Extra, Extra

Photograph of Bhutanese monks -- in town to celebrate a Rubin Museum exhibit -- by Diane Bondareff on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: Falling debris on Dekalb Ave in Brooklyn, a sexual assault/perp search at 113th Ave & Francis Lewis Blvd in Queens and a special delivery (woman gives birth) in front of ER entrance at West 59 Street in Manhattan.
• News of the tumbling economy didn't reach one Plaza Hotel condo owner, because he put his place on the market for $55 million.
• Not surprising, but still depressing: An AP-Yahoo poll suggests racism could cost Barack Obama votes.
• Bad welcome to NYC: Barnard freshman hit by cop car on her way to orientation... but she's suing for $10 million.
• A day after a NY Times article about Dominick Dunne disobeying his family's wishes and doctor's orders to cover the OJ Simpson trial in Las Vegas, the 82-year-old writer has been hospitalized.
• Ivy League graduates make bank as private tutors. The Sun reports one tutoring firm's "rates start at $195 for a 50-minute session."
• TV on the Radio is performing on a fire escape of the Ed Sullivan Theatre for Late Show with David Letterman (performance begins at 7:45 p.m). Flashback to 2004 with this Beastie boys Late Show performance that starts from a subway entrance and Phish's performance on the marquee.
• And a resident of the famed Dakota apartment building on the idea of a certain starlet living there, "A snowball from Hell would have a better chance of getting into The Dakota than Lindsay Lohan."