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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A person struck by a tree in Queens, a train job at 103rd and Broadway in Manhattan and a shooting on Bush St in Brooklyn.
A flight from JFK Airport to Italy malfunctioned on takeoff, forcing it to return to the gate.
The robber who would wear a Bill Clinton rubber mask during his heists tried to escape from custody while undergoing an exam at a NY hospital.
A NY Times columnist wonders if the reason why NYC doesn't have more water ferries, is that we'd "be so much less stressed that we wouldn’t even recognize ourselves. We might be Seattle, for Pete’s sake."
Fire trucks responding to an emergency ran through a red light and struck a Honda CRV on Staten Island.
The man who received a $9.9 million settlement after being wrongly jailed for murder (because a corrupt cop coerced a witness) still has nightmares.
A Saugerties, NY high school student fell to her death while hiking in the Catskills on "Senior Cut Day." Police say none of the hikers were wearing appropriate footwear.
And Jane Lynch, star of Glee (and Party Down and many Christopher Guest movies), got married to her partner—the Times has an extensive write-up of their wedding!
The Slipper Room will be holding their last show tomorrow night. After that, they have "two weeks left in our current location, before we knock it down to a hole in the ground and build a whole new theatre right on the same corner we’ve occupied for the last eleven years."

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on June 6, 2010 6:10 PM

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Sad about the Slipper Room, but life goes on even as the clothes come off.

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Ah, who am I kidding... they're the same person.