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Photo taken in Brighton Beach by MissApril1956 on flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: a stabbing at 3rd Ave and 123rd St, a shooting at Lexington Ave and 117th St and a pedestrian struck on the Grand Central Pkwy in Queens.
Police have arrested a 41-year-old East Islip man for beating his neighbor's cat with a rake and shooting it with a BB gun.
The Nigerian mom whose baby—and thirty dollars change—took off with an unknowing cab driver said that she has no hard feelings toward the cabbie.
An out-of-control livery cab plowed into an Ecuadorian street festival in Elmhurst this afternoon, sending 13 people to the hospital
Federal stimulus money ($25 million of it) will be used towards a "green" train car washing facility for the Long Island Rail Road
The Cult of Liz (Gilbert) comes back to the East Village tomorrow, with the film adaptation of her book, Eat, Pray, Love, shooting in the hood where she once bartended at Coyote Ugly.
The Upper East Side's version of a dive bar leaves the Post wondering, "Where's the bearded tranny?"
And Jezebel has started creating a casting wishlist for the upcoming Mad Men parody on Sesame Street, making us wonder if Sterling's sensitive tummy could handle all that chocolate as Cookie Monster.

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By Billy Parker in Miscellaneous on August 2, 2009 6:31 PM

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virgilstarkwell

hey look, a fat guy sitting on a garbage can. let's all laugh at him. way to go, "photographer"!

if you're going to take such a cheap shot, at least have the balls to do it head-on... not behind his back followed undoubtedly by scurrying away.