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New York City as Ohio? The NY Times says it's so, as film productions take advantage of the city's new tax breaks to encourage production money come to the Big Apple. Freelance location scout Mark Bodnar ran down how the city can be transformed into almost anywhere:

For the rural South? "I'd head to Rockaway Beach and all those great abandoned Army barracks there."

The Mayor was crowing about how the Republican National Convention was a boon for New York City, bringing in $255 million during the dog days of August, but other businesses are saying it ain't so, with higher end businesses doing well and more mom-and-pop operations (especially around Madison Square Garden) doing only okay. The Beacon Hill Institute tells the NY Times that NYC did better than Boston, but that the city's $255 million figure will be offset by $100 million in losses. For his money, Mayor Bloomberg added that he'd like the Democratic AND Republican conventions in 2008; Gothamist admits that the idea of two conventions will make us consider a summer sabbatical.

- And someone stole a list of email addresses from prospective volunteers to the convention. The volunteers received an email purporting to be from the volunteer committee and telling them to visit various Internet hate sites. That's real classy. We can't imagine why someone who is protesting the Republican Convention would do something as assy as that, so Gothamist assumes it's some random idiot, versus a partisan one, though you never know.

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