- 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.