Photo of one of the many windshield cleanings on Prospect Avenue in Park Slope by Aonghais MacInnes on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: a push in robbery at the Pitken Ave & Grant Ave Station in Brooklyn, an unusual MVA on Chambers St and West St in Manhattan and a shooting on Humboldt St in Brooklyn.
  
• An off-duty cop just "fooling around with his gun" accidentally shot his wife in the groin in their New Rochelle home. He's been suspended without pay.
  
• Speaker Christine Quinn led the announcement that the city is not going through with initial plans to save money by consolidating more than 300 senior centers.
  
• No more Maureen Dowd columns for the Chinese, at least not online: The Chinese government has blocked access to the NYTimes.com website. It's unclear if the International Herald Tribune's website.
  
• It's starting to look more and more like another famous New Yorker might also be joining the US senate by way of Minnesota.
  
• The Yankees are waiting patiently for the free agent market to land its next major move so they can begin making a play at bringing Manny Ramirez to the Bronx.
  
• Mono, Epstien-Barr, mercury poisioning: just how many excuses did Jeremy Piven use to get out of David Mamet's play?
  
• Jerry Seinfeld was on Letterman last night trying out some new stand-up and wondering what is the deal with kids' birthday parties?
  
• And it's almost shocking that Volkswagen didn't put the Montauk Monster on jet skis and send it into shark-infested water in the latest "sighting" of the summer pheonomeon.