Photograph by djwerdna on Flickr; it was captioned, "Is it true that it'll be worse than being seasick?"

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: Injured police officers at W 21st St & 6th Ave in Manhattan, a power outage on 130 Ave in Queens, and an evidence search at Bedford and Kiswick on Staten Island.
• Port Authority will bring state of the art security to the World Trade Center site and Merrill Lynch might move headquarters there.
• A mobster's allegations against a Queens prosecutor means she must stay on leave.
• The Excellent Pork Chop House in Chinatown lives up to its name!
• A federal court agreed that Council member John Liu's remarks about DJ Star being a "lunatic" and a "sick racist pedophile" were opinion and therefore not defamation.
• Mandals: Hot or not?
• Don't read this sprawling New Yorker think piece on hangovers when you're hungover, but do read it before attending one too many beer-filled barbecues this weekend.
• As city officials declared open season yesterday, "Thor No More” and “You Suck” were just some of the chants heard as a few dozen protesters gathered on the Coney Island boardwalk.
• And we couldn't be prouder of our blog in China, Shanghaiist. After the earthquake, the team coordinated a benefit event that raised over US $32,000 (which will go far in Chinese renminbi)--all while writing about the earthquake's devastation and providing over hundred updates to English readers.