Extra, Extra

punk, by Raymond Haddad at flickr

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A jumper down at Wall and Water Streets in Manhattan, a stabbing at East 141st and Willis in the Bronx and a pedestrian struck at Avenue Y and E 1st St in Brooklyn.
  
• A livery cab driver stole passengers' IDs--he took their credit card info to rack up over $2,000 in EZPass charges.
  
• The woman who was killed by her estranged husband at a Montclair, NJ YMCA had a restraining order against him.
  
• A man imprisoned since 1994 for the stabbing murder of James Abbott Jr. in Far Rockaway had his conviction overturned by a Queens judge this week. Upon hearing that he would be freed, Kareem Bellamy fell from his chair in the courtroom and just stayed on the floor.
  
• A NYC restaurant inspector was arrested after asking one establishment to give him $500 and a bottle of tequila in return for a passing inspection.
  
• The funeral of Frank Powers, philanthropist and the Staten Island GOP's choice to replace Vito Fossella, was momentarily disrupted by his son from his first marriage.
  
• Streetsblog explains how upstate Assemblyman David Gantt shot down a bill to bring cameras to NYC Transit buses.
  
• After being stabbed 22 times in his Long Island home, Thomas Garafolo died at a local hospital, but not before naming one of his attackers, who was a partner in a shop-lifting scheme.
  
• Smokey Oval park in Queens was named after beloved Yankee Phil Rizzuto.