- Horrible accident in Harlem: An SUV crushed a three-year old in a stroller
- Cops with crew cuts and balding heads "are being forced to hand over chest hair, leg hair and in some cases pubic hair to labs conducting NYPD drug tests"... say it with us: EW! [Daily News]
- This is so going on our Fall Reading List: A book about meat in NYC, Meat Me In Manhattan [via Gridskipper]
- Chad Pennington had a great pre-season game against the Philadelphia Eagles last night; dare we hope for this season?
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art doesn't want its employees to videoblog on the job [via Zach Klein]
- The Post has an item about Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Judge Doris Ling-Cohan, who overturned the city's ban on gay marriage; her parents were immigrants (her father was a laundryman, her mother a seamstress) and she grew up in Chinatown - and even sewn her own robe for the bench

Gothamist hopes everyone has a great Labor Day weekend. If you're still without plans, consider some music or film... and here's New York magazine's summer guide for more.