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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A pedestrian struck at 42 St & 1st Ave in Manhattan, a child struck at 3rd Ave & 53 St in Brooklyn and a pedestrian struck at 178 St & Hillside Ave in Queens.
- Two cops and a firefighter who worked at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks have died of cancer in the past five days.
- The New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, will hear the Atlantic Yards case this week.
- Rutgers University football fans love watching this little kid play air guitar to Bon Jovi songs during home games.
- The Phantom of the Opera may be Broadway's longest running musical (it opened in 1988), but it also boasts an 84-year-old usher who has been there since the beginning—and she commutes from the Jersey shore!
- It may be weird to have the Terminator as Governor, but his tweeting might make up for it.
- After having dinner at a Uniondale noodle shop, a customer then held up the store manager with a gun and stole cash.
- Shouldn't a celebrity penthouse have a powder room and its own washer and dryer?
- Phew? Eli Manning says his heel wasn't aggravated during last night's blowout game.
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