
Photograph by shveckle on Flickr
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A stolen tanker in the 72nd Precinct area of Brooklyn, an unconscious firefighter on Pitt Street in Manhattan, and an unusual trauma on Putnam Place in the Bronx.
- Airlines are cutting many non-stop flights because of fuel costs and the economy.
- It's a bonanza of documentaries at movie theaters (the docs need to play at least two times a day for a week in order to be eligible for Oscar consideration).
- The Observer says even the NY Times is pooling its few floor passes among its reporters at the DNC. Also: City Councilman Hiram Monserrate introduced himself as a future mayor.
- The NYPD's Skywatch Tower is now in Ridgewood, Queens.
- Despite their proximity to Nathan's, the hot dog vending machines off the Coney Island boardwalk sold out of, uh, "food" this weekend.
- And Goldman Sachs is fine with little buzz on their skyscraper construction near Ground Zero. Of course, when there has been buzz, it's been when debris fell onto a Little League playing field on one occasion and tons of falling steel paralyzed an architect on another.





Ah to sojourn relaxedly on a nice hot, syringe-strewn, overpopulated and grimey Coney Island beach.
What a treat.
Not.