Extra, Extra

- Nicholas Minucci was found guilty of a hate crime assault
- A federal court of appeals says the city can't enforce the law that prevents 18-21 year olds from buying spray paint and markers, but the city will appeal again
- An anatomically correct Statue of David in Little Italy freaks out some mothers
- A suspect has been ID'd in the Sunset Park beauty salon rape
- MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow was not phased by the picketing transit workers outside his Fifth Avenue apartment
- Upper East Side greenmarket good news from Upper Green Side: The 82nd Street St. Stephen's location has been approved to expand, and a 92nd Street and First Avenue location will be created - both for opening in July if all goes well
- Bucky at ANIMAL looks at the latest topical Kenneth Cole billboard
- We knew there had to be rose-colored glasses somewhere in this town
- Great slide show of Weegee photographs to accompany the NY Times review of the ICP show

Photograph of a "Visit NYC" ad in Dusseldorf, Germany from James in Germany on Flickr; these ads are part of a swap between Dusseldorf and NYC to promote tourism to each other's cities, but NYC won't have this kind of swank flat-screen advertising in our subways, no way