• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a large theft(?) at Waterview Ct. on Saten Island, a capsized boat in Central Park's lake with passengers in the water (around 74th St. and 5th Ave.), and a shooting on Brooklyn's W 31st St.
• The Red Hook Ikea is topped out and a Gowanus Lounge reader is there to capture the magic of retail superstructures.
• Eleven soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Fort Drum allegedly broke into a fellow soldier's house and beat him and his wife. The attack was allegedly in retaliation for a criminal complaint lodged earlier.
• Two FDNY EMTs were fired for videotaping patients during transport in their bus.
• Richard Gere is a literal kissing bandit. An arrest warrant was issued in India after his make-out session with a local actress.
• This is more Windy City than NYC, but film critic Roger Ebert is recovering from cancer-related surgery and seems in good spirits. We wish him well.
• On the heels of Giuliani's same-sex-marriage equivocation, Gov. Spitzer calls for NY State to legalize the banns that dare not speak their name.
• Some state assemblymen are proposing that teams that play in NJ (e.g. Jets, Giants) not be allowed to use the appellation "New York" in their team names. We know it's been a while since either team won a Super Bowl, but seriously? That's pretty harsh.
• Nineteen people were injured––one critically––this morning when a bus was hit by a car. Actually, the article says that 14 people were on the bus, 19 people were taken to the hospital, and 14 people were injured: one critically.

(At The Wired Rave Awards, by an interested bystander at flickr)