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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: bank robbery on 86th Street, abduction in Queens, serious MVA on 34th and 12th Avenue.
- A fueling-company worker at JFK shined a red laser into the face of a JetBlue pilot sitting in the cockpit of an airliner preparing for takeoff yesterday, and was promptly arrested for menacing, weapons possession, and total stupidity.
- Peanut butter is dining critic Kryptonite. "I'm a peanut butter slut, open to all, faithful to none," says Frank Bruni.
- Appetizing: a vintage noun "meaning stuff one eats with bagels."
- Remember the Sedgewick Avenue building where hip-hop was invented? After new owners bought building in 2008, housing code violations have piled up, and tenants there are upset.
- Chris Christie will be sworn in as governor of New Jersey today. Now he just has to fix "a state government besieged by budget shortfalls, a culture of corruption and crippling public debt."
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