Extra, Extra

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A pedestrian struck at 12th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan, a homicide in Brooklyn, and a water rescue in Forest Park in Queens
• Mathieu Eugene showed NY1 his new apartment and says that he was sleeping there before the election; if that's really true, why didn't he say so earlier and why won't he show NY1 the lease?
• In order to avoid any parking ticket squabbles, the city has suspended Monday alternate side of the street parking in anticipation of snow
• The suspected killer of Adrienne Shelly tried to kill himself with a staple a few weeks ago
• Maureen Dowd goes on Meet the Press to talk about the Barack-Hillary thing: Here's the transcript - she mispronounces Streep (as in Meryl) as "Strip" at first
• The NY Times Real Estate "Hunt" column looks at two friends looking for a 2-bedroom rental for around $2,000 in Manhattan; one has a really early reverse commute to Connecticut and the coffee place isn't open when she leaves
• And if it's Oscar Time, it means the Independent Spirit Awards were last night (let's hope this is the last Best Picture award Little Miss Sunshine gets) and, in another event, that Giorgio Armani takes pictures with Katie Holmes
• The Oscars also mean that we'll be liveblogging the Oscars...check us around 7:30PM tonight as we put all our useless-on-any-other-day-of-the-year knowledge to use!

Photograph of a chase at the Chambers Street subway station by smoothdude on Flickr