Extra, Extra

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.