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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A pedestrian struck at Broadway at W 76 St in Manhattan, a shooting at Briggs Ave & E 197st in the Bronx, and an overturned truck on Manor Road on Staten Island.
- Former police commissioner Bernard Kerik's lawyers are trying to appeal the revocation of his bail.
- Not so fast, housing sales recovery—the Times worries, "Artificially low interest rates and a government tax credit are luring buyers, but both those inducements are scheduled to end. Defaults and distress sales are rising in the middle and upper price ranges."
- The NJ pastor, allegedly killed by the parish's janitor, may have told the janitor he would be laid off because he didn't pass a background check.
- An elementary school student is being forced to take test prep instead of dance because her reading scores only meet her grade requirement (she scored above the requirement on math).
- Someone stole $2,000 of lamb from an unattended food delivery truck on Columbus Avenue.
- A tenant upset about having to pay a month's rent and security deposit for breaking his lease dropped off some shit to the leasing office.
- The professor who founded pop culture studies died at age 87: "I’ve been criticized for three things. Wasting taxpayer money, embarrassing my colleagues and corrupting youth."
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