
Photograph by Pabo76 on Flickr
- 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?




That photo is insane. Really cool!
Agreed- that picture= WOW!