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While their playoff series hasn't been close on the ice, fans of the Rangers and Devils seem to be battling in the stands by showing their team pride. The NY Times and Robert Caplin takes a look today at some of the different outfits the fans are sporting in the stands.

There is the loveliest story in the NY Times today about Yuki Endo, a young man who lives on the Upper Side and how he loves the city so much. The article, in fact, is titled, "He Loves New York, and It Loves Him Right Back," as Endo has befriended pretty much everyone in his neighborhood, from firefighters to security guards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from classmates to people he meets on the subway, as he lives the city. Endo is disabled, born without chromosome 18, which "makes it hard for him to speak clearly." Even still, for living in the city for 10 years, Endo might know the city better than most New Yorkers.

Yuki is fascinated with the tiniest of the city's intricacies: the toll-free number (#3333) dialed at subway pay phones to hear automated service information and changes; the elevator at the Met that people often confuse for a gallery room when the doors are open because of its wood paneling and display case; the long-forgotten news that earlier this month southbound F trains were operating on the D line from West Fourth Street to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue, an announcement of which Yuki carried in his backpack.

-Not surprisingly (though the Post seems to think it is), many New York would like to sleep with Angelina Jolie.

Just as word comes around that 75% of the Gotham is OK with bag searches ("Even in a city touchy about civil rights, New Yorkers pick a bag search over the threat of being blown up... But most voters don't want to give government too much power.") the MTA talks up its security camera plan (again! but seriously, now this is on the fast track...).

- you wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and there's a boa...

In the eight days since it started randomly checking the NYPD has gone through thousands of bags in subway, bus and commuter train stations across the city. And the results have been negligible, which is a good thing according to the NYPD. The Times reports that in it's first week of operation the bag searches have led to one arrest for possession of illegal fireworks, no legal challenges and minimal resistance (those T-shirts don't count).

The NY Times reports that the Mayor's approval ratings are still on the rise. While his rating is at a stellar (for him) 50%, the NY Times tempers that news by running terrible photograph of him (right) - he looks exactly like a Sleestack! Of course, higher voter approvals can be helped out by sophisticated voter analysis and spending $1 million weekly on TV media. People are giving him credit for paying attention the public schools (though how much credit he should get is under debate), for helping the economy, and housing policies, but others are wary of him after the whole West Side Stadium affair. Gothamist expects the Democratic candidates to continue to refine their messages, with a little more than 10 weeks till the primary (September 13); Fernando Ferrer still leads, but it's anyone game. And if you're not registered to vote, do so now!