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On the stretch of Dekalb Avenue in Fort Greene just east of Fort Greene Park is a stretch of reasonably priced, neighborhood restaurants including the local Middle-Eastern favorite, Black Iris. Cash only and BYOB, the friendly servers at Black Iris seat you promptly in a dim brick-walled room hung with tapestries at one of a dozen tables in a room made drafty by people constantly walking in and out.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a death investigation on Dekalb Ave. in Brooklyn, an unstable building on Cherry St. and Robinson Ave. in Queens, and a homicide on East 29th St. and 5th Ave. in Manhattan.
• Rudy Giuliani and John McCain have different views over torture.
• Texting and talking on the phone are about to be banned in the Garden State.
• It's possible that news of a sniper on the Saw Mill River Parkway was fake.
• Pakistani militants allegedly targeted NYC bridges in 2004.
• The shotgun wound victim from the illegal poker game hold-up died from his injuries.
• A wind advisory blows into the region thanks to Noel.
• Don't forget to set your clocks back tonight.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on West 24th St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan, another shooting on Rockwell Place and Dekalb Ave. in Brooklyn, and yet another shooting at 92 -35 215th Place in Queens.
• Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James' female acquaintance made an amazing amount of money by buying properties from the city and then flipping them for huge profits.
• Phone records reveal that an upstate teenage driver may have been responding to a text message "What are you doing?" sent by a friend, moments before she ran into oncoming traffic, killing herself and four other just-graduated-from-high school young women.
• After drifting off course and running aground near the Ambrose Channel in New York's lower bay, the oil tanker White Sea was finally floated and moved for repairs at high tide.
• Lenox Hill Hospital was the point of arrival for seven sets of twins this week on East 77th St. Girls: 8; Boys: 6; Healthy: 14!
• A Westchester store is charging $55 for less than a liter of water.
• The young man who was accused of attempting to molest a girl in Queens, and was scared off by an alert and intuitive pit bull who started barking like crazy in response to her cries, turned himself in to police.
• Former U.S. Senator from New York Al D'Amato is expecting a child with this new wife, who is almost 30 years his junior, (she's 41).
• NYPD Officer Russel Timoshenko died today from injuries sustained during a traffic stop early Monday morning, when he was shot twice in the face. He was 23 years old. We'll have further coverage tomorrow.

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Oh, New York City Subway. Gothamist knows you are 100 years old, and you've been doing a great job. But it makes us so sad and frustrated when there's a subway derailment AND a broken rail in a given day. Yesterday, a B train derailed in the morning and then a broken rail was found at West 4th Street, which meant lots of service was suspended. The Daily News reports that "Four wheels on the seventh car of the southbound B train train went off the tracks in a tunnel leading to the DeKalb Ave. station at 8 a.m." Yikes, wheels coming off the train. The MTA will inspect the train and its route.