Photograph of people enjoying Bryant Park by dantekgeek on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A double shooting on East 145 Street in the Bronx, a barricaded subject on Macon St & Howard Ave in Brooklyn and an all hands fire on John Street in Manhattan.
• Governor Paterson was on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric last night.
• NJ residents are dealing with many more bedbugs these days; a Rutgers professor of entomology says, "There's a very severe outbreak in the United States."
• A multi-million dollar counterfeit ring was busted in a Queens warehouse--goods include "fake" MLB baseball caps, batteries, soap, and more.
• Eater has a depressing photo and report from the now-open R&L diner (the former Florent).
• Even though Martin Tankleff won't be retried for his parents' murders, the now-retired detective who put him away 20 years ago still thinks he's guilty.
• And the AP says Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight is earning Oscar buzz. (the last posthumously nominated actor was Massimo Troisi for Il Postino).