Extra, Extra

Photograph of a tai chi club in Queens by milkshakepants on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Kent Ave & De Kalb Ave Brooklyn, and Unusual Rescue at 185 W Broadway in Manhattan, and a Scaffolding Collapse on 123rd St in Queens.
• A man went to his ex-girlfriend's workplace, fatally shot her, wounded her supervisor and then killed himself in Bohemia, Long Island.
• City Comptroller William Thompson says the city is failing to maintain its senior centers, finding obstructed exits and hazardous conditions at some.
• Rafaello Follieri, Anne Hathway's ex and a grifter being held on $21 million bail by authorities, is in talks for a plea deal, which apparently is news to his lawyer.
• NY1 Takes a look at the McCarren Park Pool mystery, they say the dead body found was reportedly that of a 50-year-old man. Watch their segment here.
• The chandeliers at the Metropolitan Opera house were packed up for their restoration in Vienna. They are supposed to be back for the Met's opening gala in September.
• A realtor has threatened a blogger via an email stating "you guys are in a hep of poop"!
• Choire Sicha strongly denies the blogger cabal conspiracy theory that a "tiny concentration of hyper-intellectuals has become a juggernaut that subtly controls everything that happens in the industry." He would say that.