
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a homicide on Boyland St. in Brooklyn, a person under a train at 116th St. and Douglass Blvd. in Manhattan, and a body found on West 91st St. in Manhattan.
- Martha Stewart is still mad over the public spat she had with Donald Trump in 2005 over her The Apprentice spin-off series. We bet she prepares a wonderful cold revenge dish.
- Police are searching for a man who attacked a 17-year-old woman in Jamaica, Queens, forcing her at knife point to a secluded area where he sexually assaulted her. The attacker may be the same man responsible for four other similar assaults recently.
- The Gowanus Lounge notes an outbreak of credit card fraud in Park Slope.
- Subway Blogger can't wait to see what effect the year's first major snowstorm forecast for tonight will have on transit service.
- With nearly 8% of firefighters calling in sick for their shifts on any given day, FDNY brass suspect sick-day abuse and are threatening to cut crew sizes.
- A grand jury indicted a man with dual U.S. and Portuguese citizenship in absentia for making bomb threats against four New York banks.
- Fireworks are planned for this evening at 7:30 p.m., as the Queen Victoria, Queen Mary 2, and Queen Elizabeth 2 all rendezvous in New York Harbor.




Ooohhh!! The first snowstorm! how scary! I won't be able to go to work today!
Oops, just looked outside the window... damn!