1. Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: pedestrian struck by vehicle on 34th Street and 11th Ave, a school hazmat condition at 103rd and CPW, and an all hands fire in Soho on Thompson Street.
2. Soho residents and shoppers want to trade parking spaces for wider sidewalks. If you've ever been on Prince Street on a Saturday, you know why.
3. Chase Bank has agreed to turn off those annoying sidewalk projection ads-- about two dozen branches had been using them. Using a projector is actually against city laws-- but punishment fines are only $50/day.
4. Nobody has bigger rocks than Brooklyn. Nobody!
5. The person who murdered four Atlantic City prostitutes last month may be a foot fetishist. At least, according to the "psychological profile" developed by the serial-killer enthusiasts at Stalk Inc.
6. Bad news for alcoholic suburbanites: the MTA is considering banning booze on the LIRR and Metro-North lines.
7. Yah! NY1 is starting an 11pm newscast!
8. Current contender for saddest holiday-season crime: a 14 year old girl in the Bronx has been arrested for murdering her newborn baby - she squeezed the baby through the window's child safety bars
9. Good news for gays and lesbians in Jersey: the State Assembly and Senate approved a civil unions bill. It goes to the governor next-- and he's expected to sign it into law.

Third Avenue, by Joe Holmes.