
Photograph of a 14th Street sunbather by loveitmadly on Flickr
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: An accident investigation on Ditmars Blvd and 97th St in Queens, a large crowd at Newkirk Ave & Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn
- With the death toll at 22,500 and over 40,000 missing after the Myanmar cyclone, Burmese natives in NYC are struggling to reach their loved ones.
- For the love of Italian pastries: East Village institution Veniero's was shut down by the Department of Health--apparently a pest problem was uncovered during a "capital improvement" project.
- Police are looking for 18-year-old Andrew Campos, who is suspected of fatally stabbing a police officer's son in a Brooklyn apartment building last week.
- John Jay Iselin, who led WNET/Thirteen when it created Great Performances, Live From Lincoln Center, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, Bill Moyers Journal and Nature, has died at 74. One of the Great Performances' co-productions: The Brideshead Revisited adaptation starring Jeremy Irons.
- A woman gave birth at the Port Authority; the woman, who was on her way to Oklahoma City from Massachusetts with her three other kids, was being loaded into an ambulance as she gave birth at the South Gate.
- Andy Warhol's portrait of Chairman Mao is being shipped to Hong Kong, where it may fetch $120 million at auction.
- And an 18-year-old NYU freshman was voted to the Holmdel, NJ school board. Holmdel superintendent Barbara Duncan said, "He probably will have a perspective that we may not have, and this will serve us."