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Last night, a Brooklyn woman was fatally struck by a driver in a Mercedes SUV on Water Street and Old Slip in lower Manhattan. Florence Cioffi, 59, was pronounced dead at NYU Downtown Hospital.

The bicyclist who died while riding on the Manhattan Bridge Friday night was identified as 27-year-old Brooklyn resident Sam Hindy. Hindy's father Stephen, a former Middle East correspondent for the AP and Newsday reporter who later co-founded the Brooklyn Brewery, said, "We're just devastated. This is the worst thing that could happen to any parent. It's any parent's worst nightmare." Sam Hindy and a friend were riding back from Manhattan to Brooklyn on the upper...

The Daily News has FDNY audio and transcripts from the 7-alarm fire at the Deutsche Bank building. The tapes are harrowing: One firefighter yells, "Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Engine 24 standing by! I'm lost. I'm trying to make it on the charged hose line. Running out of air!" came a frantic call." Another says, "All the staircases, all the landings are plywooded up. ... It would take us a week to get through and check each one." And then a higher-ranking official says, "I want a roll call! ... I don't give a s--t about the building. I give a s--t about the guys!"

Thanks to that miracle which is modern medicine, filled with wacky, generous surgeons always ready to provide organs to the needy, having a baby may be easier for some women. Along with hearts, lungs, kidneys, and (recently thanks to vain French doctors) faces, a doctor at New York Downtown Hospital is on his way to providing uterus transplants to hopeful mommies-to-be who lack their own.

Feeling the sting of controversy - and perhaps wanting to keep relations with Chinese-Americans warm - after disqualifying a newborn Chinese-American baby born to non-legal U.S. residents in a New Year's scholarship contest, Toys R Us has decided to give all three babies in the drawing $25,000 scholarships. Here's the toy retailer's statement:

"We love all babies. We deeply regret that this sweepstakes became a point of controversy. As a result, we have decided to award all three babies in the grand prize pool a $25,000 savings bond."

People had been upset with the company's original decision denying little Yuki Lin, born at NYC's Downtown Hospital, a scholarship for the first baby born in 2007. It turns out that Lin had won the original drawing but then was disqualified because of Lin's mother legal status - the parents are two 22 year old Chinese immigrants working in Chinatown restaurants. If Toys R Us had these concerns, why was Lin even in the drawing to begin with? (Their contest seems flawed.). City Councilman John Liu said, "How does a company like Toys 'R' Us stick it to a baby on the first day of her life?"

Of all the retailers to find themselves in a heated debate about immigration, Toys R Us is one of the more unlikely ones. But the toy retailer is under some criticism concerning how it handled a newborn's situation in a New Year's contest. Toys R Us offers a $25,000 scholarship towards college education for a baby born in the new year. The NY Times reports that three babies were tied for being the first baby: One from Bay Shore, NY, one from Gainesville, Georgia, and one from NYC's Downtown Hospital, Yuki Lin.

The NY State Commission on Healthcare facilities recommended closing nine hospitals in the state in order to save $1.5 billion. Five are in New York City: St. Vincent's Midtown and Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan; Victory Memorial in Brooklyn; New York Westchester Square Medical in the Bronx; and Pakway Hospital in Queens.

As ever, it's a showdown between Manhattan and Brooklyn: The first babies born in the five boroughs in 2006 are split between two teeny, tiny babies born at 12:01 yesterday. Little Vicky Tang, weighing at 7 pounds, 12 ounces greeted the world at NY Downtown Hospital (the Post reports that a TV was on nearby) while 5 pound, 11 ounce Zahi Saher was born at Coney Island Hospital - 11 minutes after his mom was taken to the hospital! Newsday says that Saher's mother wasn't expecting for another three weeks, and apparently that when she arrived, people were telling her she could be the one to have the first baby of 2006. Well, that certainly beats Gothamist's New Year's celebrations - we just broke a noisemaker and avoided vomit on the way home. Hooray for babies, even though their strollers block too much of the sidewalk!

Busta Rhymes's bodyguard allegedly punched a fan looking for an autograph earlier this week. The Post reports that Melvin Smith "approached" Rhymes with an "outstretched palm for a handshake" while at a downtown deli, but Rhymes' bodyguard got into the middle of things and then, you guessed it, an argument "ensued." The police confirmed that Smith was treated by NYU Downtown Hospital for four stitches to close a gash. This is kind of crazy, but really, how far would you go to get Busta Rhymes's autograph? However, the best part of the story is when the Post asked Busta about the incident:

When confronted by a Post reporter yesterday, Rhymes hip-hopped past the question of his bodyguard's alleged punching of Smith.

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The Post ends its article about the suicide with "Suicides on the Brooklyn Bridge are nothing new, but most people who decide to end their lives on the city landmark do so by taking a plunge into the East River."

One 3 train passenger told the Times that after the shooting, the MTA told passenger to leave the station: "It was not very smart of us to be on a train during a shootout." Gothamist was heading downtown in the early afternoon, when the PA system said that there would be no 1/2/3/9 service "due to an investigation at Chambers Street" and then we wondered if it was a real investigation. Little did we know.