- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A robbery in transit at E 219th st & Whiteplains Rd, a power outage in the area of W 59th St & 10th Ave in Manhattan and a pedestrian struck at Castleton Ave on Staten Island.
- A Connecticut kindergarten teacher was arrested for "allegedly forcing a 5-year-old boy to eat food the child had thrown in a garbage can."
- Department of Tailoring: Daily Intel describes the Canal Street water main break on Monday as seeing the street "split open like a pair of cheap trousers" with "brown nasty water started gushing out"—but the trousers are sewn up already!
- Three candidates—all Queens City Council members, as it happens—for City Comptroller have been spending more than they raised.
- Lefty bookstore and cafe Vox Pop responds to concerns cited by the Department of Health and plans a town hall meeting.
- The Glass House in Tribeca is not totally see-through; unclear if it will come with stones, though.
- President Obama filled out his Final Four bracket: "The president stuck primarily with No. 1 seeds. The sole exception was Memphis, seeded No. 2 behind Connecticut in the West regional."
- The third NY Times Building climber—the one who called the Daily News on his way up— pleaded guilty.
- The Toxic Avenger Musical starts previews today. It's based on the Troma Films cult classic about an aspiring earth scientist who is "tossed into a vat of radioactive goo and emerges as a seven-foot mutant freak and New Jersey’s first superhero."
- Time to feel a little bad for Octomom: The media scrum outside her house, documenting the arrival two of the octuplets, damaged her car.





Looking at that guy is making my skin crawl.
What was NJ's second "superhero"? Does GWAR count?
Gotta love Toxie.
"a power in the area of W 59th St & 10th Ave" Could the wrath of Mordor be so close upon our doorstep?
The Octomom would have to be run over by a train for me to feel sorry for her.
Yeah, damage to a person's car versus untold psychological damage to innocent children. I think I know who to feel sorry for.