-- The Friends of the High Line gave cameras to kids and sent them out to photograph Chelsea-- the shots are surprisingly good.
-- People think that 311 can tell them if Ray Charles was Stevie Wonder's uncle
-- The NY Times story about police-civilian mediation was fascinating (though many people say it's not that great for either side), but it was especially good after reading the story about former deputy commissioner Garry McCarthy's freakout with NJ parkway police over a ticket the NJ police had issued to McCarthy's daughter for parking in a handicapped space
-- Streetsblog wonders why Park Slope's 5th Avenue still hasn't received its promised bike lane improvements, despite multiple injuries and deaths.
-- Hilarious story about lugging a 20lb laptop around town. Don't miss the shot of the kid rocking it on the subway.
-- Morbid but necessary: "Federal health officials have drawn up an ambitious national plan for autopsies and tissue sampling of 9/11 workers who die years later, in order to determine if they were slowly killed by the toxic soup of World Trade Center dust."
-- Columbia is replacing loans with grants for families making less than $50,000 per year. It will continue, of course, to cripple middle-class families with crushing debt.
-- Terrible story about a Brooklyn robbery: "'Oh, they shot me, they shot me' she said, and then he went silent."
-- And as if this post wasn't already depressing enough, here's a story about an injured, lost cat. Screw Wednesdays.

Sky Mirror Panorama from our visit yesterday.