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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A pedestrian struck on Hylan Blvd & New Dorp Ln in Staten Island, a missing child on Northern Blvd in Queens and police activity on the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn.
It is winter: There was measurable snowfall in New Jersey.
After outrage, El Museo del Barrio has dropped "spic" from its program title "Spic Up/Speak Out!" to "Speak Up!/Speak Out!"
When he heard about a carjacking on his police scanners , a tow truck driver helped nab the suspects, who might be involved with many previous carjackings.
In order to save the Great Lakes, Illinois officials are poisoning waters in order to eliminates a predatory Asian carp.
A Port Authority manager, praised for saving people from a World Trade Center elevator on 9/11, is now accused of taking $60,000 in bribes.
World Series champion (with the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals) Jason Marquis still comes back home to Staten Island each season and says he'd like to pitch for the Mets.
A Binghamton University professor was stabbed to death by a graduate student; the professor was set to judge the student's dissertation.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on December 5, 2009 7:12 PM

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MrManhattan

I don't understand why Illinois is allowed to poison invasive species while New York isn't even allowed to impose a commuter tax on New Jersey???

Blue387

The MTA is running the annual holiday nostalgia train from 10AM to 5PM every Sunday this month on the V line:

http://mta.info/mta/news/releases/?en=091203-NYCT195a