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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A bus accident at Four Corners Rd & Richmond Rd on Staten Island, a shooting range incident on City Island, and a stabbing at West 8th St & Ave of the Americas in Manhattan.
• A security guard carrying over $300,000 in cash was robbed at 1st Avenue and 23rd Street, outside the M&T Bank.
• Quite a few people at the NYC Housing Authority who fix elevators also have second jobs fixing elevators. While the NY Times says there's no evidence "the employees have done private work on city time," there's a backlog of elevators in disrepair.
• Lawmakers are being rallied to support the city's Willets Points rezoning plan.
• Fox Searchlight wants the public's help in picking a poster for the Notorious B.I.G. biopic.
• Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel will be playing a Barack Obama benefit concert at Hammerstein Ballroom on October 16th. Tickets start at $500 and go up to $10,000!
• Walt Disney must be rolling in his cryogenic storage chamber: Prostitutes have been sighted just steps from family-friendly Times Square!
• And this is what happens when you outsource street furniture to a Spanish Company: The Bowery becomes "Bowery St."