- From the Gothamist Newsmap: serious trauma on Greene St, shots fired on St. Marks Pl and an overturned truck on Greenpoint Ave, all in Brooklyn.
- The number of city schools closed because of swine flu concerns has now risen to 17.
- The Coney Island "Festival by the Sea" this weekend turned out to be a ghost town.
- Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney says that Steve Israel dropping out as an opponent to Kirsten Gillibrand (after a call from the president encouraged him to do so) is not deterring her from running.
- Joe Biden may have leaked where the (in)famous VP secret bunker is.
- Alan Cumming was ejected from hotspot Momofuku Ssam for, as he tells it, daring to join his friends' pre-existing table.
- If you weren't sure what the occasion was for the parade you heard marching through Williamsburg Saturday night, apparently it was a rooftop party that did not feel like staying in one place. They recorded video of it of course because that's how these things work.
- Cream pies in the face aren't the only sign marking which Yankee is the hero of the moment. The team also has a WWE title belt being awarded to the team's player of the game.
- Carlos Delgado needs hip surgery that will keep him out of the Mets' lineup for the next two months.
- While being inducted into the Rhode Island Radio Hall of Fame yesterday, Don Pardo announced that he has given his final "Live from New York..." introduction.
- And the only way the new display in the window of Stella McCartney gets better is if you imagine Wallace Shawn being the voice behind this mannequin attack.
