Extra, Extra

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: aircraft emergency at JFK, manhole fires in Brooklyn, and a pedestrian struck at 40th and 7th.
• Squatting in Bushwick ain't all it's cracked up to be: "for a bathroom, Dan and Nate have two buckets, emptied daily — one in the common area and a somewhat more offensive one on the roof, forcing them to make haste with their business on increasingly cold winter days. The “pee bucket” froze solid the other day."
• Help me Doctor, I'm not getting fat fast enough! Solution: the McNugget Burger.
• Some assemblymen take on criminals. Others take on graffiti artists. Jose Peralta has chosen a slightly less terrifying foe: subway pigeons. And he plans to electrocute them.
• The Upper East Side antique dealer who sued a homeless man for $1m dollars has dropped the suit. Apparently the hobo has moved on to greener pastures.
• In honor of Corey Lidle, the Yanks are wearing black armbands this season.
• Maria Bartiromo, The Early Years. It's like Grease meets West Side Story.
• Finally, the East Village is getting the crushingly out-of-scale glass architecture that it's been missing all of these years.
• Thighs Wide Shut went to White Castle for Valentine's Day-- if you did too, send in your pix.

Red Alligator, by Soupflowers.