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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: An EDP with a knife at 2nd Ave & E 123rd St in Manhattan, a shooting on Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn and an unusual trauma at the Aqueduct Race Track.
- Brooklyn nuns who have "taught the illiterate, sheltered the homeless and raised orphans" are being sent to other homes or nursing homes because the Convent of Mercy on Willoughby Ave. is closing (it will cost $20 million to fix the building).
- Of the 350 inaugural tickets issued by Senator Schumer's office, 85 are going to New Yorkers and 26 to Long Islanders.
- Citibank says its computers are back up after NY-based customers were unable to access their accounts yesterday.
- In his Playbill bio, Broadway's Shrek star Christopher Sieber (who plays Lord Farquaad) notes that he's never been on Law & Order (we wonder what Dick Wolf would think!).
- Fulton Street goes both ways again.
- If you're buying an apartment and are curious about the wood floors, check the closets.
- And the Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is holding a public conference call to discuss the fate of the wayward dolphins, who are still in a NJ river. According to the Star-Ledger: "The telephone conference call will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., participants can call (800) 369-3371. The passcode is dolphin."





The "never been on law and order" is getting to be an old joke. I saw it in Playbill during Spamalots first month (I can't remember the actor).
the fate of the wayward dolphins, who are still in a NJ river
Let me get my harpoon.
Chris Sieber is great, they really need to get him on L&O pronto!
Sieber was in Spamalot too- it was probably his bio you were reading.