
-- Queens Democratic bigwig Thomas Manton died over the weekend; Bloomberg called him a ""classy guy".
-- Our Town has a good backgrounder piece about Gothamist, complete with quotes from Craig Newmark and Adam Kuban.
-- South Bronx residents miss their vacant lots; but it may take awhile to fill all 1300 of them.
-- Speaking of total destruction, Gowanus Lounge went up to Astoria and took some pix.
-- Did you know Fabio loves to fish?
-- Check out this great Forgotten-NY piece on neon lights.
-- Oh no! Tina Fey is leaving SNL, and we still don't know how she got that scar.
-- The Daffodil Project is planting 500,000 plants this Fall-- reserve yours tomorrow in Bryant Park!
-- GammaBlog has a cool Flash movie showing the Swoon wall on Rivington changing over the last three years.
-- Gawker has Jared Paul Stern's book proposal. Better get those presses running quick, boys-- his 15 minutes are running out fast!
Manhattan Aerial from Kenyee on Flickr.