• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: hazmat condition on Wall Street and water main breaks in Soho and Tribeca.
• Just great: WNBC's Jonathan Dienst reports, "The FBI said it believes a violent fugitive who kidnapped his girlfriend and threatened to use his military explosives training to blow her up in a building may be now hiding out in Queens."
• Love it or hate it, the new New School building on the corner of 14th and 5th is going to be hard to ignore.
• Here's a beautiful collection of doors from Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy.
• Poor Julian Beever- first he gets panned by Wooster Collective, and then his Union Square piece gets totally erased by the weather.
• BED has been put to bed-- the Chelsea club is closing after hosting an elevator-related murder this past weekend.
• Most colorful traffic calming device, ever! Red Hook would probably be a lot safer if more of these were installed.
• We've linked to this before, but it's Friday, so what the hell-- here's a short video of a panda cub sneezing.
• Only at the Department of Education could a $7.6m no-bid contract for tutoring turn into a $63m boondoggle-- all without anyone noticing. Your tax dollars at work!
• Oh sweet galloping baby Jesus, our eyes!
• And some news from Downtown Brooklyn: apparently Wal-Mart has been permanently blocked from developing a new store on the Albee Square Mall site.

Follow the Bouncing Ball 1987, by Urban Photos.