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A huge crowd fathering in Washington Square Park last night to hear Senator Barack Obama speak. He mentioned that he "used to hang out in Washington Square Park" and that he knew "a little something about Greenwich Village." His speech touched upon issues like making college more affordable and how his relative lack of experience didn't matter, "Longevity does not guarantee good judgment. A long resume says nothing about your character.”

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a home invasion robbery on Lincoln Ave. in Brooklyn, a hostage situation on Duane Ct. on Staten Island, and a sexual assault on West 153rd St. and Macombs Pl. in Manhattan.
• "Live Free or Die Hard" director Len Wiseman is slated to direct a remake of "Escape From New York," with Gerard Butler ("300") assuming the role of Snake Plissken, who was originally played by Kurt Russell.
• The Bronx GI who hired someone to shoot him in the leg so he wouldn't have to return to serve with his unit in Iraq was spared indictment on felony charges by a grand jury.
• The original home of The New York Times, at 113 Nassau St. between Ann and Beekman Sts., is being demolished.
• Former New York Met Jose Offerman, who was a Major League All-Star while playing with the Dodgers in 1996 and Boston in 1999, has been suspended indefinitely from the minor league Long Island Ducks after striking the opposing pitcher and catcher with his bat after he was hit by a pitch.
• An NYPD captain is on trial for dragging a subordinate officer by her hair to the backseat of a car where he allegedly punched her. An NYU security guard testified yesterday that he witnessed the attack on the female officer by the ranking officer she was having an affair with.
• New York magazine searches out the best lemonades in the city.
• The New York Times reports on the biology of sweating.

- And finally, anybody attend yesterday's Critical Mass? How bad was it this time? Leave a comment!

An NYU student group convinced NYU to postpone withholding striking grad students' stipends until tomorrow. Today was originally the school's deadline for grad students to stop striking before NYU would have cut off grad students' stipends. The students have been picketing since November 9, in an attempt to unionize but NYU no like that. A student group has called on the Graduate Student Organizing Committee to end the strike today at 5PM to bring the campus back to the normal (or whatever is normal at NYU) but the GSOC says they will continue to strike, as the school's proposals have been inadequate. Which means the $19,000 in stipends could be lost per student starting tomorrow. And NYU students - keep telling us your perspective.

A woman looking to see if a train was coming was hit by a D train on Saturday afternoon. From the Daily News' account, it seems that the woman was looking in the "opposite direction of the oncoming D train" and that she was swaying "dangerously," with the front of the second-to-last car hitting her in the head. Then, "The train roared by, knocking her down about 20 yards from the southern tip of the platform. The impact bounced her several feet and sent blood pouring onto the tracks below" An NYU law student got out of the train that hit Novak and held her hand until the parademics came, but Novak died at the hospital.

Some people. An NYU graduate who was pushed into a kiddie-pool full of Jell-O in May 2004 is now suing the school (for $1 million) for failing "to prevent the Jell-O wrestling event" and for disregarding "its duty to maintain its premises in a safe condition." Yawn.

An NYU senior with a major in math was arrested in his family Pound Ridge, NY home when bank and postal officials discovered he had been shuffling about $43 million in fake, certified check between banks in Greenwich, CT, and Switzerland, where there are many, many banks. Hakan Yalincak opened up a number of fake corporations and deposited fake checks into the bank accounts here and overseas. With millions in "phantom money" in each, he then transferred $2.5 million to a new account in Greenwich. It was when he tried to withdraw $1.7 million that Yalincak was caught, with bank officials wise to his scheme. At the court hearing, where his mother was weeping, the judge said that Yalincak had to stay in a Providence detention center until a hearing on Thursday, and Yalincak wailed, "I have a graduation on Wednesday." The Daily News had this comment from a twentysomething NYU alum: "Obviously, they're teaching them something at NYU."