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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A fatal jumper at Ocean Parkway & Ave R in Brooklyn, a water rescue at 69th St Pier in Manhattan, and a suspicious package at Yankee Stadium.
- Broadway billions: The Great White Way helped put $5 billion into the city's economy during the 2006-2007 season.
- Attorney General Cuomo does not want to get involved with the state judges' lawsuit against lawmakers over pay, so Sheldon Silver, Joe Bruno, et al. have to get their own lawyers!
- Even in Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City, restaurants get shut down by the "Liberty City Institute of Food Hygiene."
- Speaking of video games, NYU will be opening up a gaming center in the future, as courses in game design.
- Totally bizarre rendering of what the Smith-9th Street subway stop could look like in the future.
- JP Morgan's bespoke correlation trading team was allegedly dumped because Bear Stearns employees will get their jobs.
- The Notorious B.I.G. movie has its period details down with this Sean "Puff Daddy/P.Diddy" Combs BMW.
- Rangers forward Sean Avery is still hospitalized--his spleen hasn't stopped bleeding!
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