• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A home invasion robbery in Queens, an attempted abduction on 4th Avenue & 17th Street in Brooklyn, and a possible electrical shock at Broad and Bridge Streets in Manhattan
• Trees rejoice: Phone books are getting thinner because so many people have cell phones nowadays - with 1,796 pages, the 2007 Verizon white pages for Manhattan are the smallest EVER.
• A-Rod lashes out at paparazzi following him in Chicago
• Those free Shakespeare in the Park tickets mean waiting in line at dawn...
• ...and getting first dibs on Sarah Jessica Parker's "affordable" (read: cheap) clothing line means waiting since 11PM last night, when they could have been watching Sex and the City re-runs
• If someone in Vermont can be arrested for making faces at a police dog, we're sure it'll happen in NYC at some point
• Architecture styles of Dallas and Hong Kong on the Upper West Side? Ugh.
• The Politicker asks City Council member Tom White how he would have voted on the Sonny Carson street naming, had he not conveniently had a doctor's appointment on the day of the vote.

Photograph of fishing off Coney Island by brainware3000 on Flickr