Extra, Extra

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.