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What would Regis and Kelly say! This week some TD Bank customers found that their direct deposits hadn't posted to their accounts—a big mess, since many rely on, you know, having funds to pay bills. A commenter on Consumerist fumed that an expected Tuesday direct deposit only showed up yesterday, "Seriously - I trust these dummies with my money?"

The Brooklyn resident whose name caused him $2.1 million of trouble is still being held at Rikers, but a judge lowered his bail from $1 million to $10,000.

If a bank teller told you had an unknown bank account with $5.8 million in it and the bank insisted it's yours, wouldn't you spend it? That's what Brooklyn resident Benjamin Lovell did - and now he's paying.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an abduction on 117th St. and Madison Ave. in Manhattan, someone robbed the Commerce Bank on 5th Ave. in Brooklyn, and serious trauma at The Marina Restaurant on Jerome Ave. and Clifford Pl. in the Bronx.
• Tommy Monahan, the 9-year-old boy who died in a fire last week attempting to rescue his pets, wrote a book about his dog Sophy.
• If you're wondering where your fare hike dollars will wind up, a good portion will be in the pockets of lawyers who work at some of the most profitable and expensive legal firms in the country.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a missing child on 42nd St. and 2nd Ave. in Manhattan, someone robbed the Commerce Bank on Fresh Pond Rd. in Queens, and a severed limb on West 183rd St. in Manhattan.
• Someone in Richmond, Indiana won the Powerball lottery with a prize of $314 million and change. Mega-Millions is up to $250 million, however, so if you feel you're in want of a quarter-billion dollars or perhaps just $1 too rich, go for it.
• New York Press reported that bidding for the hacked iPhone allowing a different carrier than AT&T was up to $15,600.
• The Times has a piece on the Reggae Carifest, which was being protested against for the inclusion of performers whose songs are anti-gay. The paper characterizes the show as a disappointing bust.
• An inspector with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found a guard at a security gate at the Indian Point nuclear facility asleep on the job. The NRC downgraded Indian Point's safety rating earlier this year after a number of unscheduled automatic shutdowns.
• A 60-acre park in Ridgway, CO was recently dedicated to actor Dennis Weaver, who died last year. In the 1970s series "McCloud," Weaver played Sam McCloud, a New Mexico deputy who brought his Western crime-fighting skills to the streets of NYC.
• 30,000 respirator masks distributed to members of the NYPD (they can normally be seen in a pouch strapped to cops' legs) have been recalled by the manufacturer as possibly defective.
• Someone with an IP address associated with the American Enterprise Institute entered the Wikipedia fray last September, when they altered an entry on Mayor Bloomberg to read "F--k this turd."

Once upon a time at the corner of West 63rd and Broadway, there was a 6,000 square foot stationery store called Lincoln Stationers, where you could find airmail envelopes, buy a snazzy pen and order your wedding invitations. But Lincoln Stationers closed last year and a Starbucks and Duane Reade rose in its place - exactly what the neighborhood was in desperate need of, because the only other Starbucks and Duane Reades are 4-5 blocks away!

There's an interesting NY Times New York region op-ed that's supportive of marketing ventures most anywhere, like Geico's unsuccessful George Washington Bridge toll plaza marketing deal.

February is the city's first I Love NYC Pets month! Various city agencies and animal rescue are having adoption events in all five boroughs to encourage people to start their year with a pet. . In fact, there are many events at Manhattan Commerce Bank locations today.

broadway-nassau by joe holmes.

the Kirbys had grown up in a Catskills cult, being "psychologically abused" in a "strange 'hyper-religious'" community. Joe Kirby was "kept him in line by doling out punishments like being locked in a closet or forced to stand naked in front of a group of adults." The Kirbys were put into foster care after they escaped, and they both fell into drugs, with Joe turning tricks to support his habit. An friend from upstate said, "She's not going to rob no bank. Every once in a while, she might go to Wal-Mart and 'pick up' a ChapStick, but she didn't have the mentality to rob a bank."

A follow up to the story about the relatively fashionable and young bankrobbing duo: It turns out they are brother and sister and have robbed a total of three places this month. And what's more, Joe Kirby and Shemini Kirby were arrested after the cops staked out a methadone clinic when Joe was getting treatment. The Daily News reports that 20th Precinct cops suspected that the robbers were drug addicts, and once they busted Joe, he turned and agreed to call his sister and tell him to meet her to rob a bank on West 57th. Must have been desperate times to give up his sister. Joe, who did the robbing, and Shemini, who was lookout, robbed Independence Bank, North Fork Bank, and Commerce Bank branches this month - and all these banks seem to be ones with the "friendlier" style set-ups.

Every day we throw our pocket change into a little box by the door, and once every six months or so, we sit down and roll it into bank coin wrappers while watching television. Sure, we could just take it to one of the coin-sorting machines at the local Commerce Bank, but rolling coins is relaxing and it only takes about an hour to roll a couple of hundred bucks worth of coins. Anyway, the other night we were doing this, and noticed something strange: we had 360 quarters, 200 dimes, 80 nickels and 300 pennies. Quarters, dimes, and nickels seemed really overrepresented-- and pennies were strangely scarce!

One of the first thing that came to Gothamist's mind when we first heard about the subway bag searches was "what does this mean for all those subway hopping drug dealers?" Apparently we weren't the only ones wondering, as New York Magazine's Intelligencer tackles the question this week (in short: the searches suck for them and some, especially coke runners, are adding a 'cab tax' in response).

Ooh: The Parks Department is looking to rent out the Coney Island icon, The Cyclone. While the current leaseholder for the Cyclone, Astroland, says the city is happy with their performance, with an Astroland spokesman saying Astroland owners, the Albert family, "do an excellent job of keeping it in prime operating condition, despite the extremely hostile environment to both wood and metal." Not to mention the riders themselves. The city is required to bid out the Cyclone's contact every ten years, so the city is adding things like new brakes (very important!) and new ticket booths as improvements to the contract. According to the Post, the Cyclone's current annual rent is $106,000, or 12% of the gross revenue; last year, the ride brought in $1.2 million. Gothamist imagines that Astroland will do what they need to in order to keep the contract, but our fear would be some corporation takes it over and call it "The Commerce Bank Cyclone" - we hope there's a clause that says an operator can't change the name!

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Gothamist remembers when everyone and their mother wanted to take karate after The Karate Kid (more about The Karate Kid), but taking up martial arts is a great way to learn about self-defense. And one of Gothamist's favorite Seinfeld episodes is the one where Kramer takes up karate and becomes the most feared student in his dojo. Of course, all the other students are kids.