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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a found grenade on Melrose Ave, a jumper down on Burnside Ave and a smoke condition at the Hunts Point Station, all in The Bronx.
- 228 people are still missing and feared to be dead after an Air France flight traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went off the grid and disappeared over the Atlantic. (The Post's immediate headline: 'Lost')
- The longest-serving inmate in NYS history died today after 46 years behind bars for a 1962 Brooklyn robbery.
- Brooklyn's mysterious Vermont Market and Pharmacy appears to be on its way to soon serving egg creams once again.
- Style Wars graffiti legend CAP was denounced by his old Morris Park Crew in a timely eight-page newsletter as a "jealous toy" who simply wanted fame.
- The Hipster Grifter will be watching the NBA Finals from a Utah jail cell.
- Here's how to read the Wall Street Journal online for free.
- How hard is it to get a reservation at Momofuku Ko? Owner David Chang's father couldn't get in for a year.
- Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg are giving $10 million to the High Line park project; the first section will open this month.
- And Brian Lehrer, WNYC radio host and lover of Twitter, is now using Facebook to break news: his bike got stolen!
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