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After a weekend full of disappointments and facing a week when everyone is on vacation (be it mental or otherwise), thank God we have some sort of news to strengthen our hope that, no matter what, NYC IS EDGY:

So 53rd Street between 5th & 6th has been shut down for the last hour because some yahoo left their enormous black suitcase chained to the bike rack outside MoMA and the Museum of Arts & Design. They shut down the street and cleared everyone out while the big bad bomb squad came to take care of business. Luckily for all of us stupidly watching through the window it was nothing but a suitcase of souvenirs from some hapless tourist who apparently has missed the memo about unattended baggage. Said belongings are now spread all over 53rd Street. Nothing like a man in a giant green hazmat suit to make the day go quickly. (Although I really was hoping for one of those bomb robots )

We've long insisted that the biggest threats to NYC are those slow-moving masses of tourists in fannypacks. But does anyone listen? No, of course not.

Now go run and get yourself a free snow globe before HazMat blows that shit up.