Photograph of 49th Ave in Long Island City by Genial23 on Flickr
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: an overturned vessel at Sandy Hook Pilot Station on Staten Island, a missing child on Glenwood Rd in Brooklyn, and a shooting at Dekalb Ave in Brooklyn.
- A 20-year-old Golden Gloves champ was shot dead in the Bronx after an altercation at a bodega.
- The Coast Guard calls off the search for a Bronx girl lost in the Niagara River.
- Brooklyn wants its fair share when it comes to easy access to nearby Governor's Island.
- Curmudgeons in Prospect Park are nothing new: complaint letters to the editor about the park from the nineteenth century.
- Not everyone is excited about the new Heath Ledger-owned bar coming to the hip epicenter of Brooklyn.
- A pigeon found in Queens playground was unable to fly because it had been painted purple.





Heath Ledger is dead. He won't be opening any bars here in NYC or Brooklyn. Little newsflash there
Nice picture of Hunters Point Avenue by the 7 train. Durning the rush hour this place is really busy and doing the weekends it sometimes look like a ghost town there.