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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A barricaded EDP on 120 St in Queens, a self-inflicted gunshot wound at W 42 St & 11th Ave in Manhattan and a stabbing at Flatbush & DeKalb Aves in Brooklyn.
- Mayor Bloomberg vetoed a bill lifting city residency requirements for civil servants.
- A Stamford police officer allegedly punched a woman in the forehead for driving without a license. According to the AP, "Stamford police say they haven't received a formal complaint against Officer Gregory Zach, but they began investigating anyway because the incident is serious."
- Friends and family said good-bye to one of the workers who died when trapped in a toxic gas-filled sewage hole.
- Nassau police are warning residents that itinerant con men are duping homeowners by pretending to by landscapers or contractors and luring residents to their backyards—giving accomplices time to ransack homes.
- State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. says even he knows that entering Senate chambers—in search of caffeine—means you'll be counted towards the attendance.
- Buy a condo in Prospect Heights and get a Toyota Prius!
- Midtown Lunch swoons over the "Roast Pig Over Rice" dish at Hing Won: "Every bite had the perfect 1 to 1 ratio of meat to fat, and that little crunchy bit on the end just takes the whole thing exactly where you are hoping it will go."
- Joe the Plumber is not running for Congress, because Joe "talked to God about that and he was like, 'No.'"
- There's a movie in the works called Columbus Circle: "A reclusive heiress in an upscale Manhattan apartment building...is brought face-to-face with her fears when a detective shows up to investigate a homicide next door and a new couple moves in to that apartment."
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