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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A suspicious package at Pearl St & Wall St in Manhattan, a jumper down at E 213th St & Jerome Ave in the Bronx and a shooting at Lincoln Place in Brooklyn.
• The Advance has video of the crane that collapsed on a barge Staten Island's North Shore. The crane's cab operator was injured and 50 gallons of oil were spilled into the water.
• In an interview with Barbara Walters for 20/20 (airing tomorrow), Peter Cook blames his cheating on ex Christie Brinkley.
• Tests show that the soil near the Brooklyn Bridge waterfall has abnormally high salt levels, all but proving Olafur Elliason's guilt in the case of the sick River Cafe trees.
• The final home run ball hit by Jose Molina at Yankee Stadium may go for $200,000 at auction.
• A rabbi who will oversee the slaughter of over 4,000 chickens today on the eve of Yom Kippur says he's received thousands of threatening and anti-Semitic emails from animal rights activists.
• The woman accused of punching a flight attendant (who wanted her to stop smoking) was arrested again--this time for testing positive for cocaine and misdemeanor assault.
• Paris Hilton asks Jed Bartlet for campaign advice.
• And it looks like Time Warner's DVRs aren't set to automatically record tonight's new Project Runway episode, so manually set it!