Early Addition

Photograph of crowd for MSTRKRFT show at Webster Hall by shap43 on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A shooting at Springfield Blvd & Linden Blvd in Queens, a PIN job at Kensington & Corbin Avenues on Staten Island and a pedestrian struck on E 9th St (between Ave K & Ave L) in Brooklyn.
• Firefighters responding to a fire in Queens found three illegal firearms amid the blaze.
• NJ Governor Jon Corzine says the state may buy homes in order to stop foreclosure, vowing to protect neighborhood.
• A 70-year-old man was injured when crossing 125th Street against the traffic light--a Lincoln town car ran over him.
• The fallout on Wall Street reaches all the way to the Hamptons, where sales activity has slowed to a near stop and prices are being slashed.
• Possible competition for Fairway: A Trader Joe's is included in a proposal for the (forever) under-construction space at West 72nd and Broadway. Still, Fairway manager Steve Jenkins says, "We’ve taken competition before, and we’ve kicked their butts."
• Brooklyn Heights book store Book Court is in the process of expanding.
• A student at Trinity College in Hartford, CT was critically injured after diving into a "makeshift pool that had been dug into the ground" at a frat party.