
Photograph of Hello Kitty in the Lever House courtyard by Marianne O'Leary
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: An armed robbery/in pursuit at 6 Ave & Caroll St in Brooklyn, a missing person at E 57th St & Sutton Pl in Manhattan, and a double shooting at 84 St in Queens.
- A baby was born on a Philippines-to-NYC flight last week. Little Jadan Brown was delivered by his emergency medical worker father and a surgeon on the flight; Jadan was also premature (weighing less than 3 pounds) and will be in the hospital for a few weeks.
- A Staten Island family was reunited with its missing dog. The pup, named Chad, is partly blind and had wandered onto the Staten Island Expressway.
- There's a rally for the Altantic Yards development and planned Nets Arena this week, leading opponents to suggest developer Forest City Ratner doesn't think it's a done deal.
- A DNA test reportedly shows chewing gum allegedly shoved down a rape victim's throat was not chewed by the suspect, a New Rochelle police officer and husband of a WNBC anchor.
- There's a special election today to temporarily fill City Councilman Dennis Gallagher's seat in Queens.
- Yonkers native and astronaut Ronald Garan Jr. is conducting a space walk right now at the International Space Station.
- And the Woodstock Museum (really the Museum at Bethel Woods) opened yesterday.




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