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The traditional way to know what color the Empire State Building is to look at the building's website. But plain text can be lacking, which is where What Color is the Empire State Building comes in.

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: An armored robbery in Queens, a boat in distress east of the Steeplechase Pier in Brooklyn and a school bus accident in Staten Island. The bids are in for the West Side Yards, and the companies that submitted them are Extell Development Company, Brookfield Properties Developer LLC, The Related Companies, TS West Side Holding, LLC (A Joint Venture of Tishman Speyer and Morgan Stanley), and Hudson Center East LLC...

Sleet, by Callalillie.

Yesterday was the NY Road Runners Club's 30th Annual Empire State Building Run-up. And, yes, the runners were wearing shorts and T-shirts when they emerged on the skyscraper's roof. Thomas Dold (above, left) of Germany won the men's race in 10 minutes and 25 seconds while Suvy Walsham (above, right) of Singapore (and Australia, apparently) won the women's in 13 minutes 12 seconds. (American Cindy Moll-Harris finished second, at 13:24.)

- The DHS tried not to be political about things!Okay, many of these points are fair, but we do think that when the city pays about $10.9 billion more in federal taxes than we get back from federal spending, our agencies needs more resources. And Gothamist thinks it's totally fair for our politicians and newspapers to make a big deal about the cut in funding, as getting 40% less than last year (yes, yes, other cities are getting less) is news. If anything, Chertoff's duty as the Secretary of Homeland Security is to really convince the President of how important the funding is, and then have the President push his Republican-led Congress to help out Homeland Security initiatives more.

- Rachel Kramer Bussell meets Amy Sedaris and tells her about her cupcake blog!

To be filed in the "totally crazy, harmless stuff that happens on tall buildings": "Renowned daredevil" Jeb Ray Corliss tried to jump off the 86th floor observation deck at the Empire State Building. The only thing is that somebody called in a tip to the police saying this would happen, so security was on the watch and ultimately able to stop him. Of course, Corliss managed to jump over the safety fence and was on the outside, so they had to remove part of the fence to retrieve him! A 15 year old tourist says that she thought he was trying to commit suicide at first and one woman tried to lure Corliss back to the deck with cash. Another tourist told the Post Corliss said, "Look, if you don't let go so I can do this, I'm going to die." The Empire State Building's building manager Timothy Donohue's attitude? "It's New York City, it's rush hour. It is not the time to jump off buildings."

One interesting feature of NYC 24 was Lane Johnson's photoblog of 24 hours (picture, above) in New York City; Johnson ambled along, asking people if he could tag along and take pictures of them as they went on their merry way. Needing to take pictures throughout the day poses some new questions besides the ones we've had about taking pictures for blogs - like finding subjects, figuring out how many pictures one should publish, etc.

The official Empire State Building website. You can check the lighting schedule here. And even though it's a goofy movie, Sleepless in Seattle does incorporate the Empire State Building nicely.