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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: An armed robbery on the Manhattan Bridge, an all hands fire on Mulberry St in Manhattan and a water main break at E 102nd St & Flatlands Ave in Brooklyn.
- President Obama raised $3 million at NYC fundraisers for the Democratic party; at a $30,000+/ticket affair, he joked, "You can't afford a fund-raiser involving [First Daughters] Malia and Sasha. I'm cheap."
- The woman whose alleged drunk driving on the West Side Highway—with a car full of seven young girls—killed an 11-year-old was indicted by a grand jury yesterday.
- The NY Times looks at mayoral candidate Bill Thompson's work with the Board of Education.
- The Nets are pimping out Devin Harris—"The New Jersey Nets are renting him and some of the team's other players out by the hour to help sell season tickets in a tough economy. For $25,000, fans get four courtside seats to 10 games, food and drinks and a 60-minute house call from their favorite star under a new program dubbed 'Your Ticket to a Player.'"
- Newsweek will reimburse Thrillist for its reporter travel during a junket to Jamaica.
- Oopsy: MSNBC's Contessa Brewer mistakenly called the Rev. Jesse Jackson the "Rev. Al Sharpton."
- Cops say the driver of a speedboat that crashed earlier this month, killing himself, his wife and a friend, was legally drunk.
- The Crosby Street Hotel has a swank screening room.
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