Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A shooting in Brooklyn, a power outage in Queens, and scaffolding that fell on the 5 tracks - subway service on the 2 and 5 is messed up!
- A Bronx man pleaded guilty to terror plotting; Tarik Shah will serve no more than 15 years for offering to teach Al Qaeda operatives "how to wage jihad with hand-to-hand combat"
- New lawsuit to stop the Atlantic Yards lawsuit, on the grounds that the Pataki administration's Environmental Impact Statement was "fatally flawed"
- A man stabbed his father while in an SUV in Midtown last night; his mother watched from the backseat
- Brooklyn Record looked at the Williamsburg jeans from the Gap, but it's questionable how Williamsburg they really are
- The Police Academy will move out of its gross East 20th Street digs to College Point, Queens, where the College Point auto pound currently resides
- The missing British teen who ran - and flew - away to NYC after an argument with his parents was found at JFK; we're intrigued how he had enough money of his own to buy a ticket (credit card, probably?)
- Gridskipper lists the top sake bars in the city; old standbys Decibel and Angel Share make it
- The pet food recall now includes dog biscuits
- And, finally, Community Board 4 approved renaming the west side of 53rd and 8th Avenue "Jerry Orbach Way"
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