
Photograph of crowd in Times Square preventing the fire truck from passing by PayPaul(Leader Of The WW Tribe) on Flickr
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A water rescue / dog In water near Shore Parkway and 75th St in Brooklyn (the dog was rescued!), a child struck by a vehicle at W Houston & Broadway in Manhattan, and an unusual rescue at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx.
- The NY State Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court decision regarding former NYSE chairman Dick Grasso's compensation. Back in the day, then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued Grasso over his $140 million pay package and demanded repayment; now it seems more likely Grasso will keep it.
- A tunnel for the Second Avenue Subway has been narrowed, thanks to rising costs.
- It's Gay Pride Week, and NY1 looks at Jackson Heights' gay population.
- Two National Guardsman from the NYC-area--one from Queens, one from Long Island--were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, along with two others Guardsman.
- Will next season's Top Chef's chefs be living in Williamsburg? It's unclear, but one sign will be the Saturn SUVs.
- Barack Obama, Rolling Stone cover boy, tells Jann Wenner his musical hero is Stevie Wonder.
- And the MoMA's chief curator John Elderfield, who is leaving the museum after 30-plus years, discusses his work with the Sun--he's had to field calls from people who claim paintings are hung upside down.





Um... the fire trucks are stopped up the block. You can see the door of the truck opened on the far right.
It is a cute NYC optical illusion though.