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In June of 1972 (just months after his divorce) Elvis Presley performed a 3-day run at Madison Square Garden. These shows were the first full concerts he put on in NYC, and the first since he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1956. Excitement was in the air, and Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Art Garfunkel, all of Led Zepplin and half of The Beatles (John Lennon and George Harrison) were in the audience. Another notable name: some report Liberace was there and after seeing him in concert suggested adding flashy costumes into his act.

• 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.