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BROOKLYN WEATHER: What’s it gonna do today?  Check here for Brooklyn weather. 

FYI: Tuesday through Saturday April 26-30 alternate-side-of-the-street-parking is suspended due to religious observance (Passover). All other parking regulations in effect.

CITY NEWS: 11 injured in multi-car crash involving a taxi in Times Square.

_Homeland Security secretary, Michael  Chertoff, to tour Grand Central Terminal on Monday with local officials.

_City murder rate on track for 40-year low. 

_The NYC Department of Health is warning New Yorkers to use window guards and to make sure they are installed properly after a 2-year old boy named Jonathan Sanchez died  falling 6
stories when the window guard, which were improperly installed, gave
way when he leaned against the window.

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_In a
talk at the Tribeca Film Festival (which is in full swing), Actress
Maggie Gyllenhaal, star of a new flick
about the aftermath of 9/11, said that the U.S. "is responsible
in some way" for the devastating terror attacks. She is getting a
beating from the local press (Daily News, Post) for saying it. Slow
news weekend, I guess. Her new movie "The Great New Wonderful" has a plot centered on
the destruction of the World Trade Center – premiered Friday.

"I think what’s good about the movie is that it deals with 9/11 in such
a subtle, open way that I think it allows it to be more complicated
than just, ‘Oh, look at these poor New Yorkers and how hard it was for
them,’" Gyllenhaal told the NY1 cable channel.   

BROOKLYN BEAT:  Three boys died and four other people were
injured in a fast-moving fire. Flames broke out shortly before 6 a.m. on the second floor of
104 Ross Street, a six-story apartment building near Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, according to fire officials. Investigators say the fire likely started in a gas stove, by
accident, but they don

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  1. That reading series sounds great! I hope Louise G. Crawford will be reading…

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