Extra, Extra

• Sad and insane day on the Gothamist Newsmap: "Baby found DOA in Garbage" in the Bronx, a bank robbery in Cobble Hill, and an unusual incident on Riverside Drive: "2 PEOPLE FIGHTING AND DOUSING EACH OTHER WITH GASOLINE AND ATTEMPTING TO IGNITE IT."
• Here's an unusual method of pedagogy: New York blogs as assigned reading.
• Tales of skullduggery at the Idiotarod: "The blonde girl on that team, Rebecca, tried as hard as she could to shove me into McGuinness Boulevard -- right in front of traffic on the busiest street we ran down. I have never, in four years of this race, seen anyone act as nasty and vicious as she did. "
• Double serving of graffiti links: Momo has a cool poster for sale, and Faile has taken revenge against the Splasher.
• With the property values in Western Queens going as high as they are, maybe windpower on the Queensboro Bridge isn't such a crazy idea.
• And definitely not as crazy as paying $3600 to live on top of the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn.
• There are still no arrests or leads in the murder of Priscilla "Peaches" Pimentel and her dog-- both were stabbed to death in Pimentel's Queens apartment over Thanksgiving.
• Red Hook: Not Just for Crackheads Anymore!
• 24/7 webcam of the Empire State Building? Count us in! 90 second video of Fabio autographing a man's ass in Times Square? Count us out!

Kuma Flowers, by Will at Untitled Name