Photograph by bifteck on Flickr; we suppose you pay with a $5 bill so you get...CHANGE

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A scaffold incident at W 110th & Manhattan Ave in Manhattan, fatal pedestrian struck along Marcy Ave in Brooklyn, and shots fired on 90th St near Roosevelt Ave in Queens.
• Home invaders got a surprise when the Nassau County home owner fired upon them with an AK-47 ("Romanian SAR-1 rifle"). The robbers ran off, apparently uninjured.
• Senator Charles Schumer warns that the drop in interest rates means mortgage scammers will preying upon the unsuspecting yet again.
• Five survivors of the Pearl Harbor attacks observed the 67th anniversary at the Intrepid yesterday. One, who was 19 at the time, said, "I think it's wonderful to honor those who paid the supreme price at Pearl Harbor and not forget the lives that were lost."
• Is the Union Square location of Shoe Mania shutting down due to fire violations?
• The federal monitoring of the NJ State Police, which had been accused of racial profiling, is almost done.
• The Long Island man accused of stabbing his estranged wife, who had a restraining order against him, pleaded not guilty.
• So weird: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who used to be married to Kerry Kennedy, is dating "Semi-Homemade" guru Sandra Lee.
• New Moon OMG: Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke isn't directing the sequel to the teen vampire flick, maybe because the studio thinks she's a pain in the butt.
• And this is some brave family (in foreign country, we're guessing) that is raising a wild jungle cat in their home--even giving it chickens and fish to kill!