Photograph of remnants of the recently bought out Commerce Bank by Bryan Collins on Flickr
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A fatal person under a train at 49th Ave. and 21st St. in Queens, a residential burglary on 127th St. in Queens and an armed robbery on Forest Ave. in Staten Island.
- Two more City Council members have come out saying they will vote against extending term limits. Those publicly against the mayor's bill are currently ahead of those in favor by a count of 19 to 15.
- Suicides are soaring nationwide thanks to Wall Street turbulence. Reverend Ann Malonee, vicar at Trinity Church, says "I've had a number of people say that this is the thing most reminiscent of 9/11 that's happened here since then."
- A man described as "an old-school Puerto Rican cat" in Williamsburg hangs out by an ATM on Grand Street and checks the receipts of the 'bummiest-looking' hipsters to find out they have up to $400,000 in their bank accounts.
- Amtrak will be rerouting trains through Grand Central for the next two weekends while railroad switches are upgraded at Penn Station.
- The fourth annual Casserole Party in Brooklyn is now accepting entries for its November 10th competition.
- New key cards and elevator cameras are coming to Stuyvesant Town; some say it's for safety, others say it's to monitor for illegal subletters.
- Talk about adding insult to injury. After being hospitalized with a bacterial infection and then getting booted from the starting lineup after returning from the off-season overweight, Knicks forward Eddy Curry sat on an exercise ball at practice yesterday only to have it explode.
- Amateur fisherman alert: would you should consider having your next bass fishing expedition along the luxurious Gowanus Canal?
- Maureen McCormick (aka Marcia Brady) stopped by The Today Show this morning to talk about her girlhood crush on her TV dad Robert Reed, kissing Eve "Jan" Plumb and even shared some lovely early morning tales of Syphilis.