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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A pedestrian struck at Ocean Ave & Farragut Rd in Brooklyn, a traffic agent struck at 57th St & 3rd Ave in Manhattan, and a police car MVA at Vanderbilt Ave & Park Hill on Staten Island.
  • Hmm: NY students didn't show any improvement on federal math tests, which is pretty different from NY State test results showing big improvements.
  • A Long Island home was robbed by men posing as Con Ed workers...of course, Con Ed doesn't even service Long Island.
  • Worst idea ever: An Ohio woman went to a Burlington Coat Factory store and said she won the lottery and would pay for people's purchases—but when it turned out she was lying, a riot ensued.
  • Yikes, an 18-year-old high on hallucinogenic mushrooms stabbed a nurse upstate.
  • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was hospitalized overnight after a reaction to some medication.
  • Although farmers across the country were hit by lower than expected pumpkins crops, there are plenty in Queens!
  • Time Out New York sits in on a rehearsal for the new Richard Foreman play with Willem Dafoe.

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Homes are burglarized, not robbed.

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