- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a jumper down at the Southbay Bridge in Brooklyn, a residential hirise fire at 100th St and Broadway in Manhattan and a foot pursuit on Richmond Terr on Staten Island.
- John Marchi, the longtime state senator who once led the Staten Island separatist movement, died at 87.
- Amtrak service between New York and New Haven has been temporarily suspended due to a power outage.
- Free Williamsburg has an account and pictures from a nasty cycling accident in Williamsburg last night.
- The lowly unemployed can stop complaining that they have "no marketable skills" once they read about video game testing gigs on Craigslist.
- Fans began lining up for tickets to go see one local baseball team that hasn't heard any complaints about its ticket prices, the Brooklyn Cyclones.
- And a local mommy blog has a stop motion animation video that rivals the stork when it comes to adorable notions of where babies come from.
the lady in the photo is the guardian angel of 39th street, everyday as i walk to my office she's there, with her coffee, bagel and rosary. one of the people that makes nyc nyc. http://designtrust.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-morning-commute-ii.html