Here's some news that will be of zero interest to anyone attending Fashion Week: fast food chain Arby's, "purveyor of all manner of sliced roast beef sandwiches," says it plans to open 41 locations in New York City. [NYO]

Primary elections took place yesterday. Of course you know that because you went to the polls last night and exercised your democratic rights. Didn't you? In any event, nothing too exciting took place. Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver managed to hold on to his seat. And there will be no former reality TV contestants representing New York in Congress. There's always next time! [NYT, NYDN]

Hope a Fox News production assistant has been dispatched to pick up a big box of cupcakes: right-wing cable blowhard Bill O'Reilly is celebrating his 59th birthday today. Fellow News Corp. employee (and Irishman) Keith Kelly is turning 54. Guy Ritchie is celebrating his 40th. Manorexic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is 75 (although he tells people he's only 70). Ryan Phillippe is 34. Nightlife vet Tracy Westmoreland is 52. British actor Colin Firth is 48. Golfing great Arnold Palmer is 79. Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry is 58. And Sanjaya Malakar, the former American Idol contestant best known for his hair styling talents, is turning 19.

• Raffaello Follieri is expected to appear in court later this morning and plead guilty to wire fraud and money laundering, a deal that will land him a jail term of 51 to 63 months. [NYP]

• A battered Lehman Brothers plans to spin off the majority of its real estate investments into a new company and sell more than half its interest in its investment management division. The bank also predicted a third-quarter loss of $3.9 billion. [WSJ, Dealbook]

The Fashion Week crowd will take a break from discussing hemlines and turn its attention this evening to the other big (and possibly more important?) story dominating the media: the upcoming presidential election. A fundraiser for Barack Obama will take place tonight at Charles Nolan's Chelsea studio. Expected to attend: Anna Wintour (who sat alongside a dour Natalie Portman at Derek Lam's show earlier today, left), Sarah Jessica Parker, and André Leon Talley, among others. The Obamas won't be there, but they'll gladly scoop up the $5,000 checks that buy admission to the VIP party beginning at 6:30pm.

Thomas P. Campbell has been selected to replace Philippe de Montebello as the Metropolitan Museum's new director. [Met Museum via Unbeige]

• George Gurley's brilliant survey of the social scenesters you'll find hanging out at the Beatrice Inn. [Gawker]

Think it's easy being a rich art collector and the husband of a supermodel? Think again. Just consider the upkeep required of Peter Brant to keep Jeff Koons's famous 40-foot-tall Westie, which is made out of flowers and greenery, in tip-top shape: "Every spring, the reinstallation of "Puppy" requires 10 men to labor for 12 days." [T Mag]

Yet another good reason to upgrade your old cell phone: police commissioner Ray Kelly announced today that potential crime stoppers can now send in videos to 911 via their mobile devices. In case the timing of the announcement has confused you, crimes against fashion do not count. Those should continue to be directed to Robert Verdi. [City Room]

• Catfight! Marie Claire will be launching a reality show on the Style network called Running in Heels. The show will follow staffers like Nina Garcia and is expected to compete with archrival Anne Slowey's Stylista on the CW. [NYO, AdAge]

Dick Wolf, what have you done? Crime shows, we're now being told, are to blame for people's overeating and overspending. The likes of Law and Order, CSI, and Cold Case, with their unrelenting stream of random homicides, remind viewers of their mortality. This, says a study from the Journal of Consumer Research, triggers a desire to shop and eat, in order to somehow guard against your lifeless body being discovered by a dog walker in Central Park, and all your family and co-workers being placed under suspicion, until the real perp is fingered around 38 minutes later. So what this really means, in fact, is the marriage of two treasured American traditions: primetime entertainment about vicious crime and brutality, and obesity and debt being totally not our fault!

Shares in Lehman Brothers plummeted by 40 percent today after it was reported that talks to sell a stake in the fourth-largest investment bank to Korea's KDP had ended. If you work there and you've yet to dust off your resume, tonight would be a good time to do so. [Reuters, Dealbreaker]

Although what we're about to tell you will come as a huge shock, try to stay calm, and we'll keep our fingers crossed that nothing else so completely unexpected occurs today. Rich, young socialitey-model, Alice Dellal, the face of Agent Provocateur, sometimes snorts cocaine! We know, it's unbelievable. But it gets worse: She allowed herself to be photographed next to a DVD case with the drug actually on it! Does she not realize that the modeling world she inhabits abhors such behavior? Almost as much as it abhors calorie control, cigarettes, and extreme youth.

Ed Koch endorsed Barack Obama for president this morning, news that came as something of a surprise considering he endorsed Bush in 2004. So what made up his mind? Obama's views on gay rights, perhaps? Koch says it had more to do with his distaste for Sarah Palin: "Frankly, it would scare me if she were to succeed John McCain in the presidency." [NY1, Politico]

If you were hanging around the tents yesterday, you might have seen people clutching a little black booklet, an illustrated guide to some of the familiar (and not-so-familiar) faces attending the shows during Fashion Week. In honor of the events in Bryant Park, we put a handy facebook together, just so no one would—God forbid!—get their magazine editors or socialites mixed up. If you weren't one of the lucky ones to get a hard copy, have no fear. We've posted it online. For a lower-resolution version, click here. For a copy in PDF format, click here.

Petra Nemcova (left) taking a stroll through the Village after lunch at Da Silvano ... Sarah Jessica Parker leaving her townhouse in the West Village ... Jeremy Piven taking a walk downtown with a mystery blonde ... Whitney Port eating a salad with friends ... Uma Thurman walking down the front steps of her West Village townhouse ... Nicole Richie leaving Starbucks with baby Harlow, and later leaving her hotel en route to a dinner with Mary-Kate Olsen ... Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry going shopping at Calvin Klein ... Keira Knightley heading inside for a taping of the Charlie Rose Show ... Helena Christensen and Sofia Coppola arriving at Bryant Park for the Marc Jacobs show ... and Jennifer Lopez and Victoria Beckham posing together for photos outside Marc's show before going to dinner.

Back in July, the NYPD revealed that it planned to set up cameras across the city and track every single car that came into town. Based on London's "Ring of Steel" program, the NYPD plan calls for the installation of some 3,000 security cameras, mostly in lower Manhattan. As you might expect, the New York Civil Liberties Union isn't so jazzed about a plan that would allow the city to keep track of you every waking minute of the day. Yesterday the group filed suit against Ray Kelly and the NYPD over the department's refusal to share information about how it actually plans to carry out the program. The full suit after the jump.

• Anne Waterman, SVP and fashion director at Michael Kors, has purchased a third-floor apartment at 130 East 67th Street for $1.6 million. The two-bedroom co-op features two fireplaces and a walk-in closet. [Cityfile]

Remember when P. Diddy posted a video a few weeks ago ranting that the cost of gas was making it too expensive for him to fly on his private jet? One small problem! He doesn't actually own a private jet. Reporters at the Palm Beach Post combed through aviation records to find evidence of this Diddy-owned aircraft. They didn't turning anything up. Nor could they account for Diddy's claim that flying back and forth from New York to LA twice a month cost him $250,000. (At the most, it would run in the neighborhood of $100,000.) Diddy's response? His publicist now admits he doesn't actually "own" a jet, but he does use NetJets from time to time, and isn't that close enough?