- Some families of September 11 victims want to block the building of Santiago Calatrava's PATH Transit Hub at Ground Zero
- The NYPD is offering $12,000 for information leading to an arrest in the murder of Chinese food delivery man Fahua Chen, raising the total to $13,000; his daughter was also granted a visa to come to the U.S.
- The Washington Square redesign has been nixed
- Bill Gates visited Columbia University, showing the new XBox 360 as well as showing the kids he's not as nerdy as everyone makes him out to be
- City Council members are in a tizzy about who will be the next Speaker
- The city is looking for extra help in shoveling snow: $10/hour for the first 40 hours, then $15/hour after that
- Temporary custody of little Valery Lozado, the girl who left on a Queens street by her mother's boyfriend after he killed her, has been granted to her maternal grandmother
- Holy, Jake Ryan from Sixteen Candles is sporting a braid in Long Island City? Gawker Stalker has more!
- And Verizon CEO is donating $15 million to Pace University