- The City Council starts working on keeping carriages and horses in Central Park
- Breaking and entering into an abandoned warehouse for dinner is the new new
- Remember the guy who put a camera in his shopping bag to take upskirt videos? He was sentenced to six months
- Stanley Crouch weighs in on the cellphone ban in schools
- NY State smoking age could go up to 19; what a year does, we're not so sure
- Michelle at You Can't Make It Up goes to the Museum of Television and Radio and revisits a classic Sesame Street episode
- Felix Salmon compares the art market to the real estate market: "...sellers look for price and buyers look for whatever they can afford."
- And A.M. Rosenthal, NY Times executive editor from 1977 to 1988, died at age 84; the Times calls him "a principal architect of the modern New York Times" and he "expanded the weekday paper from two to four parts, including separate metropolitan and business news sections, and inaugurated new feature sections for weekdays: SportsMonday, Science Times on Tuesdays, the Living section on Wednesdays, the Home section on Thursdays and Weekend on Fridays."

Photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge from cornershots on Flickr