Extra, Extra

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: person struck by D train at 34th Street, serious moving vehicle accident on Canal Street, and a fatal fall victim at Bed, the club in Chelsea (the victim fell down an elevator shaft.)
• Here's an interesting map of the long closed City Hall Station.
• The nefarious Brooklyn footlicker, who targeted more than 70 women on the subway, has been sentenced to four months in prison and a $1000 fine.
• The city has stopped enforcing its weird ban on calligraphers in City Parks-- earlier the NYPD has claimed that calligraphy doesn't qualify for first-amendment protection, because it's not art.
• What kind of sick burglars break into an apartment and steal the family dog?
• Bad idea jeans, building maintenance edition.
• Apparently naming a sports arena in a predominantly black Brooklyn neighborhood after a bank with ties to slavery and apartheid wasn't the world's greatest PR move. The controversy continues at the Brooklyn Papers.
• The Australian artist Lister did a huge mural in LES yesterday-- check it out.

Flats to Let, from Matt Weber's great Flickr stream. You can see more of his work at Urban Photos.