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Planet New York by Sam Rohn
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: large fight on 46th and Lex, level one called for a man "shot in the genitals, may be self-inflicted", and a bunch of fires all over town.
- Real classy, United States: we've suspended our medical evacuations of patients from Haiti because the States don't know who's picking up the tab.
- Here's a cool timelapse film of the new Cooper Union building being built.
- A Boston tourist got trashed at the Hotel Chandler in Midtown— and when the cops came to arrest him for disorderly conduct, they broke his leg in three places.
- Elderly actor Rip Torn was arrested in Salisbury, CT on Friday night for "allegedly breaking into a bank while drunk and armed with a loaded revolver."
- Urban Outfitters is now selling t-shirts in two color combinations: "White/Charcoal" and "Obama/Black." That is all.
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