
- 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"





Some people in this world have jobs and save money, despite not having gone to Ivy League schools and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
When I was 17, I earned $25/hour, which is less than what I make now, some 20 years later.
I'm also intrigued of how he got a ticket to the U.S. I'd wish stories like these give more details.
what about customs? where did he get the money?
Must of cost him a pretty pound.
The short version, He's rich and spoiled.
I'd bet he'd taken the concorde if it was still in service.
oh, the cadets are moving? so sad. i used to live near there. it was so adorable watching them all, in big groups and carrying their heavy bags, stand at a 'don't walk' crosswalk when no cars were coming. awww. no one will see this in Queens!
Scaffolding feels up the 5 tracks?
Billyburg hipsters have ruin everything yet again! Can these hipster scum just go away!?
Hipsters are working for The GAP?
I had no clue that was Clair Danes in that commercial. What an annoying ad.