- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A child struck at W2nd St in Brooklyn, a burn victim on Winfield St in Staten Island and a scaffolding collapse at Jerome Ave and Mosholu Parkway in the Bronx.
- The New York Philharmonic, which visited North Korea last year, may be visiting Cuba.
- A scorned Dean Skelos hopes for continued reform in the State Senate.
- The Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation is seeking to make Hudson Street between Perry and W. 11th "Jane Jacobs Way" in honor of the urban writer and activist.
- If you're signing for a FedEx package containing 20 pounds of marijuana, the cops will arrest you.
- Activists are upset that "rainforest-harvested ipe wood" is being used for the sleek benches at the High Line.
- A nurse claims that Anthony and Charlene Marshall eavesdropped on Brooke Astor's sessions with her lawyer.
- Five hikers were rescued from NJ "bear country." The AP said they were in an area with a "desolate two-lane road where cell phone signals can be weak and black bears are known to roam."
- Classic Post headline: TAIL TO THE CHIEF, to accompany photo of President Obama apparently looking at a young lady's rear. However, a video seems to suggest Obama was looking elsewhere—though French President Sarkozy still seems...French.
- Is Bouley Upstairs really serving "Cotes de Thong"?
- A doctor who treated Michael Jackson claims the King of Pop self-injected Demerol. Oh, and Joe Jackson thinks his son was murdered.





Meanwhile, the elder Jackson . . . told ABC that he and his wife, Katherine, should have custody of the superstar's three children.
"There's no one else to do what we can do for them," he said. "We should keep them all together and then make them happy, feed 'em like they're supposed to be fed, and let them get rest, plenty of sleep and grow up to be strong Jacksons."
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Jackson said he hoped Paris might have a future in the entertainment business along with the youngest son, Prince Michael II, 7, nicknamed Blanket, who "can really dance."
What a piece of garbage he is. Children are nothing more than a meal-ticket to this a**hole.