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From the Gothamist Newsmap: Falling bricks at Park Ave & Cumberland in Brooklyn, a stabbing on Eldridge St in Manhattan and an armed robbery on Hillside Ave in Queens.
Happy Kwanzaa! Tonight is the first night of the holiday, which lasts seven days and will end with a feast on New Year's Eve.
Jurors who found former State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno guilty of corruption don't think the 80-year-old should go to jail.
A man who was struck by a train at the Jamaica-Van Wyck subway station died afterwards; no criminality is suspected.
Powerball lottery is coming to New York next year.
A son worried that he hadn't heard from his father for a few days went to his Flatbush Ave. apartment and discovered his body.
NY Knick Eddy Curry, who has another $11 million owed to him next season, really hopes he's cut from the team if he doesn't get to play more.
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and some of their kids were spotted buying some things from a NYC street vendor.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on December 26, 2009 6:55 PM

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Snoopy

Other than Festivus, Kwanzaa is my most favoristist holiday of the year.

I Hate The 7 Train

now Festivus is a very serious matter. But Kwanza? Who the hell celebrates this crap?

Snoopy

I'm not sure exactly who celebrates Kwanzaa but I heard it has to do with all the tribal elders standing around in a large circle and then they chuck spears at the moon to guarantee a good harvest.