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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A pedestrian struck on Coney Island Ave in Brooklyn, a hanging on Lurting Ave in the Bronx and a hazmat at W 40 St in Manhattan.
- Police were fired upon when they responded to calls of a dispute in Queens. WABC 7 reports the "movie-style shootout between police and a half dozen suspects" in Cambria Heights ended with the suspects taken into custody.
- State Senator Hiram Monserrate has hired Joseph Tacopina to defend him against assault charges. Tacopina's previous clients include Lillo Brancato Jr., Foxy Brown and Bernard Kerik.
- The city is trying once again to convert Catholic schools to charter schools.
- Brooklyn Paper's headline about the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens' Cherry Blossom Festival: "Cherries are popping at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden."
- NJ officials are looking for remains of a dolphin in the Navesink River; it's unclear if the dolphin was part of the group that spent many months there.
- The NY State Lottery still has a fever for Powerball.
- Real estate marketing firm president says of the Financial District's prospects, "In my mind, this is still one of the largest concentrations of wealth in the world."
- A quiz to see just how Long Island you are. Sample questions (with multiple choice answers provided): " Which shopping mall does not have a movie theater in it?"
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Love the photo, but is this what it's come to with free samples at the bakery counter? We have to come to them, hat in hand, and humbly ask permission to take a little piece of cookie that's no doubt been pawed over by countless other hands?... Oh wait, that's not a cookie.
"movie-style shootout between police and a half dozen suspects"
Odd that they start the article that way, because the rest of it implies that other than the cops, only one person was armed and fired shots.
May I touch your gecko please?
a hanging on Lurting Ave in the Bronx
A hanging???