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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: Airmail in Brooklyn, truck vs train overpass in 31st St & 20th Ave in Queens, an amputation at Grant St & St Pauls Ave in Staten Island and a bomb scare at Broadway and Mercer (NYU) in Manhattan.
- A former deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani is now an "ambassador" for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. But it's not that shocking, since Fran Reiter had lead the Liberal Party before joining the Giuliani administration...or is it?
- Who decides how subway posters are hung, because this is another example of great subway-poster-juxtaposition?
- A piece of the Willamette Meteorite, which is at the American Museum of Natural History, is being auctioned off. And, no, the museum is not selling it - the private meteorite collection who they traded the 28-pound piece (getting a piece of Mars in return) is behind the sale.
- One man has been arrested in the Labor Day weekend bias attack of Top Chef Season 2 contestant Josie Smith-Malave. The attack was outside a Sea Cliff, Long Island bar; Smith-Malave said that about 12 people punched and kicked her and two of her friends and that the bar's employees, who went outside to watch the attack, didn't do anything.
- The NYPD's new headquarters for the towing division are in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- Staten Island DA Daniel Donovan is warning residents about the fake IRS "Customer Satisfaction Survey" scam because taxpayers aren't really customers anyway.
- Speaking of taxes, John Gotti Jr. may head to prison because he hasn't paid $220,00 in back taxes.
- The Eldridge Street Synagogue's rose window returns in time for Rosh Hashanah.
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ummm....i think we're missing the contents of this post. pr
Cool, Dexter is coming back. I can't wait.
Broadway doesn't intersect with Mercer.
There is no train overpass at 31st St. & 20th Ave.
And what does "Airmail in Brooklyn" mean?!?