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• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a large fight at an election on Eldert Ln. in Brooklyn, a stolen DHL truck on Crown St. in Brooklyn, and a child stabbed on 220th St. and 133th Ave. in Queens.
• Brownstoner notes that the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is looking for nominations for the best buildings in Brooklyn.
• Staten Island Assemblyman Michael Cusick wants 17-year-olds to have the right to vote in elections. We'd be happy to see if we could enable over-18 registered voters to reliably cast ballots in elections.

After many false starts, Trader Joe's announced this week that the grocery store chain would be finally arriving in Brooklyn. The news was heralded by Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz, who was decked out in one of the store's highly visible Hawaiian print shirts and leading a steel drum band at Court St. and Atlantic Ave. The Brooklyn Paper reports that while the grocer will soon move into the landmark Independence Savings Bank building at Court and Atlantic, Brooklynites will be required to trek to Manhattan if they want their "Two-Buck Chuck" wine.

- And New York magazine looks at why viewers OD'd on The O.C., but let's face it, we all wanted Marissa to die.

Of all the borough presidents to get a risque fortune cookie, of course it would be Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz. At a Chinese New Year feast at Ming Gee restaurant, the fortune cookies fortunes were apparently very naughty. The Daily News didn't reprint any of them, except "One good [expletive] deserves another," and though the restaurant received the special, proper-for-public-event fortunes from Dai Hing Lee earlier (with gems like "Brooklyn: In your face and in your heart"), there may have been a mix-up in deliveries from another fortune cookie company. One guest thought the dirty fortunes could have been for a bachelor party, which Gothamist supposes, but having a sexy fortune sort of negates the point of the "...in bed" game. Besides, fortunes in fortune cookies these days are more bromides than actual fortunes.

'cause a strike would be damn gritty.

There's nothing like a mean New Yorker cover to get Brooklyn intellectuals into a huff. Two weeks ago, the cover of the New Yorker featured God's hand banishing Adam and Eve across the Brooklyn Bridge into Brooklyn, in an illustration by Marcellus Hall called "Unaffordable Eden." The Daily News spoke to some enraged Brooklynites, who think the idea of Brooklyn being a second-class borough is outdated, scoffing at Manhattan denizens who think Manhattan is "the entire city," and realtors, who say Manhattanites who move to Brooklyn feel "clever." And, yes, Brooklyn BEEP Marty Markowitz wrote a letter, saying:

I am concerned, however that my copy of the issue may have been missing a second panel, in which the couple realise that what awaits them on the other side of the bridge is not a dark cloud of doom but the promised land itself. High rents might push some residents out of Manhattan, but we Brooklynites welcome these emigres with open arms to our better quality of life, our unrivalled diversity and maybe even a nice brownstone...What better than the hand of God to direct you toward the most divine bagels and lox?

For his part, illustrator Hall told the DN, "Manhattan is still one step up from Brooklyn in terms of where it's at," adding that he loves Brooklyn but the "idea for me was just to depict Manhattan as a paradise." Gothamist found it funny that the DN called the cover controversial, but it's no Hasid kissing African Amercian woman from Art Spiegelman or Saul Steinberg's View of the World. And while the New Yorker definitely epitomizes a certain mindset and attitude, the New Yorker's cartoons and illustrations aren't necessarily the greatest representations of what New York really is.

The Park Slope Armory project is modeled on the Fort Washington Armory in Manhattan, which has a very cool track. And read the Mayor's press releae on the Park Slope Armory project.