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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a fourth alarm collapse on E Broadway in Manhattan, a child struck at Sheridan Ave and 165th St in The Bronx and a stolen box truck at Pulse to Jewel on Staten Island.
- While playing on her Brooklyn school's rooftop garden, a girl fell through a skylight—luckily, she survived the 30 foot fall.
- Rep. Steve Israel has decided not to run against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary next year; PolitickerNY suggests that Chuck Schumer's warnings have paid off.
- The Montauk Monster sequel might be a raccoon. Or not.
- The NYPD has found more of that bizarre Nazi runic graffiti in Brooklyn.
- The NY Building Congress says that the recession has cost the construction industry almost 20,000 jobs.
- The NY Times Company has asked the staff of the International Herald Tribune to donate their unused vacation days or 5% of their salary to the company. You know, to avoid layoffs.
- A NY Times economics reporter has penned an article for the Times Magazine about how he went into foreclosure.
- And after a busy day being called the oldest person tweeting by a British paper, 104-year-old Ivy Bean told the world that she needed a little rest.
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