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Photograph of a chess player at Union Square Park by dorkasaurus rex on Flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: A serious assault at E 204st & Villa Ave in the Bronx, a DOA recovery at Beach 14th St in Queens, and a serious MVA on Canal at West St in Manhattan.
Congress will spend $350 million to help fighting pandemics.
Three bodies were recovered after a small plane crashed in the Mohawk River near Albany last night. It appears an Albany hotelier had taken his 11-year-old son and a doctor up for a spin.
Sad: An elderly woman was found dead and her husband injured in what might have been an attempted double suicide. The couple lived in a Jersey City senior citizens home.
Metropolitan Diarist knows of two instances where a mattress was seen on the Grand Central Parkway.
A lawyer is suing American Airlines for putting him on its "no-fly" list after he allegedly tussled with a flight attendant.
Gawker likes how Al Roker went all hard-hitting on...Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag. Roker's Tweet on the couple, "famous for...being infamous. Bad and vacuous behavior. I think we're at minute 11 of their 15."
Patrick Ewing reminded Knick fans last night of just how he rolls when it comes to the NBA Finals.
Midtown Lunch doesn't know how to feel about his favorite Chinese fast food place suddenly selling banh mi.
The Daily News had an extended feature on how the backfire of Roger Clemens's defamation suit will "forever link him" to Oscar Wilde, whose reputation sank in a similar fashion. "Both Clemens and Wilde enjoyed phenomenal professional success, and both had highly publicized relationships with younger lovers, but the similarities seem to stop there."