Extra, Extra

+ Reporting live from Black Label's 4th Annual Bike Kill: "it was in your best interest to keep moving as a giant foam, sore-covered penis was on hand to blast clay slurry in the face of the unmindful."
+ Today in the Gothamist NewsMap: a severed finger in Queens, a boat in distress in the Hudson off 133rd Street, and a multiple homicide in East Flatbush.
+ Amazing pictures from rural turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. It's like Forgotten-NY, before it was forgotten!
+ Just in time for Halloween, a new diner has been built at the location of the Falls Bar. First day's profits go to an Imette St. Guillen charity.
+ No tattoos for new NYPD recruits: "Members of the service who are hired on or after January 1, 2007, must cover any visible tattoos by either regulation uniform, proper business attire, or a neutral-colored skin covering, such as a sport wrap or bandage."
+ Red Auerbach, who coached the Boston Celtics to 16 championships, died at 89. He grew up in Williamsburg, learned how to play basketball at PS 122 and almost coached the Knicks.

Urban Density, Pt. 03, by Braesikalla.