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Extra, Extra: Watch Out For Pedicabs!
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Jaya Saxena
Published Feb 19, 2011
Modified Feb 19, 2011
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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a "smoke stack fell off onto a scaffolding which then collapsed" in Queens, an injured officer in Manhattan and a male stabbed on Halsey Street in Brooklyn.
- Four bills were introduced to the City Council on Friday to fine pedicab drivers who disobey the laws, halt new pedicabs from being registered and make them subject to parking rules.
- East Harlem businesses are trying to make themselves "age friendly," with things like larger print type and quieter music.
- Bloomberg totally hit a huge pothole on his way to the "America's Great Outdoors" promotion in Central Park.
- A city pathologist has determined that motivational speaker Jeff Locker's death was not a suicide. An ex-con charged with his murder previously claimed that it was an "assisted suicide."
- The federal government rejected a plan to build an Indian casino in the Catskills.
- Fire Sale! Next weekend St. Mark's Comics is offering 10% off everything.
- Park Slope was "the center of not one but two different universes" on an episode of Fringe, in which "an apartment building seemed to expel some party-goers against their will out a seventh-story balcony." However, it wasn't actually filmed there.
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