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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A high-rise fire at Broadway & 39th St in Manhattan, a missing person on Raymonds Ave in the Bronx, and an evidence search on Howard Circle on Staten Island.
- A building on West 54th Street near 8th Avenue in midtown Manhattan was evacuated when someone called about cracks in the wall.
- Police say robbers are targeting fast food restaurants.
- No surprise here: Speed-the-Plow is better off with William H. Macy in the role abandoned by Jeremy "The Thermometer" Piven.
- Director Errol Morris has an elucidating blog chat with photo editors about a gallery of George W. Bush photographs.
- A NJ library will accept canned food donations, instead of cash, for late fee payments. It's part of their "Food for Fines" program next month.
- Chef Mario Batali has banned Gordon Ramsay from all his restaurants for calling him "Fanta Pants" and being a big meanie.
- Smoke 'em if you got 'em: crack isn't so bad for babies after all!
- And the District of Columbia, which isn't a state (yet!), has its own commemorative quarter—it features Duke Ellington.
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