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2010_07_xx0709.jpg Photograph by Ron Douglas on Flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: Shots fire at Pennslvania Ave & Linden Blvd in Brooklyn, an robbery on E 13th St in Manhattan and a working fire on 80 St in Queens. Warning, this is a pretty insane (and profanity/racial epithet-filled) recording: ...

070910spill.jpg U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biologist Lorna Patrick reaches into a sea turtle nest to harvest eggs from the sand in Port St. Joe, Fla., Friday. U.S. Fish and Wildlife and other authorities are relocating thousands of sea turtle eggs to a warehouse on the East coast of Florida in an effort ...

jerseysurejersey0710.jpg Last year the Brooklyn Cyclones announced a night dedicated to the Jersey Shore (the show!), following the news that Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino used to tell the ladies he was the back-up third baseman on the team (yes, that was his pick-up line!). Anyway, the Cyclones are ...

2010_07_bking.jpg LeBron James outside the W Hotel in Miami (AP) Some New Yorkers really believed that LeBron James was coming to New York. One Upper West Sider told WCBS 2, "He came all the way to Greenwich, Conn., to ("Decide"). Got us all excited. I'm very disappointed." But James got to meet up ...

7910countingfail.jpg A new audit of Columbia University Medical Center has revealed that it has been given over $100 million of city money for work it can't prove it provided, according to City Comptroller John Liu. Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) prepaid Columbia $109 million to provide health ...

superfund0710.jpg One reason not everyone was supporting the EPA slapping a Superfund sticker on the Gowanus Canal was because of the stigma that comes along with that label. Bloomberg and certain developers were fearing the fallout of a decision to Superfund, and the Toll Brothers were even facing ...

070910vespa1.jpg Courtesy My Little O, via Streetsblog Last night an unidentified 40-year-old woman died from head trauma sustained during a collision with an SUV Ford Explorer in Fort Greene around 5:30 p.m. Witnesses say she was heading west on DeKalb Avenue and making a right turn on Clinton Avenue ...

7910lee.jpg The Knicks might not have been able to convince Lebron James to come to NYC (let us not forget the gospel of delusion), even with the huge resources and dollar signs at their disposal, but leave it to a pro organization to show you how it's done: the Yankees are on the verge of completing ...

teachertryst.jpg Shocking. The two female teachers caught going at it in a darkened classroom last year, were drunk. As so many sort-of-lesbians before them, a little alcohol was needed before the two got down to business. According to the Daily News, the James Madison High School teachers—Alini Brito ...

7910murder.jpg Narcy and Ben Novack Jr, AP The Rye Town Hilton in Westchester is a popular local destination for Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations; it was also the site of the grisly murder of Florida multimillionaire businessman Ben Novack Jr last year. Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment yesterday ...