
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A sexual assault at Johnson Ave & Humboldt St in Brooklyn, a suspicious package at Pennyfield Ave At Casler Pl in the Bronx and an unusual rescue at the Hodges / Marine Parkway Bridge in Queens.
- When a motorist got annoyed at the driver of a double parked car, the double parked driver cut him off at the next light, and got out of the car with a switchblade.
- Consider us spooked: The Star-Ledger says the Asian swamp eel can change its sex, remain burrowed in mud without food for weeks, and "crawl ashore and walk to a more suitable environment."
- The Department of Investigation suspended licenses of two construction workers who removed a platform's guardrail which led to a worker's fatal 40-story floor at a West 42nd Street site.
- Nassau County reveals 56 new additions to the Wall of Shame.
- Is Drew Barrymore a cougar-in-training? 'Cause Daily Intel saw her making out with Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick.
- Madame Tussaud's now has a wax statue of Giants quarterback Eli Manning.
- And what's the point of bus lanes when they are blocked?




Double Parking literally chokes the life out of this city on a daily basis. What does the NYPD do? Nothing.
"The Department of Investigation suspended licenses of two constructions workers removed a platform's guardrail which led to a worker's fatal 40-story floor at a West 42nd Street site." Huh?
It's the GIL Hodges Bridge, named after the late baseball player from Brooklyn.
God, don't close the Star-Ledger down while it blows the lid off Asian Swamp Eels.