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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A child struck at W2nd St in Brooklyn, a burn victim on Winfield St in Staten Island and a scaffolding collapse at Jerome Ave and Mosholu Parkway in the Bronx.
- The New York Philharmonic, which visited North Korea last year, may be visiting Cuba.
- A scorned Dean Skelos hopes for continued reform in the State Senate.
- The Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation is seeking to make Hudson Street between Perry and W. 11th "Jane Jacobs Way" in honor of the urban writer and activist.
- If you're signing for a FedEx package containing 20 pounds of marijuana, the cops will arrest you.
- Activists are upset that "rainforest-harvested ipe wood" is being used for the sleek benches at the High Line.
- A nurse claims that Anthony and Charlene Marshall eavesdropped on Brooke Astor's sessions with her lawyer.
- Five hikers were rescued from NJ "bear country." The AP said they were in an area with a "desolate two-lane road where cell phone signals can be weak and black bears are known to roam."
- Classic Post headline: TAIL TO THE CHIEF, to accompany photo of President Obama apparently looking at a young lady's rear. However, a video seems to suggest Obama was looking elsewhere—though French President Sarkozy still seems...French.
- Is Bouley Upstairs really serving "Cotes de Thong"?
- A doctor who treated Michael Jackson claims the King of Pop self-injected Demerol. Oh, and Joe Jackson thinks his son was murdered.
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