Photograph of the scene during a bomb scare on Exchange Place by dietrich on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A car vs. structure on Park Ave & 47 St in Manhattan, pedestrian struck at Brooklyn Ave & Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, and a water condition on Jamaica Ave in Queens.
• Two people were stabbed this afternoon near an army recruiting center in Harlem.
• Former mayor David Dinkins is in the hospital to get a new heart valve. He had a pacemaker installed earlier this year.
• The $14 billion auto bailout bill might be stalled in the Senate, but an alternative plan (with tougher standards) is being proposed by a Republican.
• New Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel refused questions from reporters today about whether he was the "advisor" named in the criminal complaint against Rod Blagojevich.
• Southwest Airlines, which will soon operate out of LaGuardia, is expected to announce fares and routes in the next few weeks.
• With signs that the only thing CC Sabathia really liked about New York was all the money it would bring him, the Yankees are now reaching out to the Brewers to see if they'd be willing to trade friends of his, former Met Mike Cameron and Bill Hall.
• Will Ferrell's one-man show coming to Broadway with him as George W. Bush will also air on HBO.
• Watch out: one shopper is so up in arms about the "rotting produce" at the Windsor Terrace Key Food she's starting a petition.
• And Curbed checks in on the battle between those redesigning Washington Square Park and purists who are drunk of those humps—their "decaying asphalt lumps."