Extra, Extra

- $500m spending cap for WTC Memorial? Not likely!
- An 81 year old man was attacked and robbed in his Washington Heights apartment building elevator
- Fox 5 went on the fritz last night - we think of it as slight justice for Rupert Murdoch effing up the channel 9 schedule
- A Bryant Park webcam for those us stuck in our offices to envy those who get to leave
- The skatebowl in Greenpoint is a-okay after the fire
- Ooh, the defense in the Herald Square subway bomb plotter wants Police Commissioner Kelly to testify
- Transit union head Roger Toussaint is trying to stick it to scabs
- Voices have been cast in the movie adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are" (Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Williams, Forest Whitaker), but did anyone read the New Yorker feature on Maurice Sendak a couple weeks ago - he was complaining about the sketches director Spike Jonze was sending!
- The West Village Historical District is expanding-- prosies on Weehawken Street rejoice!
- Probably a good idea: cop-killer wants separate trial
- Here's a good profile of Newark's Corey Booker. Odd fact: he was the head of the Jewish student league at Oxford!
- Finally, a good tour of Greenwood Cemetery from Forgotten-NY.

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