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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A water main break at E48 St & Ave I in Brooklyn, a barricade situation at Olmstead Ave in the Bronx, and a strong arm robbery at 59 Street & Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn.
Yankees fans are enduring another chilly night up in the Bronx now—it's Game 2 of the ALCS.
An 89-year-old doctor who, as a young medical student in Amsterdam helped hide over 100 Jews during World War II, is being honored in Westchester on Monday.
Hoorah! A manatee that had been trapped in the cold NJ water finally left (for Florida, we hope) after eating a case of lettuce.
Hey, if Comcast doesn't buy NBC Universal, Liberty Media AND News Corp. are reportedly taking a look.
Hope controversy: Shepherd Fairey admitted to faking records about which Obama photo he used. Now his attorneys are withdrawing from the case and say he "had misled them by fabricating information and destroying other material."
Hardcore: Brazilian drug gangs shot down two police choppers in Rio.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on October 17, 2009 6:47 PM

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longacre

Maybe Chi-town will earn the Olympics once their drug dealers invest in some quality surface-to-air missiles. Why didn't the stimulus cover that?