
NYC - MoMA: Design and the Elastic Mind - Rules of Six, by wallyg at flickr
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a sex assault on Lafayette Ave. in Brooklyn, a pedestrian struck at 29th St. and 11th Ave., and the Commerce Bank branch at 26th St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan was robbed.
- Nassau County pols and law enforcement are working to outlaw the "Bloomberg Collection" of pistol paint jobs that make handguns look like toys.
- Post owner Rupert Murdoch and Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman both have Newsday in their sights.
- A woman suspected of having her husband killed after he left her, so she could collect a $5 million insurance policy, is claiming she is now broke. The millions were spent on essentials like spas, plastic surgeries, assistants, and therapy.
- $46 million hurler Kei Igawa may find his paycheck stretching a little further while playing for the Yanks' Scranton-Wilkes Barre Triple A team, where he has been demoted.
- An intoxicated man attempted to avoid Suffolk County police after a high speed chase by leaping from the driver's seat of his still-moving vehicle. He left his girlfriend and two children in the car, along with a friend, who managed to climb into the driver's seat and stop the Jeep before anyone was injured.
- Katie Holmes, aka Mrs. Tom Cruise, may be on her way to a role on Broadway to star alongside John Lithgow and Diane Wiest. It will be in a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons."
- A Long Island Child whose parents donated his organs after they were told he died from bacterial meningitis actually died of a highly transmittable and deadly form of cancerous lymphoma. Two of the organ recipients have already died and two others are undergoing chemo.