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Photograph of Seiko Katsumata, who is 75 and blind, by specialrkb on Flickr. She finished her 12th marathon with a time of 08:01:10.

From Gothamist Newsmap: Human remains at E 233rd St & Baychester in the Bronx, a person struck by a train at E 59th St & Lexington Ave in Manhattan and a barricaded EDP at 68th St & Myrtle Ave in Queens.
The Post reports Governor Paterson got Yankees World Series tickets for his son, his son's girlfriend and staffer for free. Paterson's staff claimed they were gifts from the ball team—which the Yankees denied— but ultimately decided to pay for them.
Vice President Joe Biden was upstate to campaign for Bill Owens, the Democratic candidate in the 23rd Congressional District race. Owens faces Doug Hoffman, who is running on the Conservative line.
What would NYC Transit do: Apparently raccoons love the Muni in San Francisco!
A woman is fighting her transgender ex for custody of their child in a somewhat confusing custody case in Brooklyn.
A Philly fro-yo chain is coming to Bleecker Street.
A Brooklyn bishop has robocalls on behalf of a Brooklyn Democratic bigwig—and to oppose a City Council candidate.
The CDC says two deaths are linked to tainted beef that originated in Asheville, NY.
When a Jenga and an iPhone have a baby, maybe the building version of the baby looks like this.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on November 2, 2009 7:07 PM

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bennyinsf

I love the photo of the raccoons. I've looked at it about 10x now. Troy Holden's link is the best -- large photo. You can really catch the details.

Tower18

Ha! She went right by where I was standing on 4th Ave in Brooklyn. I actually made a note to look her up Sunday night to see where she finished. Way to go!

brooklyn norm

Yeah Seiko! She was chuggin' right along out there. And as you can imagine, the crowds (and us fellow runners) were going absolutely nuts for her. It was incredible. I remember thinking that even though she could probably hear it all, it's too bad she couldn't see the smiles on everyone's faces as she approached.