
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on 155th Ave. and 79th St. in Queens, a bank robbery at the Chase branch on De Kalb and Bedford Ave. in Brooklyn, and a pedestrian struck at Hunts Point and Lafayette Aves. in the Bronx.
- The Guggenheim sent out a postcard inviting people to a seminar about Andy Warhol. The message on the reverse side is expletive-laced and describes Warhol and his fans in derogatory terms to say the least.
- The St. John's University student who brought a rifle to campus has been found psychiatrically unfit for trial.
- Nathan Kensinger Photography has shots of the Roosevelt Island Encampment installation.
- Lower East Side neighborhood activists are pushing for the renovation of the La Guardia Bathhouse on Madison St.
- The imminent demise of the iconic Metrocard.
- Two Yonkers men were arrested after they found a woman's wallet containing her passport and other important documents. They held it for ransom, demanding more cash and threatening to destroy everything.
- Next weekend, zombies will be doing yoga and you're invited to join them, if you have the guts.





It's about time they replace the cards with the touch passes, but they should still have them to use for non regular users (unless I missed that is what they are doing).
Fo shizzle mo dizzle.
Exelarmiums mo darmius!
Boston has the touch passes... they're fantastic. You don't even have to take them out of your wallet; you can touch the wallet right to the reader and it picks it up.