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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a missing child on 94th St. and Broadway in Manhattan, a disabled train in the Amtrak tunnel under the Hudson River, and a shooting on Mott St. and Central Ave. in Queens.
- Miss Subway: beautiful at any age.
- For environmentalism, blue may be the new green. Coal miners and New Yorkers will probably stick with black.
- The courts ruled again in favor of the city regarding the mandatory installation of GPS and other equipment in taxis.
- Thousands of personal messages will accompany confetti dropped on Times Square at midnight tomorrow. The New York Visitor's Center has been accepting messages that it will print on some of the confetti to be scattered when the ball drops.
- The infamous rat-infested KFC/Taco Bell in the West Village is now a completely sterile T-Mobile store.
- We expect this is a lark, but a Facebook group is forming to protect Astoria, Queens' Greek community from long-haired guitar-playing hipsters.
- The New York Times welcomes an enemy within its gates. Bill Kristol, who has excoriated the Times in the past and prompted the firing of two top editors, is now a Times columnist.
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