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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A car into building at Rogers Ave & Church Ave in Brooklyn, an overturned auto on the FDR near E 23rd St in Manhattan, and a person under the train at Aqueduct North Conduit Ave Station in Queens.
  • A New York Waterway ferry, which helped save passengers and crew from Flight 1549 in January, rescued a man from the Hudson yesterday. A ferry crew member said, "He wasn't moving. He was just kinda stuck in the one spot. We were concerned."
  • Architect Charles Gwathmey, whose designs include, Midtown's International Center of Photography in Midtown Manhattan, Queens' American Museum of the Moving Image, and "Sculpture for Living" at Astor Place, died at 71 from esophageal cancer.
  • A hospital gown-clad man fleeing from Flushing Hospital was fatally struck by two cars.
  • Bank of America paid a $33 million SEC fine over Merrill Lynch bonuses.
  • "Record crowds" are expected at an open casting call for the Sex and the City sequel today. We hope it's like the America's Next Top Model melee!
  • The community-panned Trump Soho may not have sold as many units as the developers brag—and the ones that are sold may never close!
  • Robert Downey Jr. on the new Sherlock Holmes movie, where he plays the sleuth and Jude Law is Dr. Watson: "We're two men who happen to be roommates, wrestle a lot and share a bed. It's bad-ass."

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"There's not a seething, bubbling hunger to see straight stars impersonating homosexuals"
Au contraire.

Do the "Sex and the City" girls start breeding and move to Wyandanch in the sequal?

Please, Please, Please ......

"We're two men who happen to be roommates, wrestle a lot and share a bed. It's bad-ass."

Umm... no Robert that just sounds gay.

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