Extra, Extra

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A power outage in Beach Channel, Queens, a jumper on the George Washington Bridge, and a pedestrian struck near Tottenville High School on Staten Island
• It's damn cold, but you should be warm(ish) at home; building owners are required to provide heat and hot water during "heat season"
• The doctor who claimed he had been attacked by a group of thugs died and the medical examiner isn't sure how he died; earlier hypotheses included a gay encounter gone wrong and, the current one, that he may have scalded himself
• The Reverend Al Sharpton visited South Carolina to see the former plantation where his ancestors are probably buried; he told the Daily News, "I'm feeling numb."
• A married hedge fund manager plotted to have his ex-mistress kidnapped and raped by putting an ad on the Internet
• A fire in Queens killed one and seriously injured another; authorities think the fire may have been started because the garage was "rigged with extension cords to power a kerosene heater"
• There's nothing like seeing a brand new Infiniti SUV on milk crates because all four tires were stolen
• East 23rd Street will get a Philippe Starck building, and not only are condos are sale, so are Starck-designed furniture and housewares!
• One Fort Greene resident really wants Zipcar and has started a petition to show that other FG folks want it as well

Photograph by ~Raymond on Flickr