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• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Utica Ave. in Brooklyn, an attempted bank robbery on East Fordham Rd. in the Bronx, and a large tree down on East 114th St. and 91st Ave. in Queens..
• Buzz over the much-anticipated J.J. Abrams feature code-named "Cloverfield" has precipitated to something much more solid: a feature named "Cloverfield." The Internet's been speculating about the horror-thriller with a trailer that includes the decapitation of the Statue of Liberty for months.
• Writers' strike be damned, late night hosts like Letterman, Leno, and Conan may be back on the air sooner rather than later.
• ConEd is shutting down its last direct current power plant in New York, which was located in Midtown East Manhattan. New York's first power plant was on Pearl St. and founded by Thomas Edison himself, who favored direct to the more currently prevalent alternating current.
• A Brooklyn man was arrested for allegedly marking cards at CT's Mohegan Sun casino in a game of Texas Hold 'Em.
• Today was the last day of New Yorkers for apply for relief aid after August's damaging storms. Applicants can call 1-800-621-FEMA, or apply through www.fema.gov.
• A thief shot himself, after attempting to shove a gun in his pants during a Long Island home invasion.
• Sen. Fred Thompson and L&O alumnus returns to NYC.

September 3: West Indian–American Day Carnival

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Utica Ave. in Brooklyn, a triple shooting on West 166th St. in the Bronx, and an accidental officer shooting on Jamaica Ave. in Queens.
• Noted New York opera tenor Jerry Hadley has been removed from life support. Hadley shot himself in the head with an air rifle last week.
• Members of the band Radiohead are in town, mastering their latest album after a four-year hiatus.
• More proof that Ronaldo Martinez is helping New Yorkers stop smoking: the New York Times profiles the anti-smoking advocate, whose primary appeal to the cause is that he scares the bejeezus out of smokers with an electronic tracheal voicebox.
• A transit cop encountered a distraught woman on a Times Square subway platform, who said that she had been kidnapped, strapped to a couch, and repeatedly raped by various men over a five-day period.
• Mediabistro is reporting that someone got an advance copy of the latest Harry Potter novel and published photographed pages on the Internet.
• An animal protection group on Long Island is offering a reward to find the person who tied a dog to a tree, apparently doused it with gasoline, and then lit the animal on fire Monday. The dog succumbed to its injuries today.

Anyone who has attempted to walk or bike from one side of Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza to another knows that it can be a difficult journey, through which a constantly swiveling head is required to keep an eye on traffic coming from seemingly every direction. The above overhead image shows just a portion of the plaza where five different roads converge in an inner traffic loop, including Eastern Parkway and Prospect Park West, and the entire site is bisected by Flatbush Ave. It's also a destination for pedestrians and cyclists. Aside from the plaza's Memorial Arch and Bailey Fountain, Grand Army Plaza is the northwest entrance to Prospect Park, hosts a weekend greenmarket, and is the location of the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.

Subway riders from Inwood to the Rockaways should steel themselves, because those delays they experienced yesterday were planned and should continue for the next five weekends. The A and C lines are undergoing track work to replace 70-year-old rails.