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An executive at a subprime loan company that was financially circling the drain stated that the murder of his wife and consequent suicide was not related to money worries, but personal problems. Walter Buczynski was a 59-year-old vice president of Fieldstone Mortgage Corp., a mortgage lending company sinking into bankrupty. He'd told neighbors that he would soon be looking for a new job, but they didn't sense an irregular level of distress.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery at 59-23 Main St. in Queens, a partial collapse of a house being renovated in Wingate, Brooklyn, and a pedestrian was struck at Clove Rd. and Victory Blvd. on Staten Island.
• The idiot fan arrested at a Mets game the other week plead guilty to attempting to blind Braves players with a high-powered flashlight. His sentence: 15 days in jail and a three two-year ban from home games at Shea and at the team's new Citi-Field for three one year.
• The National Transportation Safety Board released the final results of its investigation Corey Lidle's plane crash: The pilot misjudged a u-turn over the East River, crashing into a highrise buildings and it's still unclear who was flying at the time.
• Brownstoner.com is passing on a story about residents of a Brooklyn Heights co-op who had to vacate because of an older resident who seems have fire-starter tendencies.
• Some observers hinted that Tishman-Speyer may have overpaid when it bought the former New York Times building in 2004, but the real estate company is the one laughing all the way to the bank after unloading it at triple the price ($525 million) three years later.
• Love it or hate, you can schedule your prospective condo buying or protesting for the next nine years with this timeline map of the Atlantic Yards development.
• The Baltimore Police are not happy with a Brooklyn man who made more than 250 911 calls to them in a month-long period, once reporting that a Baltimore officer had been shot. He is also accused of making nearly 400 hoax calls to call centers in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
• The driver of a stolen SUV being pursued by police struck a private special-ed school's mini-bus, overturning it in Douglaston, Queens. Eight students, a driver, and an escort were injured in the crash, the escort seriously.

- Restaurant Girl visits Bondi Road, which is operating sans gas at the moment. It doesn't seem to have hurt them any: she calls their seven-course sampling menu ($30), which they created due to their situation, an "orgy of fish delights."

OK, so Gothamist was talking about the NIT, but a #1 is still a #1, no? Yesterday the Manhattan Jaspers won their first round NIT game against the Maryland Terrapins. Sure, Maryland players and fans have no interest in the tournament (only 4,761 were at the game), but that's no really not much of an excuse. Win the win, Manhattan and Hofstra are now the only local men's basketball teams that are still playing in the post-season. Iona, Albany, Syracuse (which actually bills itself as "New York's College Team), Monmouth, and Seton Hall were all bounced from the NCAA Tournament already. For what it's worth, that tornament still has all its top seeds...so far.

Looking for a play for your weekend's entertainment? In previews now at the Signature Theatre Company is THE OLDEST PROFESSION by Paula Vogel. We love the description of this plot:

Everyone is talking about Jayson Blair, especially after yesterday's Times article.