Early Addition

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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: An evidence search at Sackman & Newport Street in Brooklyn, a shooting on Arlington Ave on Staten Island and a taxi cab into a building at West 47 Street & 9th Ave in Manhattan.
• Two mothers at Staten Island University Hospital contracted meningitis.
• Skinny latte, please, with a shot of Torah: A Lubavitcher rabbi hopes to make an East Village synagogue a "spiritual Starbucks."
• The atmosphere of lawsuits and complaints is prompting one Plaza Hotel condo owner to sell his 8,000-square foot apartment for $49 million.
• At a bar, one of the Real Housewives of NYC interrupted a Korean woman to give some advice about men, "With you being Asian, you have an advantage. My European friends in particular adore Asian females because of their submissiveness. So work that to your advantage."
• Clark Rockefeller, aka Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter the German national who masqueraded as a socialite and took his daughter during a supervised visit, was indicted on kidnapping charges.
• Closed by the Department of Health last month, the Nam Wah Tea Parlor in Chinatown is getting ready to reopen.
• And an international audience helps guard an Obama campaign sign, via webcam.