Photograph taken in Highbridge Park by jphillipobrien2006 on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A hazmat at 3rd Ave & E 70th St in Manhattan, a car vs. building on Jersey Street on Staten Island, and an armed robbery at 193 St & Bailey Ave in the Bronx.
• Police are looking for suspects after a lawyer was found shot in the head, dying in the parking lot of a closed restaurant in Commack, Long Island.
• The family of a man killed by an off-duty police officer in a fit of road rage is suing the city.
• Racist flyers were found at a LIRR station--the flyers ask people to join the Klan.
• Just $550 for an apartment in Williamsburg at Bedford and N. 7th! Perfect for hipsters who don't mind living in the bathroom. In the basement. With no windows. Or kitchen.
• Speaking of Williamsburg, there's a guidebook about Brooklyn that includes B-Burg, Bushwick, the Lower East Side, Chelsea and Nolita.
• The media loves a good pun involving Bachman Turner Overdrive.
• Midtown Lunch notices the Van Leeuwen Ice Cream truck in Midtown. And if you're in Gowanus, there will be one parked outside the Gothamist House @ CMJ, at Bell House.