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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a child out a window on 25th St in Brooklyn, a suspicious package at 8th St and Greene Ave in Manhattan and a missing person at Story Ave in The Bronx.
- World stock markets fell today, on fears about the economic recovery. In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2% (186 points) to 9,135 while the S&P lost 2.43% and the Nasdaq dropped 2.75%.
- The only survivor in the Taconic crash, five-year-old Bryan Schuler, was informed of the fates of his sister, cousins and mother Diane while recovering in a Queens hospital.
- An entrepreneurial Brooklyn woman wants to turn your backyard into an urban farm. (Yes, you now have a backyard. Go look!)
- Despite efforts from banks and credit unions to open up more branches in poorer neighborhoods throughout the city over the last twenty years, residents in lower-income areas continue to show hesitance and distrust to open accounts with them.
- The Stamford Marriott has decided that blaming a rape victim isn't really the way to go: The hotel, facing a lawsuit from the victim who was assaulted in the hotel parking garage, had originally said the victim's negligence factored into her being attacked.
- A casting director for the musical Gay Bride of Frankenstein got in trouble for tweeting snarky comments during auditions, such as, "Holding your foot above your head IN YOUR HEADSHOT is a BAD IDEA!"
- The cast of Tony-winning musical In The Heights went to Washington Heights to help clean up the neighborhood.
- TLC will blur out the Ed Hardy and Christian Audigier logos on Jon Gosselin's shirts. The Daily News says, "The network's passive-aggressive move hinders Jon's reported attempt to land an endorsement deal with the clothing label."
- And two weeks away from your girlfriend in Europe can sometimes teach you more about your relationship than you ever wanted to know.
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