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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an injured firefighter at Ave Y and Knapp St. in Brooklyn, serious trauma at the Bryant Park ice rink in Manhattan, and a stabbing at 169th St. and Linden Blvd. in Queens.
- The New Yorker collects quotes from striking writers and their supporters regarding the strike beard phenomena. Conan O'Brien, on perhaps the only physical feature that will ever help him resemble a lumberjack: "I’m the only guy chopping wood outside his Manhattan co-op.”
- Former Yankee Jim Leyritz was arrested on suspicion of DUI and DUI manslaughter after a crash in Florida last night (Leyritz's 44th birthday), which killed the driver of the car he struck.
- The leadership of Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union is threatening a strike if negotiations can't be resolved that provide for wage increases that equal exceed the rise of the cost of living in an expensive city. The Local represents 26,000 janitors, doormen, and other service workers at 1,000 office buildings in Manhattan.
- A guide to street closures in Manhattan for next Monday's New Year's Eve Times Square festivities.
- Bryant Gumbel probably wishes he'd sent a pre-taped happy birthday greeting for Matt Lauer's 50th birthday, as he seemed uncomfortable receiving a man-kiss from the host of the Today Show.
- The board of the NY/NJ Port Authority will soon vote on a 33% hike on fares for PATH trains and tolls for bridges, and tunnels.
- Public advocate Betsy Gotbaum thinks city children are being forced to take too many standardized tests. Third graders have to take 12 tests during the school year, nine of them are city-mandated assessment tests.
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Serious trauma at the Bryant Park ice rink? I'm thinking that it was one of those idiots who doesn't circle the rink like everybody else, but skates at breakneck speed from the middle of the rink and then flings himself at the railing.
I know. I was there a few weeks ago and saw the moron with the Pittsburgh Steelers leather jacket.