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Photo taken in Coney Island by MelissaJMurphy on flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on 93rd St in Brooklyn, pedestrians struck at 86th St and Amsterdam Ave in Manhattan and a suspicious package at Wave St and Bay St on Staten Island.
The 5 train will begin extending its service into Brooklyn during the hours in between morning and evening rush hours.
A former Monmouth County, NJ police chief has been indicted on charges of sexually assaulting a girl between the ages of 12 and 14.
Mayor Bloomberg may have announced plans to help the media industry, but will it be enough?
Basil thievery in Carroll Gardens is getting so serious that it's beginning to leave children disturbed.
A photographer snuck some Photoshopping into the NY Times Magazine.
Even though he's still in the hospital recovering from heart surgery, Ed Koch got in his endorsements for the comptroller and public advocate races...along with a Brooke Astor joke.
The woman accusing Marion Barry of stalking her released tapes of voicemails so salacious that they shut down the server of the newspaper that released them, as web surfers came just to hear what sex act turned the pair into a modern-day Ike and Tina Turner.
In case you blinked and missed it, today included the moment 12:34.56 7/8/9.
Nails in the coffin of a financial analyst's career: Lenny Dykstra has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Police have confirmed that the Steve McNair-Sahel Kazemi case was a murder-suicide. After shooting McNair in his sleep, it's believe Kazemi sat on the couch next to him and positioned herself for her head to fall in his lap upon shooting herself.
Before passing away, the grandson of Oscar Mayer specifically requested that the Wienermobile not make an appearance at his funeral.
And the Oversharer of the Week Award goes to this young woman who reveals all the gritty details of what it was like to have a one night stand with Screech.