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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a carjacking at Tompkins and School Rds. on Staten Island, a person was killed by a 5 train at Bowling Green station in Manhattan, and an armed robbery at 51st Ave. and Northern Blvd. in Queens.
- Bidding closed at $2,600 for the new owner of the Seinfeld ASSMAN license plate prop on eBay.
- Another Mister Softee driver was busted for selling drugs out of his ice cream truck, this This time it was across the street from a Flushing, Queens playground.
- From "Bright Lights, Big City" to fridge manufacture Sub-Zero's site, author Jay McInerney is guest-blogging about wine this week. He'll be accompanied by restaurateur Lora Zarubin.
- Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is making a claim to Hillary Clinton's and Rudy Giuliani's home turf. He's opened a campaign office on Fulton St. between Broadway and Nassau in downtown Manhattan.
- Newark, NJ is losing its "blemished, rat-infested drug-haven eyesore” of a hotel. Few will mourn the killing off of this Lincoln.
- It was up to a 27-year-old intern from China, who came to the US to learn about local governance, to spot a $280 million typo in Nassau County's budget.
- A Bronx man was arrested in the attack on a homeless man, who was set afire in an incident in East Harlem initially attributed to teenagers.
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Columbus Day Reveler, by Pabo76 at flickr
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