Extra, Extra

-- Award for best opening sentence of the day goes to the Post: "In hundreds of city public-school lunchrooms, the three R's stand for roaches, rodents and rotten food."
-- The city is spending $15m to spruce up Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn-- complete with a puzzlingly modern sculpture!
-- Further up Flatbush, some good news: The Loew's King Theater is not going to be demolished after all.
-- DumboNYC visits the Walentas Carousel, which someday may live in Brooklyn Bridge Park. It's on display (no rides!) at 65 Water Street.
-- Twenty-five productions filmed in Chinatown during the last twelve months-- and shopowners are sick of them.
-- Does anyone else find these pillows to be unnervingly weird?
-- The joke was on them: ImprovEverywhere sat through 12 hours of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" during their latest prank.

Wykoff Street Houses in Gowanus, by Vinnie716.