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Photograph of a Jack-o-Kitty by Tien Mao

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A hazmat at Flushing Meadow Park (at the Queens Museum) in Queens, a shooting on Graham Ave in Brooklyn and a stabbing at W 141 St & 7th Ave in Manhattan.
• Newsday received a package labeled "anthrax"--but apparently the white substance was not anthrax.
• A man died on a Rome-to-NY flight that landed at JFK yesterday. Alitalia has not released any details of the man's death.
• The GOP is cutting funding to most House races in NY State--including to one for Vito Fossella's seat.
• The prefab housing exhibit at MoMA, Home Delivery, ended it's tenancy on October 20th... and now the houses are demolished.
• The police report for the apparent Isiah Thomas overdose incident says that when police arrived, the adult male was on the kitchen floor and not breathing.
• Don Draper fever! EW hears rumors that the suave (well, at least on Mad Men) Jon Hamm may guest star on 30 Rock -- as a love interest for Tina Fey's Liz Lemon.
• Willie Randolph didn't get the job manging the Milwaukee Brewers--it went to former A's manager Ken Macha.
• And legendary author- historian- activist Studs Terkel died in his home in Chicago.