- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a DOA floater at 90th St on the East River, a shooting at Throop Ave and Kosciusko St in Brooklyn and a bank robbery on Madison Ave in Manhattan.
- Lee Woods, convicted to killing police office Russel Timoshenko in 2007, was sentenced to life without parole.
- Solved: NJ police found an 8-week old Chihuahua puppy stolen from an adoption event. The woman who stole the dog had been turned down by the rescue agency; she and her boyfriend were arrested.
- 500 classic Bishop Crook lampposts are being installed in Victorian Flatbush and Midwood neighborhoods.
- Three Manhattan post office locations may close this year as their leases expire—the Columbus Circle branch on West 60th, the Prince Street branch on Greene Street and one on West 180th.
- In other postal news, The Simpsons are getting their own commemorative stamps.
- Bright Lights, Big City appears to be getting the big screen treatment (again), this time by Gossip Girl's Josh Schwartz.
- And grandma's running out of stories: after 72 years, CBS is canceling the soap Guiding Light.
