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Photo of Cortlandt Alley in Manhattan taken by Harris Graber on flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: a stolen parks vehicle in Prospect Park, a missing child in Prospect Park and a child struck at Lexington Ave and 112th St in Manhattan.
It turns out the New York woman who donated $150,000 to Hebrew University was just eccentric, not homeless. Ida Fischer, who fled the Gestapo and settled in NYC, had made dolls and hats in Chinatown and later lived in Turtle Bay.
Here's video of District 37—the city's biggest union—explaining why it endorsed City Comptroller Thompson for mayor. Notes from Mayor Bloomberg's meeting with union reveal he refused to promise that jobs wouldn't be cut and that pensions would remain the same.
East Village residents took their gripes to megabars Superdive and Destination at a community board meeting last night. Residents told them that no locals go to these bars and warned the hotspots that they were "on watch."
Of course: The media wants health care reform town hall protests to have "anger" and "energy."
Paul Krugman bought a new three-bedroom Riverside Drive apartment with his wife. Though the Nobel Prize winner in economics expects housing prices to fall more, he told the Observer, "We really wanted a place that has the ultimate New York luxury, which is a washer and dryer."
The Times spots stylish young men with pot bellies, and thus a trend is born.
NBC is opening up the annual lottery to win your shot at Saturday Night Live taping tickets for the upcoming season, so you can sit elbow-to-elbow with all of the VIP comps who occupy the studio audience.