Extra, Extra

• John Fekner was a street artist in the 1980s-- check out this gallery of his pieces, including a few from Greenpoint, near the old gas towers. [Via Wooster]
• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a barge worker had a heart attack and had to be rescued at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, someone fell down an elevator shaft on East 11th Street, and a water main broke on Canal Street.
• Former Page Six gossipeur Jared Paul Stern will not be charged for anything by the US Attorney's office, according to Stern's attorney
• Treehuggers rejoice: the city is building its first renewable energy plant on Randalls Island-- it's slated to begin operating in 2009.
• Should a mysterious granite quilt, said to contain symbols used by people on the Underground Railroad, be included in the new Frederick Douglass memorial going up at the Northeast corner of Central Park?
• The homeless man being sued by an Upper East Side art gallery is still in the papers: the Daily News wants to reunite him with his long-lost son.
• Sounds like Rudy is really serious about this whole president thing: he's getting rid of his eponymous investment bank because it might pose a conflict of interest.
• Clinton Hill Blog has a great interview with the guys behind Hammered, perhaps the only live television show filming in the neighborhood.
• If you think it's cold today, contemplate this: 140 years ago today, the East River was frozen solid.

At my window sad and lonely, by Brainware3000.