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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: An aircraft emergency at JFK Airport, a person under a train at East 59 Street & Lexington in Manhattan and a shooting on Rosedale Ave in the Bronx.
  • Isaac Abraham, a Hasidic community advocate who is running for City Council, is profiled by the Times, who calls his a "neighborhood fixer."
  • Almost a year after two firefighters died, a grand jury is reportedly close to handing out indictments in the Deutsche Bank building fire.
  • Arby's is returning to Manhattan--41 new stores are planned.
  • Though 5,000 new hotel rooms were planned for Brooklyn, the economic downturn may mean more than half of them never get built.
  • A Queens craft store is trying to stick around, in spite of big store competition.
  • And one boy is using his bar mitzvah money to take some children of 9/11 victims on a tour of the city. The boy happens to be the son of former president of Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm that lost 658 employees in the attack.

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