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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: an inhalation victim at Penn Station, a technical rescue at the United Nations Plaza and a power outage at Mount Sinai Hospital.
- A New Jersey high school had a real "Donna Martin Graduates" situation on their hands where teachers ended up boycotting commencement ceremonies after seniors broke a pledge to keep their prom alcohol-free.
- Yonkers has canceled its Fourth of July fireworks on the Hudson in order to save $100,000.
- A downtown restaurateur told a community board his Lower East Side restaurant would have a "Frank Lloyd Wright style wood beam structure with thick sound dampening glass," but the renderings aren't very Wright—just very woody.
- The NY Times' Clyde Haberman compared Tehran to Albany, "In one place, political developments are being shaped in part by Twitter. In the other, they are shaped by twits."
- In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange, President Obama called on the Huffington Post's Nico Pitney near the start of his press conference and requested a question directly about Iran.
- "A Bolivian news program has claimed to have the first pictures of what happened aboard Air France flight 447, but they're actually just SCREENCAPS FROM LOST."
- Davonte Kelly, the little leaguer who was hit with a stray bullet a couple weeks back, threw out the ceremonial first pitch at tonight's Mets game.
- Patti LuPone, who has stopped shows in New York and Vegas to berate audience members for taking photos and texting, has fired back at the "very snide" New York Times.
- Joseph Brooks, best known for the Academy Award-winning 1970's hit "You Light Up My Life," was arrested after using his name and career to lure in women on craigslist and then sexually assaulting them.
- And who better to get the scoop on TomKat moving to the East Village than Nat Hentoff?
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