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Yay! It's that time of year when the Straphangers Campaign announces the winner of the annual Pokey Award for the slowest city bus service. And this year, there's a new award: The Schleppie, for least reliable service.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a large sinkhole on Nostrand Ave. and Quincy St. in Brooklyn, a large fight on Park Ave. and 129th St. in Manhattan, and a water rescue at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island.
• The Daily Show is giving the green screen that is used to fake remote segments a rest and actually sending correspondent Rob Riggle to Iraq to file reports for the satircal news show.
• This Morningside Heights dive bar, popular with trivia contestants and Jeopardy! fans, days are numbered due to an expired lease. What is the Night Cafe?
• The man who robbed a bank on East 23rd St. yesterday made his getaway by ducking into the nearby Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and stripping off his jacket to reveal a set of green surgical scrubs and blending into the crowd.
• Families are suing the city of New York for running the Pelham Bay Landfill, which they say is responsible for an epidemic of cancer in their neighborhood.
• Marcos Diaz waded into the water yesterday afternoon at the beginning of an attempt to swim around Manhattan two times. The 60-mile effort is being made to raise funds for children with leukemia in the Dominican Republic.
• If you think dressing dogs in raincoats or sweaters is ridiculous, you really should not click through to this Daily News slideshow of a canine fashion show.
• The New York Times reflects on the appeal of walking in the city. We wrote about walking for the thrill of it earlier this week. Do you have a city walk that stands out as being particularly enjoyable?

The public school year will end on a scandalous note. An aide at the prestigious Hunter College High School was arrested on charges of raping a 15-year-old student. Timothy Avery, a 25-year-old Staten Island resident, was charged with statutory rape and endangering the welfare of a child. The NY Times reports that "friends of the girl had expressed concerns about the girl’s behavior to school authorities."

Laurel Wright-Hinckson, a spokeswoman for the city Education Department’s Office of the Special Commissioner of Investigation, said that the 15-year-old girl had not been a student of Mr. Avery’s...

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The city launched a new Public Space Recycling pilot program yesterday that puts blue and green recycling cans in high traffic areas in hopes that people will dump their newspapers and empty glass bottles in their instead of regular trash bins. The program will start in April and last through June, and Mayor Bloomberg said, "The most important thing is, if this works, it will let us do something much more ambitious citywide and really make a difference in how much we recycle, and how environmentally friendly this city is."

More than two years after the Anthony J. Barberi ferry crashed into wood pilings at the Staten Island Ferry's St. George Ferry Terminal, the ferry's pilot and supervisor were sentenced to prison yesterday. Assistant Captain Richard J. Smith, the pilot, was sentenced to 18 months and ferry supervisor Patrick Ryan was sentenced to 366 days. Smith had been tired and was on various medications during the crash; shortly after, he tried to kill himself. He pleaded guilty last year (to seaman's manslaughter), and expressed his guilt and admitted his responsibility in front of the judge yesterday. Ryan was reprimanded for not following a two-pilot rule for ferry ships. The judge noted that Smith and Ryan did not mean to kill, not requiring heavier sentences, but apparently the sentences were longer than what probation officials recommended. Up next will be how much the city will be liable for in the victims' and victims' families' civil suits.

S62/92 (7.8 mph) Runs between Travis and the St. George Ferry Terminal