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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A fire on Elizabeth St in Manhattan, a water search at Clove Lakes Park & Silver Lake Park on Staten Island and a commercial robbery at East 34th St in Manhattan.
The 22-year-old woman who received a five-organ transplant celebrated the New Year with friends and a Gatorade.
A woman was awarded $800,000 for injuries sustained in the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash. The Post notes that the woman, an artist, "never made more than $11,000 in one year from her art. But she claimed in a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court that her life as painter was finished because of the crash.
Mobster Vinnie "Gorgeous" Basciano gets to have visits from his ex-wife and mistress on alternating weeks while he's at Manhattan Detention Center.
The police released surveillance footage of a man suspected in the killing of a Harlem parking garage attendant.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian national accused of trying to set explosives on a Northwest Airlines flight last week, may have used an Arabic language course in Yemen as cover (he arrived already being fluent!).
An East Patchogue woman was killed in a Vermont snowmobile accident.
And the Post claims that two Washington Wizards players—Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton—drew guns on each other in a locker room over a gambling debt.