Extra, Extra

Photograph of the Rockefeller Center ice rink by missmareck on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A suspicious DOA at Hillside Av & 175 St in Queens, a bank robbery at 70th St & Broadway in Manhattan and a water rescue near Purdy Pl & Holten Ave on Staten Island.
• The city will spend $112 million to repair elevators in public housing.
• Prosecutors say that the off-duty cop, fatally shot while trying to stop a robbery in 2005, "could have taken up to several minutes...to die"; closing arguments were made today.
• The economic downturn means Google NYC employees need to deal with cuts to the company's generous food service program.
• Former Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover girl Carol Alt cried on the stand as she described how Rangers legend Ron Greschner allegedly cheated her out of $9 million.
• Two bear cubs are now orphaned after their mother was hit by a car in NJ.
• Dumpy times for Trump: He's reducing the price on his Trump Marina Hotel in Atlantic City and his Chicago project may run into trouble with creditors.
• Joe the Plumber: Nashville recording artist?
• A micro brewery goes macro in Brooklyn: Sixpoint Craft Ales will soon increase production tenfold — to about 60,000 barrels a year — and brew the first bottled beer in Brooklyn since the 1970s.
• And this just in: Diddy will be making a surprise appearance at Busta Rhymes's show at Knitting Factory tonight.