Extra, Extra

- The Brooklyn community of Gerritsen is quiet to the police after hate-crime arrests
- A newspaper vendor was killed by a hit-and-run driver in the Bronx yesterday - and a pedestrian was hit by a car in Queens
- Mayor Bloomberg wants solid proof that September 11 made rescue workers ill when their relatives are applying for September 11 death benefits
- The Little League teammates of Shamar Porter, the 10 year old was who killed by a car while he rode his bike after a game, remembered Shamar in a funeral service; Critical Mass bicylclists also paid their respects
- A NJ Transit light rail train hits a NJ Transit bus - luckily none of the accidents are life threatening, but come on, they are both operated by NJ Transit!

Photograph taken during the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Race in Queens by Harris Graber on Flickr