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Today, many businesses are closed in honor of President's Day. Wall Street is closed, as are banks, government offices and schools. There's no regular garbage pickup, but the Department of Sanitation will be picking up garbage that has been stranded due to last week's storm.

+ Razorapple visited the soon-to-be-destroyed Hewitt Building on Third Avenue. Apparently, the grad students getting evicted from their studio spaces are really pissed off.

- $36,200 to block terrorists from raising money in Kentucky bingo halls.If NYC set up more bingo halls...

The Statue of Liberty won't need to worry about Con Ed having another blackout and dousing the light in her torch: The General Services Administration will get power from wind turbines. The Post reported that the GSA signed a three year contract for wind power to light the statue, plus Ellis Island, from upstate and other states, so no freaking out there the government will be putting huge windmills on Ellis Island - we're guessing the wind mills are situated near the Albany, because there's lots of wind up there from those windbags. But this make Gothamist wonder about having wind farms off the water in the city - those wind gusts from the water can be fierce.

The official National Parks Department Statue of Liberty site where visitor information is available; you can make reservations for visits by calling 1-866-STATUE-4.