Extra, Extra
- 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
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