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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A gas main break on Sneden Ave on Staten Island, an injured firefighter on N Moore St in Manhattan and a working fire at Webster Ave & E 168 St in the Bronx.
- The stock indices jumped 2+% today—the Dow is now at a new 2009 high, 10,226 points.
- The man arrested in connection with a Central Park mugging was released because he wasn't picked from a police lineup.
- An Australian study found that low-fat diets make people less angry than low-carb ones.
- Plastic surgery enthusiast Jocelyne Wildenstein is accused of stiffing workers at her Trump World Tower apartment.
- Lance Armstrong bikes up the West Side Highway to Piermont or rides in Central Park when he's in town. Of the loop, he says, "Best urban riding in the world... A lot of hours of the day it's closed to traffic. There's nothing like Central Park."
- Connecticut governor Jodi Rell isn't seeking re-election next year. Rell became governor when governor John Rowland stepped down after a corruption scandal.
- Because Soho is "no longer a bastion of the art world the way it was," neighborhood mainstay Zoë is closing after almost 18 years in business.
- And a big rig truck drove off San Francisco's Bay Bridge. The driver died and it's the 42nd crash on the "S-curve" in the past two months.
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