
Photograph of Autumn in Astoria by Harris Graber on Flickr
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: An unusual occurrence at W 112th St & Manhattan Ave in Manhattan, a sexual assault at South Rd & 154 St in Queens and a train job at Hoyt St & Schermerhorn St in Brooklyn.
- The NJ high school student who suffered a brain hemorrhage during a football game died last night after being taken off life support.
- If your newly released book "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Banker" is about the wild and crazy days of Wall Street excess, yeah, your publisher's timing is probably off.
- A NJ father pleaded guilty to "using a hidden camera to film under the skirts of little girls at the Central Park Zoo" (while there with his two daughters). He'll serve five years of probation.
- The NYC Health Department recommends that kids as old as 18 get the flu vaccine.
- Mommy bitchfight! There's debate--naturally--over parents who unschool their kids.
- What does it mean when soft-shell crabs make their way into a Midtown lunch buffet's offerings? That you're getting a good deal or the end is nigh?
- Days after Time editor Rick Stengel said he didn't want to put question marks on Time's cover, there's a question mark on Time's cover.





5 years probation for making kiddie porn? seriously?
3 bank robberies? seriously?
How sad for that kid in Montclair and his grief-stricken family.