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From the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on University Pl in Manhattan, a shooting at Vermont and Pitkin Aves in Brooklyn and a water condition at E 46th St and 5th Ave.
A civilian employee of the NYPD who did forensics investigations was found stabbed to death in her Sunnyside apartment.
The Bronx teacher who threatened to blow up his school Friday spoke out today, saying that he was doing so to bring attention to teachers getting placed in "rubber rooms."
The Post goes looking for some of the last remaining after hours joints.
Brooklyn Bridge Park announced its "Movies with a View" lineup for this summer.
Fox is opting not to air President Obama's primetime press conference later this week.
Andrea Peyser is horrified at the new young adult novel Castration Celebration.
Local comedian Reggie Watts provided us with one of the more unusual and engaging stand-up performances we've seen on TV in a while with his set on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
And on Jeff Goldblum's debut last night on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, his character effortlessly explained the difference between an MC and a rapper while comforting a dead hipster's parents that their son wasn't wasting his life away in Williamsburg.

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[1] | mosx

What's been going on in Sunnyside? First a shooting this morning and now a woman stabbed to death in her apartment?

Reply | April 27, 2009 10:25 PM

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[2] | jpeditor

"Andrea Peyser is horrified at the new young adult novel Castration Celebration."

Gothamist would be agreeing with Peyser if the victim were female...

Reply | April 28, 2009 3:48 AM

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[3] | Mr Mel

"Fox is opting not to air President Obama's primetime press conference later this week."

Another example of "fair and balanced"

Reply | April 28, 2009 8:25 AM

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jpeditor replied to comment from Mr Mel

"Another example of "fair and balanced".

I guess like all good obamunists you need to control the media, and tell them what they must cover.

And where were you when ABC didn't cover one of Bush's pressers? Too busy carrying flag–draped coffins in the streets encouraging jihadists to kill more Americans?

Hot tip for you,comrade: More Americans watch FNC than CNN & MSNBC COMBINED...

Reply | April 29, 2009 2:15 AM

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[4] | Mr Mel

"Andrea Peyser is horrified at the new young adult novel Castration Celebration."

She shouldn't be that upset, she can't be castrated.

Reply | April 28, 2009 8:27 AM

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[5] | HowBoutDemCowboys

Reggie Watts is awesome!

Reply | April 28, 2009 9:36 AM

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