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At last night's Beard Ball, by Katie Sokoler/Gothamist
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: body found in Harlem, bank robbery in Chelsea, animal shot by police in Queens.
- Would you start watching American Idol again if Howard Stern took over for Simon Cowell?
- Today was the annual "Running of the Brides" event at Filene's Basement, the annual celebration of discount consumption and hair-pulling.
- New York City has finally started to demolish some of its outdated high-rise housing projects. Low-rise mixed-income housing will replace them.
- Bernie Madoff's palatial duplex apartment on 64th Street has been sold— no word on the final price yet.
- Congrats to the couple that got engaged in the Statue of Liberty's crown this morning!
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