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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: Suspicious package at Broadway & W 44th St in Manhattan, missing EDP at Main Street & Booth Memorial in Queens, and car vs. building at East Fordham Rd & Bainbridge in the Bronx.
- Though it's unclear whether the Javits Center expansion will happen, the hotel tax that's supposed to help fund it has collected over $100 million so far.
- The LIRR and other commuter railroads might have to report their gap incidents to the feds, if a proposed rule change is approved.
- Streetsblog looks at how the downtown Brooklyn intersections still aren't safe, even after a $5 million promise to fix things up.
- Curt Schilling tells it like it is, "The Yankees suck this year, and they're bitter and mad and they're making excuses over that."
- The NJ lab technician caught having sex with the corpse of a 92-year-old woman will probably be sentenced to time served. Per the AP, "Two psychiatrists said in separate reports that Merino needs psychological help and the plea agreement calls for therapy."
- The New Yorker Festival schedule has been posted; tickets go on sale Friday at noon. Matt Groening talks to Lynda Barry, anyone?
- An excellent parking job in Bay Ridge.
- And New York's Kurt Andersen and Daily Kos's Markos Moulitsas discuss Obama's niceness and the future of the GOP.
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