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• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A white powder incident at West 48 St & 6 Ave in Manhattan, an amputation on 51 Rd in Queens, and a person shot at Franklin Av & Eastern Pky in Brooklyn.
• From one of the secretive "Three Men in a Room" to consultant espousing transparency in government, former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno is still BFF with Governor David Paterson.
• An Upper East Side man who donated $600,000 the Reagan Library is suing to find out what they did with $200,000 of it.
• Beloved downtown sandwich shop Crosby Connection is homeless again!
• Is it because we're officially in a recession now? Gawker Media downsizes a little more.
• Speaking of a recession, a CNBC guest blogger explains why we trust the National Board of Economic Research to tell us why we're in a recession.
• Wallace Shawn's first new play in over a decade will be directed by Andre Gregory, star Shawn and Miranda Richardson, and premiere in... London.
• Eloise would never stand for this: Vanity Fair looks at how the Plaza's much-lauded renovation was built with shoddy materials.