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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: a person struck by the train on E 149th St and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, an MVA/entrapment at Bushwick Ave and Hancock St in Brooklyn and a bicyclist struck at Broadway and Weirfield Rd in Brooklyn.
  • Connecticut's attorney general says that AIG paid $218 million (53 million more than thought) in bonuses.
  • A Connecticut biologist warned state officials nearly five months ago that a 200-pound chimpanzee who mauled a woman last month could seriously hurt someone if he felt threatened.
  • A woman was dragged by her hair in an attack during a carjacking at Walt Whitman Mall on Long Island.
  • A lawsuit filed by a former student at the famous boarding school Miss Porter's claims she was driven to a nervous breakdown by constant harassment from a secret society of girls who call themselves the Oprichniki, taking their nickname from a 16th-century Russian torture squad.
  • The Congressional Budget Office calculated that the White House’s tax and spending plans would create deficits totaling $2.3 trillion more than the president’s budget projected for the next decade.
  • Mets starter John Maine continues to struggle mightily in spring training.
  • And did one of Jim Cramer's CNBC partners-in-crime make one pretty accurate market prediction on Citigroup by accident in 2007?

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I still miss pre-ironic, pre-hipster New York.

And sometimes bare walls.

Does anyone else find it strange that Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson are married? WTF?

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