Extra, Extra

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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A found firearm at 58 St & 55 Dr in Queens, a sinkhole on E 61st in Manhattan, and a serious trauma on N 7th in Brooklyn.
• The Dow Jones lost 213 points in a late day sell-off; on the upside, it didn't swing as severely as in past days.
• The man who killed his ex-girlfriend at the East Village Key Foods pleaded guilty for her murder and also wounding another Key Foods employee; he will serve 20 years to life.
• Jonathan Adler, who just married Simon Doonan, told The Observer's Transom that when his mother and sister the wedding, "people were throwing rice at them because they thought they were a lesbian couple."
• Senator and one time presidential candidate John Kerry made a joke about John McCain wearing adult diapers.
• Plans for an eight-floor Chelsea "alien pod/steampunk fantasy" with four units seem to have been derailed by the market meltdown.
• Marty Markowitz says the MTA's "largely abandoned" building in downtown Brooklyn is a blight and says there needs to be change in order for the area to thrive.
• Columbia students have started a new erotic review-"C-Spot." Fleshbot (NSFW) points out the last time students started one, it folded after two issues.
• This will be the last weekend of the season for the Red Hook Ballfields vendors.