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Photo taken at the St. Antonio Abate Festival in Astoria by brainware3000 on flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Madison Ave and 128th St, a pedestrian struck on 11th Aven and 36th St and an electrical fire from a CO incident on 6th Ave and 12th St, all in Manhattan.
Four pit bulls were found mutilated in Manorville woods on Long Island, one of them discovered with a broken neck.
A former firefighter in Mount Kisco fell to his death while trying to assist the victim of a car accident on Route 23.
With Fourth of July national pride beginning to bubble over, the Post calls for your outrage over Manhattan courtrooms that are not hanging their American flags in the proper positions.
The East Village has won its was against the derogatory depicting of cavemen with the closing of the uniquely-designed Cookout Grill.
Flickr's blog took note of some of the amazing images of the rainbows over Brooklyn Saturday evening.
President Obama suffered a quack attack from a nearby cellphone while giving a speech on gay rights.
Last week's tenth pick, Brandon Jennings, while giving a colorful assessment of last week's NBA draft said, "F*** the Knicks, them n***** is always going to be weak."
Jerry Lewis will make his theatrical directorial debut with the upcoming Broadway adaptation of The Nutty Professor.
Adriana La Cerva heads to Wisteria Lane: Former Sopranos star Drea de Matteo will play the matriarch of an Italian American family on Desperate Housewives.
Chris Brown wasn't allowed on stage as part of a planned tribute to Michael Jackson at the BET Awards, thanks to Jay-Z putting his foot down.
And the only other MJ tribute with worse timing that the US Weekly issue that had already hit the presses when the news hit last week may have been Bruno's.