Photograph of Coney Island from the Wonder Wheel by staceyjoy on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A person under the train at Metropolitan @ Union Ave in Brooklyn, a stabbing on Andrews Ave in the Bronx, and a suspicious package at W 34th St & 7th Ave in Manhattan.
• Charles Grodin supports The Innocence Project and thinks you should, too.
• The Hoboken SWAT team scandal is an opportunity for Fox 5 to show lots of pictures of Hooters waitresses.
• City Councilman Eric Gioia of Queens is considered an "up-and-coming" NYC politician.
• Soil testing at "Double D Park" in Brooklyn has started--toxic materials from an old gas plant are suspected to have infiltrated the area.
• A Newsweek writer is not so hot on bloggers-turned-authors.
• ABC, CBS, and NBC are working together to put together a September 5 telethon to raise awareness and funds for cancer research.
• And firefighters put out a fire at a disused Pabst brewery in NJ.