Extra, Extra

- The drunk driver who killed a Staten Island teen tried to kill himself in the holding cell
- The Mayor chooses his seventh and final deputy mayor
- We've just wasted many precious minutes looking at Rate My Professors, thanks to the Village Voice article about it - and we are disturbed that a septungenarian prof of ours was deemed "hot" (but he is an awesome teacher)
- An awful murder of a seven year old seems to have taken place in Brooklyn
- Newyorkology looks at some beautiful art deco hotel designs
- Robert Altman is getting this year's honorary Oscar, aka the booby prize for awesome directors who are always nominated but never win
- And this awesome picture of a subway car being taken from the yard to the tracks (we assume) is from ursonate on Flickr