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Photograph by ipodipoor on Flickr

  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A fire on St. Marks Place, a barricaded perp on 130th Ave in Queens, and a CO incident on Hill Ave in the Bronx.
  • The House of Representatives may vote on the health care reform bill tonight.
  • Before his death, Village Gate founder Art D'Lugoff was reportedly looking at reviving the club: He "had reviewed several potential sites in recent months, including the former movie house on West Eighth Street where Jimi Hendrix ran his Electric Lady Studios."
  • From being a sleek luxury condo to dorms: How Columbia grad students get to live in a nice Riverdale pad, thanks to the real estate slump.
  • A woman who was convicted of killing and cutting up a man in Central Park when she was 15 is now suing a couple for a car crash that has left her confined to bed.
  • The lawyer for the Orlando, FL man accused of killing one and wounding five others at his old job says his client is "very mentally ill" and dealing with divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment.
  • A man from Long Island visiting Puerto Rico died while car surfing—as in pretending to surf while on the roof of a car.

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Love that photo. "I'm such a proud New Yorker, I dropped my trash where I stood."

To be fair, the one regular trash can on every corner was not enough to hold the trash of the million people at the parade. City didn't prepare for it with extra bins.

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