1. Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: person down elevator shaft in Cobble Hill (!), a suspicious package at 96th and Lex, and an escaped prisoner in the Bronx.
2. Bad news if you're a junkie squatter in the greater Park Slope area: the Batcave is now closed.
3. Hank Greenberg is taking a run at the New York Times, but the Ochs-Sulzberger family seems unlikely to lose control, given that they control a restricted class of powerful voting stock.
4. Hilarious and troubling at the same time: Seinfeld Recut.
5. Time Out is running a special pizza issue this week. Di Fara in Midwood took top honors on their best-of list-- but a surprise: Sullivan Street Bakery took the bronze for their rectangular, no cheese pie.
6. Reminder: never ask Lindsay Lohan to write your obituary!
7. Anthony Bianchi, a Brooklyn-born English teacher, is running for mayor in the small city of Inuyama, Japan: "a city of 73,000 residents where cormorant fishing is a popular pastime."
8. Best Borat-themed holiday promotion: the Wellington Hotel's "Borat Slept Here - NOT" package. It's only $117.13 for a room-- and you don't have to sleep in the elevator!
9. 7 Train Extension Update: the new extension will not reach 10th Ave and 41st, and will cost at least a couple of hundred million dollars more than projected.
10. And don't forget: the The 74th Rockefeller Tree Lighting is tonight-- the ceremony starts at 7pm, but switch gets flipped at 9. If you go, send pix!

Note From Nestor, by Frankenstein.