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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A fire at Manhattan Ave & Calyer St in Manhattan, a MVA at Decatur St & Cypress Ave in Brooklyn, and a perp in a Subway store in Queens.
- A man who cashed in a $29,000 winning ticket at a Queens OTB parlor was promptly mugged.
- NJ 1, yo-yo company 0: A yo-yo company was ordered to pay the state $67,000 for costs associated with investigating the dangerous toy.
- Retired tennis player Justin Gimelstob is training for the NYC Marathon: His "good friend" Andy Roddick bet him $10,000 that he wouldn't finish (the money will go to charity).
- Conan O'Brien says the name of his new TBS show is...Conan.
- Now the private investigator working for the husband of the woman who drove the wrong way on the Taconic, killing herself and seven others, agrees with the ME's findings that she was drunk.
- It's unlikely that the Phantom of the Opera sequel—the one set in Coney Island—will head to Broadway this season.
- Drawings of NYC City Council members.
- Paste magazine is stopping publication.
- And Demi Moore was Twittering photos of herself in a bikini.
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