- 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.