Email Scan: A GPS Device

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We scan the inbox so you don't have to. Today, only one item of note:

FROM: Best Bets Daily
SUBJECT: The Mio Digiwalker C230 Portable Car Navigation System
MESSAGE: A portable GPS device.

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FROM: Thrillist
SUBJECT: Belcourt (84 E 4th St at Second Ave, 212-228-8414)
MESSAGE: A restaurant opening Friday in the East Village.
DISCARDED: "Oftentimes, a haphazard outward appearance may be the result of painstaking deliberateness -- for proof, look no further than Jimmy Fallon's hair," "what's more French than drunk children"

FROM: DailyCandy
SUBJECT: Weekend Guide
MESSAGE: Exhibition A Psychic Vacuum is on view in the Essex St. Market (117 Delancey St at Essex St, 212-206-6674) through October 28th; exhibition Out There is on view now at the Art Students League of New York, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery (215 W 57th St between Seventh Ave and Broadway, 212-247-4510); French restaurant Belcourt (84 E 4th St at Second Ave, 212-979-2034) is opening tomorrow, and Baked (359 Van Brunt St between Dikeman and Wolcott Sts, Red Hook; 718-222-0345) is now selling caramel apples, though you have to order them in advance.

FROM: RareDaily
SUBJECT: Weekend guide
MESSAGE: Restaurant/bar Label (174 Rivington St between Clinton and Attorney Sts, 212-228-9600) is open, Shacktoberfest runs Friday October 5th through Sunday October 14th at the Shake Shack (Madison Square Park, Southeast corner, Madison Ave at 23rd St, 212-889-6600), Compass (208 W 70th St at Amsterdam Ave, 212-875-8600) is offering a three-course prix-fixe dinner and 50% off bottles of wine on Sundays, and Murray's (254 Bleecker St nr Seventh Ave, 212-243-3289) is hosting a Grilled Cheese Class on Tuesday October 9th at 6:30pm.

FROM: UrbanBaby Daily
SUBJECT: Weekend guide
MESSAGE: A photographer is shooting kids with their fav security objects for an art exhibition Saturday and Sunday at Pomme (81 Washington St, Dumbo, Brooklyn; 718-855-0623), there's an open house tour of Governor's Island on Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm, kids and adults can enjoy the music stylings of Milkshake performing on Saturday at 11am at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater (2537 Broadway at 95th St, 212-864-5400), and puppet show Comet in Moominland is going on Fridays through Sundays at The Duke on 42nd Street (229 W 42nd St between Seventh and Eighth Aves, 646-223-3010).

FROM: Juli B
SUBJECT: A timely list of events/new restaurants/new products
MESSAGE: The Moncler puffer boot is available at Barneys (660 Madison Ave between 60th and 61st Sts, 212-826-8900), the International Art + Design Fair is taking place from October 5th through the 10th at the Park Avenue Armory (Park Ave at 67th St, 212-472-0590), Hotel le bleu (370 Fourth Ave at 5th St, Park Slope, Brooklyn; 718-625-1500) opens mid-October, the Fifth Annual Gourmet Institute is taking place from October 19th through the 21st, restaurant Allen & Delancey (115 Allen St at Delancey, 212-253-5400) has finally opened, and shaving boutique ê shave (211 E 43rd St at Third Ave, 212-983-1515) is also now open.