is digging at a site in Long Island where two mobsters are buried in hopes of finding the body of a 21-year-old college student who disappeared in 1994 and is believed to have been murdered in a revenge hit.

• A Hindu mother and Muslim father are butting heads over the cremation of their late son.

• A 6-year-old autistic boy was left strapped in on a Yonkers school bus for an entire school day.

• Police are investigating the death of a 31-year-old Brazilian priest whose body was found on the shore of Brighton Beach after having been strangled.

• A maintenance worker died when he fell 30 feet and hit his head on a garbage compactor while working yesterday in a building near Grand Central Station.

• Eleven employees of the New York City Opera's administrative side were laid off, underscoring budget worries.

• Something about this feels like Opposite Day: a proposal is on the table to turn suburban New Jersey's Izod Center into a film house once the Nets leave to come to downtown Brooklyn.