Crime Blotter

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Someone's been shot at a Starbucks in midtown. "Police said the man, whose name was not released, was in stable condition at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center." [WCBS]
UPDATE: Now news sources are reporting that the man was "pistol-whipped," not shot. [City Room]