• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an attempted robbery of the Chase bank branch on East 56th St. and 3rd Ave. in Manhattan, a construction accident on Hoyt Ave. in Queens, and a missing child on Olinville Ave. and Rosewood St. in the Bronx.
• NYC's very own Tin Man.
• Curbed looks at truth and promises regarding the High Line Park in Chelsea.
• Street artist Shepard Fairey is going blind due to a rapidly accelerating diabetic condition.
• Showing equal-rights variation on the concept of up-skirt videos, someone is filming mens' pants-level bulges and posting them on the Internet.
• A sick freak from NJ would adopt cats, deliberately injure them, and then kill them via drowning.
• NPR wants people to vote for their favorite subway buskers.
• Today was the annual olympiad of sewage crew workers held by the DEP.

Image of fire in Williamsburg from photo sent by Amy Letterman