Extra, Extra

1. Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a hazmat condition in L.E.S., a "car vs. house" in Queens, and a suspicious package on 34th and 7th.
2. Rose Mattus, the co-creator of Haagen-Dazs, died this week at age 90: "Around 1960, while sitting on their couch in the Bronx, Mr. and Mrs. Mattus fabricated the foreign-sounding name. It was Mr. Mattus’s idea to include a map of Denmark on the carton and to put an umlaut over the first “a” in Häagen, even though no umlaut is used in Danish."
3. Not even the threat of imminent terrorist attack can blunt Copyranter's sarcasm.
4. This dog is bad-assssssssssss.
5. What kind of idiot cheats on an "open-book, take-home exam in a pass-fail course" about Journalism ethics? A Columbia Journalism School student, of course.
6. Forgotten-NY reports live from the rapidly gentrifying northern edge of 4th Avenue in Brooklyn.
7. Reminder: you're no longer allowed to throw out dead rechargeable batteries in New York City. You can recycle them by bringing them back to any electronics retailer.
8. Curbed has its monthly state-of-the-real-estate-market report. If their commenters' responses are any guide, the market is schizophrenic and increasingly mean-spirited.
9. SeriousEats, Ed Levine's food site, opens on Monday, but like every restaurant that has opened in New York in the last three years, you can get in a little early. Login at preview.seriouseats.com (login: serious, password: eater), or just click here. [Via AG]
10. Today was World AIDS Day. Forty million people are living with HIV today, and 25 million have already died. There are 40,000 new infections each year in the United States. The GMHC is offering free, rapid-HIV testing tomorrow.

Capturing Rockefeller Center, by mdpNY.