- Derek Jeter, the product of an interracial marriage, gets hate mail for his interracial dating habits
- Weehawken Street has the most do-no-urinate signs per square foot in all of the city
- Will outdoor showers be the new black of luxury apartments? Not if Gothamist can help it
- John Gotti Jr. is free on $7 million bond; Curtis Sliwa watches and waits
- Big Pussy pleads guilty to assaulting his girlfriend while on the streets of East SoHo, Northern Little Italy, or NoLiTa
- Oprah Winfrey will get to try out her David Merrick ambitions and produce the musical version of The Color Purple; no word if she'll be giving away purple cars at the premiere
- Brian Lehrer tackles what the Mayor's done with education in the first 30 Issues in 30 Days segment on WNYC