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Photo taken in Midtown by aminTorres on flickr

  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: a jumper down at the Southbay Bridge in Brooklyn, a residential hirise fire at 100th St and Broadway in Manhattan and a foot pursuit on Richmond Terr on Staten Island.
  • John Marchi, the longtime state senator who once led the Staten Island separatist movement, died at 87.
  • Amtrak service between New York and New Haven has been temporarily suspended due to a power outage.
  • Free Williamsburg has an account and pictures from a nasty cycling accident in Williamsburg last night.
  • The lowly unemployed can stop complaining that they have "no marketable skills" once they read about video game testing gigs on Craigslist.
  • Fans began lining up for tickets to go see one local baseball team that hasn't heard any complaints about its ticket prices, the Brooklyn Cyclones.
  • And a local mommy blog has a stop motion animation video that rivals the stork when it comes to adorable notions of where babies come from.

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the lady in the photo is the guardian angel of 39th street, everyday as i walk to my office she's there, with her coffee, bagel and rosary. one of the people that makes nyc nyc. http://designtrust.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-morning-commute-ii.html

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