- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a missing child at 230th St in Queens, an officer struck at 6th Ave and Bleecker St in Manhattan and an electric shock at 6th Ave and 38th St, also in Manhattan.
- A former police officer was shot and critically injured during a carjacking in Springfield Gardens, Queens.
- The woman abandoned in the operating room by surgeons spoke to the Daily News, "I felt like I had been run over by a truck. I just felt completely devastated." She adds the doctors haven't even apologized.
- Enter the Rumspringa defense? An Amish teen was ticketed for having a beer in his horse-drawn buggy on a New York state road.
- Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's campaign is on a nationwide hunt for...interns. PolitickerNY says it's for an AG re-election campaign.
- A new MoMA ad of a man experiencing a transcendent moment while at the museum confirms what we've often suspected about our fellow museum patrons: they're totally depressed, too.
- Citi Field attendance is down 23.4% versus same time last year at Shea Stadium, but "On the plus side, the Mets are playing to 91.2 percent of capacity at the new stadium, compared to roughly 88 percent of capacity at Shea this time last year."
- Brooke Shields's lawyer issued a statement saying, "While at [the after-party at SubMercer,] Brooke was bumped into by Jack McCollough, and Kiefer Sutherland became concerned. Kiefer has always been a gentleman in her company.” And her friend suggests that McCollogh may have shoved Kiefer first!
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Interesting that with all the talk about empty seats at the new Yankee Stadium, their attendance hasn't decreased nearly as drastically as the Mets' has: 23.4% for the Mets and 11.9% for the Yankees.
It makes the smaller stadium look like a smart decision, yes? (Short-term, PR-wise at least)
Talk of the Yankee empty seats is spurred on by the fact they are so close to the field and the tv cameras. Debit Field has that god awful brick backstop-a poor man's Wrigley Field look, so it doesn't look as desolate. Besides, the Yankees arrogance makes them a hell of a lot easier to loathe
And, The Mets are currently in first place. Although, they are doomed to suck. Do their fans feel it's a lost cause already or is the economy that bad?