• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A murder-suicide on East 176th Street in the Bronx, a confined space rescue at 680 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and a sexual assault at Victory Blvd & Bay St. in Staten Island
• Breaking: The city and families of September 11 victims have worked out a compromise for this year's anniversary events; the city will allow families to enter the pit at Ground Zero.
• The Dow dropped 387 points today - causes included worries about funds and subprime lending.
• Lenora Fulani repudiates her 1989 remarks calling Jews "mass murderers of people of color" and thinks about running for mayor in 2009.
• After three women rejected three Staten Island guys, the guys allegedly bashed in the ladies' car windows, possibly confirming why the women rejected them in the first place.
• The John Travolta connection to yesterday's tornado.
• Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens is being suspended for five games, after intentionally drilling a Toronto Blue Jays player. Question 1 : Will the Yankees have to pay him for those missed games? Question 2: Did you see him on Mythbusters' Baseball Myths show last night?
• Since the Money Honey loves the fur coat she wears in More magazine, PETA calls her "morally bankrupt"
• Police arrested the man accused of stabbing a Brighton Beach father on his way home from buying milk.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery at Victory Blvd. and Lester St. on Staten Island, a fall victim down a trench at Carlton and Park Aves. in Brooklyn, and a construction accident on West 30th St. and 10th Ave. in Manhattan.
• If you have Time Warner Digital Cable and are interested in transit issues, get NY1's In Transit on demand; the Daily News' Peter Donahue shared some interesting insights about the transit worker deaths with Bobby Cuza.
• Brooklyn photographer Spencer Tunick convinced 18,000 people to get naked in Mexico City's main square so he could photograph them. Yes, there is a slideshow after the link.
• Alerted by a foul smell coming from her daughter's closet, a Queens mother found the body of an infant stuffed into a bag. She took the infant to the hospital, but the child had been dead for approximately a week.
• A presumably former Mr. Chow waiter is suing the eponymous chain's owner for $5 million, after Chow allegedly kicked him and made him lie on the floor during a staff meeting as punishment for showing up late.
• The Bedford Police Dept. is following a trail of clues in the homicide of a homeless man found dead by the side of the road by impounding two police cars from neighboring Mt. Kisco in Westchester. The body of Guatemalan immigrant Rene Perez was found an hour after he had dialed 911 for the Mt. Kisco police. Responding Mt. Kisco officers said he did not have a police matter and left him, considering the incident closed.
• The NYPD is in the process of replacing Polaroid cameras with digital ones, in order to enhance the prosecution of domestic abuse cases by providing better images of victims' injuries.
• New York's Daily Intelligencer has early sketches of what might be in store for the Hudson Yards development on Manhattan's West Side.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery at 59-23 Main St. in Queens, a partial collapse of a house being renovated in Wingate, Brooklyn, and a pedestrian was struck at Clove Rd. and Victory Blvd. on Staten Island.
• The idiot fan arrested at a Mets game the other week plead guilty to attempting to blind Braves players with a high-powered flashlight. His sentence: 15 days in jail and a three two-year ban from home games at Shea and at the team's new Citi-Field for three one year.
• The National Transportation Safety Board released the final results of its investigation Corey Lidle's plane crash: The pilot misjudged a u-turn over the East River, crashing into a highrise buildings and it's still unclear who was flying at the time.
• Brownstoner.com is passing on a story about residents of a Brooklyn Heights co-op who had to vacate because of an older resident who seems have fire-starter tendencies.
• Some observers hinted that Tishman-Speyer may have overpaid when it bought the former New York Times building in 2004, but the real estate company is the one laughing all the way to the bank after unloading it at triple the price ($525 million) three years later.
• Love it or hate, you can schedule your prospective condo buying or protesting for the next nine years with this timeline map of the Atlantic Yards development.
• The Baltimore Police are not happy with a Brooklyn man who made more than 250 911 calls to them in a month-long period, once reporting that a Baltimore officer had been shot. He is also accused of making nearly 400 hoax calls to call centers in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
• The driver of a stolen SUV being pursued by police struck a private special-ed school's mini-bus, overturning it in Douglaston, Queens. Eight students, a driver, and an escort were injured in the crash, the escort seriously.

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