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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A serious trauma at Broadway & W 68th St in Manhattan, a stabbing at East Tremont Ave at Westchester Square in the Bronx and a stabbing on the westbound BQE at 69th St in Brooklyn.
- In spite of falling almost 1,000 points on Wednesday and Thursday and the terrible unemployment data, the stock market was up 4% today.
- Moderate Republican Representative Christopher Shays who lost his re-election says he'd be interested in heading the Peace Corps for President-elect Obama. Shays and his wife volunteered in the Corps between 1968 and 1970.
- Those damn Yankees! The Bronx Bombers underpaid the city $11 million in taxes.
- AIG repaid $2.3 billion of its $85 billion loan from the federal government.
- The Villager takes an extra close look at Extra Place.
- Glamour editor Cindi Leive thinks Sarah Palin has "a brilliant future," she added that she's "a gifted politician. She's a great communicator. She's a magnetic personality," and finally, that she is "great for women."
- Curbed compares the Plaza in New York to its Vegas counterpart.
- And Rosie O'Donnell is buying a pied a terre in Times Square, presumably to be closer to see Broadway musicals.





Can we please stop talking about Sarah Palin now? Pretty please?
Wow, Cindi Leive gets it! Bravo!!
Cindi Leive needs to give her girl card back.
HAHA, #1, you want to stop talking about Palin now because she wasn't bashed on this one. Don't worry, the neo-libs have decided she is next in line to be hated since Bush will be gone.
The Yankees underpaid 11 million in taxes. The estimated revenue is 15 million. Hmmm... Don't rename the Triborough Bridge, save $4 million, collect taxes from shortchanging sports teams like the Yankees, add $11 million. Adds up to $15 million. Madison Square Garden STILL has a tax exemption that saves them about $11 million a year. Somehow the mayor wants to pass a plastic bag tax to raise much needed revenue.