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The Department of Environmental Conservation says the Indian Point nuclear plant kills hundreds of thousands--if not millions--of fish and eggs each year. According to the Post, the fish are "sucked to their death by the cooling system." The plant's owner, Entergy, had previously claimed the fish populations were fine. Related: Entergy has agreed to pay NY State $72 million a year through 2014. There are concerns the company's spin-off plans could end up costing tax-payers, but Attorney General Cuomo seems okay with the plan so far, "I'm pleased that in this period of economic belt tightening, my office's vigilance saved the State from being ripped off by Entergy."

A new study from Columbia University's Earth Institute says there is a "substantially greater" risk for an earthquake in the NYC area than previously thought. Per LiveScience, "A pattern of subtle but active faults is known to exist in the region, and now new faults have been found. The scientists say that among other things, the Indian Point nuclear power plants, 24 miles north of the city, sit astride the previously unidentified intersection of two active seismic zones. ."

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that NY State filed papers with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission explaining why the license for the Indian Point nuclear power plant should not be renewed. In fact, Cuomo called the plant a "catastrophe waiting to happen" and said, "I believe Indian Point should be closed and it should be closed now." Here are some of the reasons Cuomo and Governor Spitzer gave (more here - the petition submitted to the...

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a truck stuck underneath a train platform at 237th St. in the Bronx, an armed robbery on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn, and a burn victim at McKeever Pl. in Brooklyn.
• The husband who was strangled to death, allegedly by his wife in their new $1 million Long Island home, had a criminal record that included serving several years upstate for rape, robbery, and burglary.
• A fire at a homeless encampment near Hillside Ave. and 178th St. in Queens spread to the encampment's shanties. One man was unable to escape in time and died in the fire.
• The controversial federal case against a woman accused of smuggling monkey meat into the U.S. for use in religious ceremonies continues.
• New York is turning into a clown town during the holiday season. There are currently six separate circuses operating in the city.
• Police are investigating a string of robberies in Brooklyn's 84th Precinct that appears to be targeting Asian people.
• The Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants the Indian Point power plant to pick up the pace on the repair of emergency sump pumps.
• The city's started to ticket ($100 to $300) businesses in Cobble Hill and Park Slope for placing a-frame signs advertising everything from manicure prices to happy hour specials. The signs supposedly are obstructing the sidewalk.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a missing child on 42nd St. and 2nd Ave. in Manhattan, someone robbed the Commerce Bank on Fresh Pond Rd. in Queens, and a severed limb on West 183rd St. in Manhattan.
• Someone in Richmond, Indiana won the Powerball lottery with a prize of $314 million and change. Mega-Millions is up to $250 million, however, so if you feel you're in want of a quarter-billion dollars or perhaps just $1 too rich, go for it.
• New York Press reported that bidding for the hacked iPhone allowing a different carrier than AT&T was up to $15,600.
• The Times has a piece on the Reggae Carifest, which was being protested against for the inclusion of performers whose songs are anti-gay. The paper characterizes the show as a disappointing bust.
• An inspector with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found a guard at a security gate at the Indian Point nuclear facility asleep on the job. The NRC downgraded Indian Point's safety rating earlier this year after a number of unscheduled automatic shutdowns.
• A 60-acre park in Ridgway, CO was recently dedicated to actor Dennis Weaver, who died last year. In the 1970s series "McCloud," Weaver played Sam McCloud, a New Mexico deputy who brought his Western crime-fighting skills to the streets of NYC.
• 30,000 respirator masks distributed to members of the NYPD (they can normally be seen in a pouch strapped to cops' legs) have been recalled by the manufacturer as possibly defective.
• Someone with an IP address associated with the American Enterprise Institute entered the Wikipedia fray last September, when they altered an entry on Mayor Bloomberg to read "F--k this turd."

An alarm that lasted several minutes at the Indian Point nuclear power plant set neighbors on edge Thursday. Back in April, we mentioned that Entergy, the owner of the Indian Point nuclear power plant 40 miles north of the city, was fined $130,000 for failing to install an emergency warning system by a required deadline. This was just weeks after a fire in the facility's transformers tripped an automatic shutdown at one of the site's reactors––the second reactor shutdown that month. The two mishaps led to a downgrade in Indian Point's safety rating by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a residential hi-rise fire on 10th Ave. in Manhattan, a double shooting on Beach Channel Drive in Queens, and a transformer fire at Barbey St. and Pitkin Ave. in Brooklyn.
• Entergy was fined $130,000 for not installing a warning siren system at its Indian Point facility by a required deadline. That would be the nuclear power plant that just had its safety rating downgraded by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
• The City Council distributed a memo reminding workers that even though Casual Fridays were in effect, flip-flops, shorts, and other too-casual clothing items are inappropriate for city government.
• A mugging by an 11-year-old who wanted another child's change after he bought candy ended with the victim's skull impaled with a stick. He survived, but is expected to leave the hospital for a nursing home.
• The niece of Tom Carvel, the man who brought us Fudgie the Whale, is claiming that he was murdered with poison and wants his body exhumed so an autopsy can be performed. We never trusted Cookie Puss.
• A gravedigger in Yonkers noticed four black bags in a freshly dug grave he had recently prepared. The bags each contained one smoked fish and pictures of unidentified people. Police are investigating but the bags' meaning is yet to be determined.
• The city medical examiner ruled that the jump rope-involved death of five-year-old Monet/Monique Flugham was an accident.
• The shutterbug photographer who caught American Idol lingerer Sanjaya hobnobbing with Gov. Spitzer––or is it the other way around?––is none other than Valerie Bertinelli!
• The case of NYC vs. Deadbeat Diplomats is being heard in the Supreme Court this week.

Yesterday's fire at the Indian Point nuclear power plant occurred in a transformer yard and away from the plant's nuclear area, but klaxons sounding at a nuclear facility have a way of putting people on edge. Transformers are the component of our electric power infrastructure that makes electricity suitable for transmission over the grid. When a fire broke out amidst the transformers used by Indian Point 3, the plant automatically shut down as by design. The other reactor, Indian Point 2, continued functioning normally.

Power is still out in Western Queens. As we noted yesterday ConEd has now admitted that they vastly underestimated the number of people who have been without power for the past five days. While they initially said that there were 2,500 folks in the dark the number looks now to be at least ten times that number. And that's not even touching the estimated 100,000 people who are still living off of reduced voltage (enough for flickering lights, not enough to keep food cold let alone use AC or elevators).