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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A suspicious package at Alabama Ave & Fulton St in Brooklyn, an unusual rescue on Utopia Parkway in Queens and a barricaded perp on Fanning St on Staten Island.
- In Hempstead, a pregnant woman chased down the guy who snatched her necklace and scratched her in the eyes. The robber is being held on $250,000 bail.
- Workers at Union Square noodlery Republic will be protesting--they claim they are cheated out of their wages--at 3 p.m. today.
- Though Ralph Nicoletti was allegedly so upset over Obama's win that he and a friend beat up a black teen, Nicoletti's name doesn't appear on Staten Island's voter registration rolls.
- OMFG meets X-Men: OC and Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz will write the screenplay for X-Men: First Class, about a younger set of mutants.
- A Williamsburg condo has lots of green features, which might help neutralize the face it's practically on top of not-so-green BQE.
- Newsweek is delaying its holiday party until April and a Gawker commenter predicts it'll be on April 1.
- Connecticut is spending $6.8 million for an anti-smoking campaign; funds are from its share of the national settlement with tobacco companies.
- And French model-turned-First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy hit the Today Show and the Late Show with David Letterman last night to promote her album.
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