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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: a child fatally struck at Rockaway Blvd & Woodhaven Blvd in Queens, a pediatric in respiratory arrest at Audubon Ave and 181st St in Manhattan and a pedestrian struck at Leonard St & Greenpoint Ave in Brooklyn.
  
• The 86-year-old woman who was slashed by a home invasion robber wants to go back home. Her grandson said Vivian Squires is still in the hospital, "She's a little scared and she's angry. But she's also joyful that she's alive."
  
• Two tenants and a building owner are on trial for the deaths of two firefighters. The Bronx DA's office says that subdividing apartments into windowless rooms "created a death trap."
  
• The New York Times says that not only have they ads on their front page before, but they've had them for cocaine. Man, the New York Times is so real.
  
• CNN's medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta was approached to be Surgeon General under President-elect Obama. Gupta is also a practicing neurosurgeon.
  
• The Target in the Atlantic Center gets the undercover treatment from Fucked in Park Slope.
  
• The Nobel Prize Committee might have to consider giving poetry its own category once they get a whiff of Alien vs. Predator.
  
• One of the forefathers of punk rock, Ron Asheton of The Stooges, died in Ann Arbor today.
  
• And Modern Mechanix has a confession from a woman circa 1965: she hates suburbia!