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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: an armed robbery at 7-11 on Metropolitan Ave in Queens, falling debris at Marcy and Willoughby Aves in Brooklyn and a water rescue off Surf Ave in Brooklyn.
- Billy Mays, the infomercial pictchman well-known for his boisterous selling of products such as Oxiclean, was found dead at age 50 in his Tampa Bay home. There were no sings of foul play.
- Two small children suffered serious injuries when a car hit the vehicle they were in as their mother was making a U-turn at a Copiague intersection.
- A Brooklyn principal under investigation for allegedly soaking the Department of Education for unearned overtime and unauthorized absences is now planning to parlay a foundation-funded field trip to Miami into an unapproved vacation.
- The Post says NYU plans to add 6 million square feet of space by 2031—development that may include a 40-story residential tower, the tallest in the Village.
- Iranian authorities have detained British Embassy workers. The European Union is demanding for their immediate release, because "harassment or intimidation" will be met with a "strong collective" response.
- Bo Obama rides a wave: The popularity of Portuguese water dogs has tripled in the past few years—apparently there were just 15 registered in NYC back in 2007, and now there are 45.
- And officials in a Catskills town are frowning on a school for giving shot glasses to students as party favors at a recent high school prom.
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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What is going with big names dying in June!?
OMG Billy Mays died. I'm wiping the tears with my Sham Wow.
There are 2 Portuguese Water Dogs in my building! I had never even seen one before the Obama dog. They are sweet if a bit hyper. Kind of seem like nicer poodles.
Seems to me NYU and Columbia would be the perfect entities to approach to fill space in the new WTC. We're always hearing that Lower Manhattan can't absorb all that new commercial space, and those schools are always expanding. It's a match made in Heaven.