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Photo taken in the East Village by juanamarie on flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: a crane incident on 6th Ave and 31st St, a gas line struck at Richmond and Genesee Aves on Staten Island and a court officer injured on 6th St in Brooklyn.
An R Train Operator used her uniform jacket to catch a baby this afternoon when a woman gave birth right in the subway car at the Whitehall Station.
Suffolk County Police have arrested three people for endangering the welfare of a child after two children were assaulted and a third was found to be living in filth.
After hearing about a New Yorker's experience with donating a kidney on This American Life, a Pittsburgh woman agreed to donate a kidney to a Brooklyn man. The surgery is planned for the end of the month.
The New York Post sent Sunny the Clown up to Senate Chambers in Albany to pose for pictures with lawmakers saying that she wanted to join the circus.
The State Assembly moved forward on a proposal by Sheldon Silver to keep NYC school controls in the hands of Mayor Bloomberg.
Former NBA ref Tim Donaghy, who will be released from prison after serving a sentence for gambling on gamed he officiated, claims he was beaten up by a fellow inmate with mob ties.
Maybe Steve-Nash-to-the-Knicks speculation will pick up if the team asks David Letterman to keep tossing him funny correspondent segments like this one.
Time to send that periodic table t-shirt to the tailor: scientists have discovered a super-heavy new element, Number 112.
Family members of David Carradine announced that the forensics expert they hired to conduct an autopsy on the late actor has confirmed that his death was not a suicide.
And Gwyneth Paltrow has apparently decided that it's time for the Piano Man to grow up and lose that boyish nickname he's been using for all these years.