Early Addition

Photograph of a car seen in Fort Greene by Frank Lynch on Flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: A missing child assault on 159 Street in Queens, injured MOS on Univ Ave in the Bronx, and falling debris on Grand Street in Manhattan.
First sentence of NY Post story: "An elderly ex-con slashed two brothers during a botched robbery on the Upper East Side after two good Samaritans mistook the siblings for thugs beating up on an old man."
Idea for the unemployed: Starting a hedge fund diligence consultancy.
LL Cool J shares his thoughts about State Senate minority leader Malcolm Smith's power struggle with fellow Democrats with New York magazine: "Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not."
With three dolphins dead in NJ's Navesink River, can the rest of the pod survive?
Restless gives a top five of the city's scaffolds.
Abraham Lincoln, whom a 19th century NJ politician once called "the ugliest man in the country" (NJ didn't like Lincoln's anti-slavery position), will be commemorated more fondly by NJ next year.
Mr. Big can't save this: Chris Noth's hangout, The Cutting Room, is closing.
And if you share an attic, think about getting a lock: In Pennsylvania, a man--staying with neighbors--was hiding out in a shared attic and stealing clothing, food and electronic gadgets from a family.