- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A car into scaffolding at 2nd Avenue & 65th Street in Manhattan, an armed robbery at 14st & 30 Rd in Queens, and a hazmat on 46 Street in Brooklyn.
- Taxi drivers are being asked to contribute their tips to a fund for 13-year-old twins, whose livery cab driver father and mother were killed by a hit-and-run driver on Staten Island.
- A Star-Ledger columnist laments that youths are no longer shoveling sidewalks and blames the emphasis on after school sports, while the NY Times' new NJ neighborhood blog has a post on young sidewalk shovelers.
- New Jets linebacker Bart Scott promises violence...on the football field.
- Hong Kong billionaires are underwriting $1.1 billion of HSBC's stock sale.
- Jon Stewart doesn't understand Twitter, at least for a Daily Show segment.
- Who cares if the timing is off for a new luxury clothing store? The staircase at Armani's new Fifth Avenue store is getting raves.
- Woody Allen's new movie, Whatever Works, will kick off next month's Tribeca Film Festival. After Allen's four movie stint abroad, this film is set in New York and features Larry David.
- Megan McCain says her dating life has sucked since the election season, though one guy told her she could be his Cindy and asked whether she wore pearls, like her mom: "Any guy that has a fetish for older women in pantsuits and large pearls obviously only finds my last name attractive about me."





At first I thought taxi drivers were being asked to contribute portions of their tips to a fund for someone killed by a livery car driver. They would go broke if they did that.
Megan McCain just needs to relax. Sooner or later, the right conflicted, boy-curious slacker will ensnare her in his self-absorbed quest for "manhood".