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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A shooting on E 171st St & Townsend in the Bronx, a suspicious substance on Vesey St in Manhattan and a suicide attempt at King St & Beach Rd on Staten Island.
The federal special paymaster is letting AIG give a "critical" employee a $4.26 million bonus.
With Governor Paterson crying that the state is poor, the Post wonders about a $50 million renovation project for the Capitol.
In Paterson, NJ, a 6-year-old accidentally killed a 5-year-old while playing with a relative's gun.
A Hamptons Jitney driver called yesterday's storm a "super blizzard"—it took him hours to drive passengers to the Hamptons.
Governors Island has a cameo in two new issues of Amazing Spider Man; the Sandman uses the island for his evil lair.
NY Knicks GM Donnie Walsh isn't ready to trade Nate Robinson.
Videogum survived Avatar: "There is a reason that I don't really go to concerts anymore, and that reason is because I'm 63 years old, and have very little tolerance for physical discomfort and crowds. Now i can't even go to the movies anymore, apparently?"

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on December 21, 2009 6:40 PM

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Mr Mel

"it took him hours to drive passengers to the Hamptons."

Was he driving or flying? Is there a way to get there from Manhattan, using the roads, that doesn't take hours?

rcltrh

For the AIG employee, here's your GD bonus: be glad you're not one of the unemployed people that your reckless ineptitude caused and get back to work performing more money shifting miracles that add nothing to society. Seriously, they should post the bastards name for the world to see. Worthless bastards all of them.