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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A motor vehicle accident at Harlem River Dr S/B at George Washington Bridge in Manhattan, a sexual assault at Parsons Blvd in Queens and a home invasion at Water Ave & Brighton 13st in Brooklyn.
Roman Polanski will be placed under house arrest in his Swiss Alpine chalet as soon as possible.
An elderly Brooklyn couple, whose dry cleaning business was forced out by a rent hike, lost their home to a fire but their neighbors have been rallying to help them.
A court approved the Willets Point redevelopment plan.
A man committed suicide from his West End Avenue apartment. The Post reports that cops and neighbors say he jumped from the 16th floor "in front of his horrified daughters."
KRS-One was volunteering at the Bowery Mission today, "I used to be here. Back in 1986 I ate here. I was homeless for many years, and it was the Bowery Mission in particular that used to feed me, clothe me."
An East Patchogue couple that faced foreclosure now own their house outright after a judge ruled "to cancel their mortgage because of a bank's failure to act in good faith in working out a foreclosure alternative."
And a man in Indiana was arrested when he called the police because he forgot where his tractor-trailer with 5-year-old son was—see, he had left the kid to go to a strip club and got apparently wasted.