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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A car into building on Ann Street on Staten Island, a bank robbery at 2nd Ave & 48th St and a scaffolding incident on 20th Dr in Brooklyn.
Robert McNamara, secretary of defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, died at age 93. The NY Times writes, he was "perhaps the most influential defense secretary of the 20th century, who helped lead the nation into the maelstrom of Vietnam and spent the rest of his life wrestling with the war’s moral consequences." McNamara was also the subject of a documentary by Errol Morris, The Fog of War.
Mayor Bloomberg uses off-duty cops (who volunteered!) in his new TV ads—the cops are from the 27th Precinct, which doesn't really exist, except on Law and Order. Chung-chung!
A woman is suing a Bronx club because another clubgoer allegedly assaulted her when she refused to dance with him.
Police are looking for a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in Queens last week.
Keep your shades lowered at the Standard Hotel when you're "completely naked and prancing around near the window." Or not.
The mysterious life and death of an immigrant in a NJ immigration jail.
An 18-year-old died from drowning in Jamaica Bay. He and his cousin had been fishing; a good Samaritan managed to fish out the cousin. The water had drop off from 3 feet to 13 feet in the area of Howard Beach.
Brooklyn foreclosures were up in the second quarter of this year.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on July 6, 2009 12:01 PM

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Reflect

Mayor Bloomberg uses off-duty cops (who volunteered!) in his new TV ads—the cops are from the 27th Precinct, which doesn't really exist, except on Law and Order. Chung-chung!

This guy is a piece. Its law that you cant use government workers and buildings in a political ad. So leading the public to believe there real is wrong also. And the cops though off duty are still cops! I never vote unless I hate you enough not to be there. This is one guy Im gonna do that for. Get out B! Just because crime is down on the Upper East Side does not mean its down in all of NYC.

jaycjay

"A woman is suing a Bronx club because another clubgoer allegedly assaulted her when she refused to dance with him."

Glad to see the surveillance camera photos are clear enough that someone could identify him. I saw this in the post, and was thinking that the small, blurry black and white shot they printed wasn't even worth the trouble.