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- Falling debris has fallen from the under-construction new New York Times building at Eighth Avenue and 41st Street and hit a car. Early reports say the debris was some sort of pipe. And not only that, it went through the car's sunroof. NY1 says that two people were injured, including a small child. Oh, dear.
- An FBI agent was killed when his motorcycle crashed into a bus on the Upper East Side
- Ooh, will bird poop decals in advertising come to NYC? We can only hope!
- Universal Pictures is donating $1.15 million - 10% of the weekend gross of United 93 - to the Shanksville memorial fund
- Forgotten NY has some photographs of great old signs
- Tom Cruise is in town hyping Mission: Impossible 3 - have you seen him yet?
- The Village Voice on yesterday's immigrants' rally - a quote from an Ecuadoran, "We are the new black men of America"
- And we'll be updating our post on the Greenpoint Terminal Market fire

Photograph of the S Shuttle at Times Square/GrandCentral (looks lke Da Vinci Code advertising!) from Kara Canal on Flickr

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Okay. The immigrants just lost all credibility with that one statement. Smuggling yourself into a country hardly compares with being dragged here in chains. Somehow I doubt the first Africans who came saw it as much of a land of opportunity.

That's right up there with Roger Toussaint being compared with Rosa Parks.

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yeah, uh...black men in america are still pretty much dealing with being black men in america. give it some time, buddy.

So Universal Pictures will pocket the 90% profit due to the exploitation of 9/11? EXCELLENT!

RE: the Tom Cruise thing, I saw a whole bunch of press people outside the 68th/Broadway theatre. Was that supposed to be one of his stops? I figured the crowd was for him since most of the regular Tribeca premiere/red carpet events are probably over...

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Is it me or has NBC, a divison of NBC Universal, been over promoting that 9/11 exploitation movie?

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i saw tom (with leather jacket and sunglasses) and his son yesterday outside of david letterman. i can't believe he exists.

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