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Photograph taken outside a Queens supermarket by Harris Graber on Flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: A barricaded EDP on 17th Street in Brooklyn, police activity on Columbia Street at East 7th Street in Manhattan, and a CO incident at 77 Street in Queens.
The Manhattan ADA who threw a case because he thought the defendants weren't guilty (in the 1990 Palladium bouncer killing) will not be disciplined.
A judge has denied the appeal of men convicted of plotting to attack Fort Dix.
Navy Green, a mixed-use development across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, may be ready for construction by the end of the year.
The New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association launched a radio campaign against Governor Paterson's planned closings of four minimum security prisons.
Whoa: Hoboken residents could see a property tax hike of up to 50%. Apparently a state monitor that a lot of the city's surplus was missing, so she instated the tax hike.
Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show, tells Daily Intel she'd still live in NY on $35K/year: "Yes, I would live here even if I had to blow guys to make the rent."
The NY Post has an editorial praising Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler for chasing a group of teens who mugged a woman.
Kristen Stewart will play Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning will portray Cheri Currie in a film about the Runaways.
And President Obama's graying hair is analyzed by the NY Times.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on March 5, 2009 12:03 PM

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famdoc

Re: the story about Deputy Mayor Skyler catching a thief and recovering some woman's Blackberry. Would we really consider him such a hero if he was injured in the scuffle?

Is a Blackberry really worth the risk? Should the woman who was using the Blackberry have been watching where she was walking rather than texting while she was walking to the Port Authority? The Blackberry is contributing almost as much to the downfall of civility as eight years of George Bush.