Extra, Extra

Battery Park Sunset, by ryan muir at flickr

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a carjacking on 179th St. and Ft. Washington Ave. in Manhattan, a working fire at a JFK Airport control tower, and a water main break on 116th St in Queens.
  
• A manhunt is being conducted for a Serbian national accused of attacking a fellow Binghamton student. It's suspected Miladin Kovacevic escaped the country with an emergency passport from Serbian officials.
  
• After hitting a historic low last year, NYC's murder rate is up 8% in 2008.
  
• There are more unhealthy food outlets than healthy ones in the Bronx, according to the Department of Health.
  
• Gandhi's a pimp profiteer? The people protesting in front of his home think so, as they don't want a local hotelier to open what they think will become a drug haven and go-to spot for hookers and johns.
  
• Landing a good media job in NYC is more fiction than fact, according to Gawker and related articles. Insurmountable obstacles are painfully iterated.
  
• A surgeon has been suspended after removing the wrong lung from a patient and trying to cover it up.
  
• Kirsten Dunst and Ryan Gosling (and their movie) totally ruined some Midtown folks' lunch plans.
  
• Flockr? Someone's invented a robotic duck who will detect photo-worthy events and take its own pics that can be uploaded manually or via WiFi.