Extra, Extra

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap-- large brush fire in Brooklyn, high angle rescue in midtown, and a perp search on Prospect Park West in Park Slope.
• The Times has a nice spotlight piece on Queens' local papers-- the big players are the Queens Courier, the Times Ledger chain, and the Queens Chronicle.
• Objective, from the Resume of Ethan Carter Rutherford III, Age 2: "To pursue a Pre-School diploma at a top-tier institution that will properly prepare me for the challenges that await in the following 12-20 years of education. Also, to learn my ABCs and count to 10."
• That'll teach those pesky environmentalists to go and sue Exxon: the oil company has shut down the system it has pumping a huge oil spill out of the ground under Greenpoint.
• Turns out that almost half of the $205m the city is giving to the Atlantic Yards project is being used to purchase land for the developers-- not for infrastructure improvement.
• In semi-related news, Slope Street Cats has been rescuing feral cats evicted by development at the AY site.

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