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Brilliant, reclusive and eccentric, Chicago-born and Brooklyn-bred Bobby Fischer died at age 64 in Iceland. His spokesman said the cause was kidney failure, after a long illness.

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a partial collapse on West 123rd St. in Manhattan, an unusual trauma at Dewitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, and a shooting at Bergen St. and Buffalo Ave. in Brooklyn. The 7 train line was shut down for about two hours this afternoon after power to a number of signals failed. Service was back up by 4 p.m. AMNewYork looks at Rudy Giuliani's tendency to take phone calls...

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an armed robbery on East 91st St. in Brooklyn, a confined space rescue at JFK Airport in Queens, and a pedestrian was struck at East 23rd St. and Lexington Ave. in Manhattan.
• A dump truck jack-knifed and rolled over, crushing the car next to it and killing the car's two occupants in Brooklyn.
• Jay Leno is auctioning off the set of The Tonight Show and donating the proceeds to fund an after-school program at Brooklyn's Paul Robeson High.
• Streetsblog notes dueling Google ad placements for and against congestion pricing in New York.
• One of the men who was shot by police with Sean Bell was arrested last night and arraigned on charges of assaulting his girlfriend, driving without a license, and harassment.
• A NJ town that enacted strict ordinances against hiring or renting to illegal immigrants three years ago has repealed them after discovering that the negative impact on the town's economy was significant.
• Maybe the Yanks or Mets should look into whoever is having sex with BushwickBK's neighbor, because he or she has quite an arm, as evidenced by the steady stream of panties landing in his yard.
• The sections of the Brooklyn Bridge rated "poor" during recent inspections will be refurbished over the next few years.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a boat in distress off the Breezy Point Jetty in Queens, a bank robbery on 14th St. and 5th Ave. in Brooklyn, and a stabbing on East 115th St. in Manhattan.
• Jay Jay French, the guitarist for Twisted Sister, is upset that an Upper West Side Florist that's been in the neighborhood for 87 years is being forced to move to New Jersey due to higher rents.
• Living With Legends: Hotel Chelsea Blog posts that board member David Elder called the NYPD bomb squad to the hotel after receiving what he deemed a suspicious package. It was suspicious in that it didn't contain a bomb, but a fish head.
• All is not serene at the Hare Krishna Sanctuary on 1st Ave. between 1st and 2nd Sts., as one group of followers is attempting to evict another group.
• Bruce Ratner may lose $100 million in city subsidies for his Atlantic Yards project unless drastic revisions are made to the conditions of the tax breaks.
• Ugly Outfits New York. Further explanation is simply unnecessary.
• If you've been hunting for a co-op to buy into that comes with a pre-installed stripper pole and mini-stage in the living room, Curbed may have found something for you. We'd love to sit in on that co-op board interview.
• ConEd announced that it would pay businesses for any physical damages caused by last week's steam explosion, but won't pay anything for lost business while the frozen zone around the blast site was being cleaned.

The old adage says, "any publicity is good publicity," but is that really the case with Foxy Brown? Just this Thursday, Brown was given another chance in criminal court for violating the terms of her parole. It seems like Foxy, who's real name is Inga Marchand, decided to celebrate Friday night with a free meal at Junior's in Brooklyn. Junior's management told The Post that Foxy and her crew walked out on a $53 bill before someone came back and tried to pay. The restaurant refused payment by saying, ""Look, don't pay for it, just don't come back."

Dusk, by Paulo C.

It probably says something pretty sad about the cost of living in Nueva York that we're excited about the prospect of paying only $6 bucks to go and see a first run movie, but there you have it. If only we didn't have to get up so early to take advantage of it...

- Someone lost a bunny rabbit in Brooklyn, making for an eyecatching "found pet" poster

- Protests today over the World Trade Center Memorial