• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A fatal car accident in Manhattan at 55th and 12th Avenue, a water rescue on West 50th and a three-alarm fire at a Bronx post office
• Cute animal maternal instincts alerts: A Central Park turtle tried to lay her eggs at Wollman Rink and there's a cute shot of a hawk and her baby hawk at City Birder
• The Post lists NYC's most 50 powerful women: Mayor Bloomberg's squeeze Diana Taylor is #7, Ivanka Trump is #23, and the Post's Cindy Adams and Liz Smith are also on the list
• The Times looks at the struggles of the former child soldier from the Ivory Coast; for instance, after detaining him for months, immigration authorities released him on the random and unknown streets of Lower Manhattan at 10PM
• A Rap-A-Thon was held this past weekend in Harlem, and profanity was not allowed
• Queens want to attract more tourist dollars (our number one idea: Talk to the MTA about more consistent subway service)
• Chuck Hagel says he'd like Mayor Bloomberg to be his running mate on a presidential ticket
• The child stabbed with a stick by another child is still in a coma; his father says, "God is going to give him life again. That is what I need - I believe it."
• After screwing up evidence, the NYPD is finally looking for ways to better organize its evidence-tracking system by issuing RFPs to various vendors

Photograph of mama duck and her ducklings by MGChan on Flickr