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Crowd last night outside the Fifth Ave Cube [photo 24gotham/Racked Flickr Pool]
Local
· Bird doing a green in-house line [The Cut]
· Clearance sale beginning today at Century 21 [Madison Avenue Spy]
· What do Starbucks closures mean for NYC? [NY Times]
· Bad economy helping local thrift shops [NY Daily News]
· Strangly-named Murray Hill shoe store escapes shuttering [Urbanite]
National
· Chicago Whole Foods DOH'd for rat droppings [Consumerist]
· Sephora and Dylan's Candy Bar partner up on product line [WWD, subscription req]
International
· Fast-fashion chain Mango opening in Iraq [The Moment]