
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: multiple manhole fires on Marcy Ave. in Brooklyn, a shooting on Gunhill Rd. in the Bronx, and a stabbing on 7th Ave. in Manhattan.
- The NYTimes examines the ground beneath our feet and finds out where the city's asphalt comes from and how it's produced.
- The lives, loves, and world of Second Lifers, where people inhabit a virtual world of their and others' making.
- Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, who also sits on the board of the city's pension fund, is warning record executives at 14 media companies to clean up the material they sell.
- State assemblyman Michael Gianaris, who represents a district in Queens, wants to ban high school students from driving during school hours after a recent accident claimed the lives of several teenagers.
- It hasn't even been completed yet, but Citi Park Stadium is already being sued by two workers who claimed they were injured while working under unsafe conditions.
- Facts about the Rockefeller Center Christmas Trees over the years.
- A woman was struck and run over by a tour bus this morning at Broome St. and Bowery in Manhattan.





great picture. like a giant new york centipede.
I enjoyed that shot as well. Seems to have been taken from the far side of the Wildlife Refuge off of Cross Bay Blvd.
No doubt. I take that train everyday from the hood.
Looks like a caterpillar crawling up a branch. Excellent pic! Love taking that train. Great view.