Extra, Extra

Photo of Madison Square Park by street level on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: serious trauma on 5th Ave and 79th St in Manhattan, a shooting on Vyse Ave in the Bronx and a serious car accident near the UN.
  
• The city and the UN are butting heads over whether the UN is cutting back on security and forcing the city's rescue services to come to its aid if it were ever the target of a terrorist attack.
  
• A temporary restraining order has been issued to halt the expansion of the House of D jail in Downtown Brooklyn.
  
• Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn is not closing as had been feared, but significantly downsizing.
  
• The cash crunch at the New York Times is now being called "ghastly" after October's numbers came in.
  
• No one knows quite why AOL has shut down a Brooklyn arts newsletter.
  
• Animal has rare video of the (literally) underground artist Poster Boy in action.
  
• The parole board has stepped in and said that Lindsay's father Michael Lohan cannot participate in a charity boxing match.
  
• And did Angelina Jolie sell People the rights to the first photos of her babies in exchange for them no longer using the term that is poison to her eyes and ears--"Brangelina"? (People defends itself.)