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• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a construction accident on East 33rd St. and Madison Ave. in Manhattan, a pedestrian struck on 50th Ave. and 45th St. in Queens, and a shooting on Schenectady Ave. and Lincoln Pl. in Brooklyn.
• In three separate incidents yesterday, individuals were struck by subway trains. Two men were killed and the third was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
• Insurance fraud isn't brain surgery, until it is. A Staten Island man was sentenced yesterday to taking part in a scam where he was reimbursed for his-and-hers brain surgeries for himself and his wife.
• Two Queens detectives responding to a robbery call were hit by another car that sent their vehicle careening into the dining room of a family off Marathon Parkway.
• Advertise your New York nature on your chest with a t-shirt that shows others how to correctly eat a piece of pizza.
• A Long Island man infatuated with a co-worker at Wal-Mart and who learned that she had a boyfriend, let himself in to her Mastic home early in the morning and stabbed her sleeping boyfriend to death with a large hunting knife.
• First Canal Jeans, then Starbucks...now Target: The evolution of Flatbush Junction.

A Staten Island man arrived at his Clifton home to find four teen boys having sex with his 11-year-old stepdaughter and her 13-year-old friend. The stepfather called the police upon finding the naked teens. The boys, ages 16 to 18, were charged with first- and third-degree rape, first-degree criminal sexual act and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a suspicious fire at Prospect Ave. and Ritter Pl. in the Bronx, an armed robbery attempt at Tavern on the Green in Central Park and West 67th St. in Manhattan, and an armed robbery on East 84th St. in Manhattan.
• A Staten Island native and veteran of the war in Iraq, Christopher Small, was killed in central Pennsylvania after he asked uninvited guests at his best friend's daughter's birthday party to leave. His killer later confronted him on the street and shot him three times in the head.
• In the course of opposing Columbia University's expansion plans in Manhattanville, a historian uncovered a forgotten past of an uptown dairy industry in the neighborhood.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a fall victim on Davoe Terrace in the Bronx, a bank robbery on 2nd Ave. in Manhattan between 62nd and 63rd Sts., and a missing person on 180th St. and Clinton Ave. in the Bronx.
• Jay-Z is a significant partner interested in moving the Nets to Brooklyn, but the rapper apparently is also interested in the naming rights to the team's current Meadowland arena.
• Insurance broker Noel Lauria pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment in a deal that will have him avoid jail time for errantly letting arrows fly from his compound bow on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
• Angelina Jolie looks incredible leaving the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Manhattan, but she was crying as she related the story of two Syrian refugees.
• A Staten Island mother slapped the sunglasses off the young man who allegedly stole her son's iPod, and then stabbed the portable player purloiner with a shard of glass from his shades.
• A Manhattan mover pleaded guilty to pinching two Picassos from the apartment of an elderly man when he died intestate.
• This NYC skyline should be of some interest to graphics and image tweakers.
• This isn't New York's subway, but we still enjoyed this performance by a group of subterranean, beatbox-performing a capella artists.

A Staten Island man was about to fall asleep early Thursday morning only to be woken up when someone broke into his apartment - little did he know that it was the 'Ninja Burgler'. Phil Chiolo heard his cat Tippy growl, which was unusual, before hearing something fall downstairs. While in the kitchen investigating the sound, Chiolo saw someone dressed in, "a Halloween-like ninja outfit, with just his eyes peering out." Soon afterwards, the ninja...

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a possible abduction on West 15th St. and Surf Ave. in Brooklyn, a water main break on Broadway in Manhattan, and an escaped prisoner at Bainbridge St. and Rockaway in Brooklyn.
• Jamaican-New Yorkers were worrying about friends, relatives, and countrymen as Hurricane Dean was bearing down on the island nation. Fortunately, Jamaica escaped the full brunt of the storm.
• Emily "Pemmy" du Pont Frick feels that its "a tragedy" that her mom is holed up in a sick home for the impoverished, but "This is what happens when you get old and run out of money." And that is apparently how you become and stay extremely rich, like Frick.
• A number of Brooklyn kennels, centered around Park Slope, are experiencing an outbreak of a dog-cough virus that makes canines sound like they are cats coughing up hairballs. That is just humiliating.
• A dealer at a used car lot in Champlain, NY heard one of his Pontiac's engines purring and it took a number of mechanics to retrieve the now-adopted black cat named Motor Oil from under the hood. WNBC has fantastic footage regarding the story.
• Marcos Diaz successfully completed his 60-mile, twice-around-Manhattan swim yesterday after approximately 22 hours. The feat of endurance was accomplished to raise funds for Dominican kids suffering from leukemia.
• A Staten Island woman was awarded $135,000 by her daughter's insurance company after she was attacked by a deer. A mounted deer-head trophy fell off the wall as the babysitting grandmother was retrieving a safety gate in the garage for her grandkids and received a large gash on the side of her head.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Beekman Ave. in the Bronx, a double shooting on Throop Ave. in Brooklyn, and a dead body in the water just south of the Bayonne Bridge off Staten Island.
• There was a breaking news story on a cop being shot and killed this morning at or near a Hilton Hotel on 31st St. in Manhattan. Details were conflicting and confusing (not unusual in a breaking news event) and we expected clarification as the day went on. So far: total media silence on any such event.
• Someone "splashed" the black Astor Pl. rotating cube with a variety of paints, but the culprit doesn't appear to be the "Splasher".
• Claudia Cohen, former Page Six Editor at the NY Post, legendary gossip reporter, and ex-wife of billionaire Ron Perelman, succumbed to ovarian cancer yesterday. Former NY Sen. Alfonse D'Amato once famously called a press conference to announce that he was in love with Cohen.
• The Gowanus Lounge reports on the phenomena of someone, or some people, taking poops on people's property on Brooklyn's Bergen St. We emphasize: not dog crap, human crap.
• A Staten Island man has been indicted for his habit of poking young girls with a sharp object, allegedly for sexual gratification purposes.
• Longtime Harlem mainstay The Record Shack on 125th St. is facing eviction by the store's landlord.
• Chelsea neighbors object to the construction of an incongruous addition to their block.

No, this isn't our attempt to write a letter on behalf of a city school, it's an actual letter, rife with misspellings and mistakes, sent by a Staten Island teacher to students. A Health Academy dean at Markham Intermediate, Michael Levy, sent off a furious letter after a few eighth graders engaged in a food fight. Of course, little did he know that the letter would make him a laughingstock. From the Staten Island Advance:

"When we first received the letter, we started reading it. Then I'm, like, 'Wait! This doesn't sound right,'" said one eighth-grade student, who did not want to be identified for fear of retribution. "You're supposed to be a dean helping us out with our stuff? That doesn't make any sense!"

Continue reading "Spellbound By Teacher's Mistakes"

There's a fine line between a parent reprimanding a child with punishment and assault. A Staten Island man was charged with assault and child endangerment after he admitted to rubbing a hot yellow pepper on his 11- and 8-year-old sons' naked bodies - including their genitals, including their faces.

A bizarre accident occured at Bear Mountain State Park. A Staten Island family parked at a scenic viewpoint on a cliff yesterday, and the father, Victor Han, got out of the vehicle to take pictures. Then the van rolled towards the edge of the cliff, and then fell 300 feet down the side of the mountain. Han's wife Hejin, who had taken off her seatbelt, was killed, but their two daughters, ages 3 and 5, were still wearing theirs and survived. Police are investigating the crash, but believe it was an accident.

This is pure creepy: An electrician at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street was arrested for taking a cameraphone picture of a woman in the women's bathroom. This is how the Post describes it: "The unidentified woman told police that around noon, she saw a man's hand appear under a stall door holding what appeared to be a cellphone camera." What the hell is going on when a man will enter a women's bathroom and then take a picture from the stall? The restroom is an inner, if sometimes smelly, sanctum! It's one thing when little kids are running around the bathroom, sticking their heads under the door looking for their moms, but this is way too much. The electrician, Brian Ensser, was seen on security cameras and arrested for criminal trespess and unlawful surveillance.

- And the Village Voice says this year's No Pants 2K6 backfired because of the arrests

- A Staten Island woman found her daughter murdered, naked, and stuffed under the mattress when she returned home last night. And the daughter's room was locked.