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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a person under a train at Grant and Glenmore Aves. in Brooklyn, a missing emotionally disturbed person from Myrtle Ave. and 66th Pl. in Queens, and an armed robbery on 131st St. and Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattan.
Attorney General Cuomo announced that Facebook has agreed to "implement more than 40 safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators, fraud, and online bullying" and ban convicted sex offenders.
Dan Rather is still angry with CBS for making him the scapegoat of the faked National Guard document scandal. The veteran newsman has been unable to find even part-time work because he feels he was hung out to dry.
Darth Vader, created with various letterforms in different types and weights.
City Room reports international sightings of the winking thumbs-up chef that can be spotted around NYC outside some pizzerias. Also, some disturbing anthropomorphic food figures.
John McCain has been in town to take in $7 million of NYC Republican donor money. No word on how those donors feel about VP possibility Dwight K. Shrute.
Gowanus Lounge notes a pimped-out bus shelter in Park Slope that includes a collection of different chairs.
State lawmakers are looking to legalize the sale of beer and wine in movie theaters, because obnoxious people are currently too inhibited at the movies these days apparently.