Early Addition

From the Gothamist Newsmap: A manhole fired on W 76th Street in Manhattan, laser sightings seen by LaGuardia Airport air traffic controllers in Queens, and an injured officer on Locust Ave in Brooklyn.
Heroic: A man scaled his burning Brooklyn apartment building and helped save two people. Unfortunately one person died; the FDNY thinks the fire was started by an extension cord.
Totally unheroic: Police believe some teens threw fireworks at a home in Staten Island (a fire started, but luckily the 77-year-old homeowner, his wife and dogs managed to get out).
Glen Cover native Ashanti helped Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi promote Nassau County--they picked up some tourists in NYC and took them to Long Island.
A Queens grandmother pleaded guilty to being involved in an international sex trafficking ring.
The ethics investigation into how former Governor Spitzer's administration distributed travel records continues.
Down by the Hipster looks at a planned Williamsburg bar that was to have Heath Ledger as a partner.
And City Councilman Peter Vallone supports a local kids' soccer camp, but how does he feel about the graffiti-tagged area they play in?