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Early Addition: Fire At Obnoxious Nolita Restaurant
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Jen Chung
Published Apr 27, 2011
Modified Apr 27, 2011
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Published Apr 27, 2011
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Photograph of a fire on Lafayette Street this morning by tokyohanna on Flickr
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- The fire at maligned restaurant Delicatessen on Lafayette and Prince Streets seems to be related to some AC work. Guess there weren't any neighbors around to pee.
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- OMG Blake Lively is a redhead now.
- A Columbia University professor of Japanese literature is retiring at age 88—and he's moving to Japan! Donald Keene says he became interested in the Far East because a friend at his Brooklyn high school was Chinese.
- Your motorcycle will probably be stolen on the UWS.
- An hour with Tina Fey at Google.
- Windsor Terrace's "countdown clock to subway normalcy."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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