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Benjamin Franklin once said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes,” and while I do quite admire the man (where would we be without bifocals?) - he’s wrong. In NYC, there are many other things we can be 100 percent certain of. I’ve gathered a list of this city’s top 10 occurrences that are bound to happen. And if they don’t happen, then you know the world is ending and you don’t need to buy a new laptop and summer clothes.

Kathryn Joosten, the Emmy Award-winning actress known best for playing the lovably cranky Karen McCluskey on ABC's Desperate Housewives, died yesterday of lung cancer in California, TVLine reports. She was 72.