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Williamsburg Fire Hits Iconic Water Tank Company

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A New York City firefighter, his face covered in soot, relaxes after battling a three-alarm fire on April 27, 2009 in Brooklyn.

Get your morning scoop on a fire in Williamsburg and a celebrity couple's impending move to Park Slope in today's local blog round-up.

A rogue fireworks display seems to have caused a fire at the site of Williamsburg's Rosenwach Wood Tank Company. The company was just featured on the Discovery Channel show Dirty Jobs in 2008, which followed along workers as they repair and replace the icons of the New York City skyscape. Gothamist has photos and videos of the blaze. [Gothamist]

OTBKB marvels at the blurring lines in Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick's rumored move to Park Slope, and shares a reader's clever hope that her next movie be called "Sex and Park Slope." [OTBKB]

Two teenagers who strangled a writer with the Chinese language newspaper World Journal while he slept in a parked car in Flushing last May were identified by law enforcement as suspects, and said in a press release that "This case will be vigorously prosecuted." [Times News Weekly]

Brooklyn 11211 observes, "Greenpoint is ground zero for counterfeit Mister Softee trucks," following an article with Mister Softeeco-owner James Conway in the Philadelphia Inquirer. [Brooklyn 11211]

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