Extra, Extra

- Yikes: the City Housing Authority wants to raise the rent on some people in the projects by more than 40%!
- Sharpe James shenanigans: the retiring Newark mayor wants to keep control of $80 million or so.
- Villager follows up on the squatters from "The Cave" on 8th Street: they each got only $2500 to leave.
- Not surprising: Jared Paul Stern got fired from the Post over those extortion allegations. Mildly surprising: all the other freelancers at Page Six also got the axe.
- Sunset Park to get a new, um, park: 23 acres of brownfields along the water will be cleaned up.
- What's on chef Anthony Bourdain's ipod? "I'm Deranged" by David Bowie! Obviously.
- There's a ROBOT PARADE tomorrow at noon under the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO (Pearl Street, between York and Front Streets.) Seriously!

And some bad news from Kelly Moss at the Shake Shack: "I wanted to give you another heads up that Shake Shack’s web cam will not be up and running by Monday, as originally anticipated. We are working very hard right now to make sure that when it’s up it is the best it can be, so we are still ironing out a few details. I will let you know as soon as we’re ready to go live." Dang!

Photo by QueenEsther on Flickr: "art students dressed for their favorite ellsworth kelly painting at the met, posing for a photo. "