
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: building collapse with fire on Nostrand Ave. and Prospect Pl. in Brooklyn, a sex assault on Ave. P and 12th St. in Brooklyn, and downed wires 84th St. and Dry Harbor Rd. in Queens.
- Attorney General Andrew Cuomo held a secret grand jury "to consider bringing criminal charges" in the Troopergate scandal.
- Everything from flour to white paper bags is costing pizza men their white shirts.
- Mariah Carey is planning a second wedding in NYC--it will reportedly have 2,000 guests, but it's unclear if it'll have 50 flower girls, the way her 1993 wedding to Tommy Mottola did.
- Bees may disappearing or just headed to a neighborhood near you: Thousands more bees swarm, this time on the Upper West Side.
- A girl on her way to school was struck by an ambulance responding to a call at Coney Island Ave. and 19th St. She was declared dead at the scene but is now in critical condition.
- Like some college girlfriends, they react to movement and conversation, but you can't touch them; ever. Technology imitates art and life.
- Less church and state than church and taste, a CT town managed to get its Christmas decorations down by Memorial Day.
- He didn't ask to "Pass the Courvoisier": An armed robber knocked off a Jersey City liquor store last night, demanding cash and the store's stock of Hennessy.





It's heartwarming to see that liquor stores still get held up, even in these dry, boring anodyne times.
Economy is so awful, P. Diddy's guests are expected to bring their own beverage to the party?
Norwegians have a parade & it doesn't make news? Couldn't those descendants of Vikings ravish, or at least grope some local maidens? Puerto Ricans would've known what to to.
A brown bear escaped from the zoo! And a Viking has harnessed it to pull him around town. That is badass.
That dog is amazing.