The Union Square Holiday Market by scroogemcdan on flickr
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a school stabbing on Graham Ave in Brooklyn, a pedestrian struck on 42nd and 8th in Manhattan and a hazmat on Chambers St in Manhattan.
- The Times looks at the blue wall of silence when cops show their support with a presence outside court rooms that sometimes proves intense.
- Remember that precious story about the Upper West Side 12-year-old who went to a restaurant by himself, wrote about it in his diary, then mysteriously got a profile in the NY Times? It'll be a movie.
- At a Democratic Conference, Assembly Leader Sheldon Silver pulled a move that whiffs of sitcom kid who gets teased at school for being a nerd. "Oh you think I'm a nerd? Well how many nerds are friends with Tina Fey here, huh?"
- Add another $30k onto the RNC's fashion receipt for former VP nominee Sarah Palin.
- New York Post guerrilla journalist Justin "Rocket" Silverman got lots of laughs when he went to the ESPN Zone in a Giants jersey with Plaxico Burress's hospital alias on it. But it didn't really fly in the hospital that's now in hot water because of the incident.
- Brooklyn band The Vivian Girls hate your co-workers, especially the ones you go to T.G.I. Friday's with, and pretty much everything and everyone else that isn't in the bathtub with them.
- The awards season has begun: the National Board of Review named Slumdog Millionaire their movie of the year.
- And a 13-year-old in Florida was arrested for disrupting class after possibly overloading on the musical fruit.





More on the school stabbing?
Thanks for picking up the pic!
Read the phony jersey story. I know the Post readership aren't scholars, but the quality of the writing is a joke. That read like my 12-year old son wrote it for a school assignment he hated. Do they pay for writing like that?
@ #3, you need a clever nickname like Justin "Douchenozzle" Silverman to get a gig at a prestigious newspaper like the post. It isn't just your writing skills.
I thought that did make the whole thing even more tragic. It's as if he's self-aware enough to know he's a never-was, so he puffs it up a bit by providing himself with a nickname. What, Justin, did you play D-1 and your teammates gave you the name "Rocket?" I think not. Maybe you played JV for Polk High and your mom thought it was a cute name.