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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A person in a hole in Manhattan, a barricaded EDP at Metropolitan Ave in Brooklyn and a bomb threat on Staten Island.
- City Comptroller John Liu says the NYC's Economic Development Corporation owes the city $125 million. Liu also said of the agency, which is involved in redevelopment projects like Willets Point and Coney Island, "It has become a powerhouse agency, but we have very little understanding of what comes in and out of it."
- A Pennsylvania prosecutor said that Laura Garza, the Brooklyn woman who went missing in 2008 and whose body was found earlier this month, was not killed in Pennsylvania, which means NY will have jurisdiction over the case.
- Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is apparently eyeing a Beaux-Arts Con Ed substation (it was designed by McKim, Mead and White) on the West Side to be a photography museum.
- Neighbors of a crumbling Park Slope brownstone, as well as some City Council members, want to the owner's bank to force him to repair it to sell.
- Alexa Ray Joel got a nose job; she says she's been thinking about one "for years."
- Google and the MTA are going to host an "Unconference" for developers.
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