Extra, Extra
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a fatal jumper down on Amsterdam Ave in Manhattan, an NYPD MVA on Amboy Rd on Staten Island and a child struck on Ryder Ave in Brooklyn.
- A 12-year-old girl is in critical condition after being mowed down in a hit-and-run by a van in East New York last night.
- Cops nabbed a pay phone thief in Queens who had a pocket full of change adding up to $2.60 and a paper clip.
- The City Room complaint box looks at saggy pants!
- Congressman Charles Rangel doesn't like President Obama butting into New York state politics.
- Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg playing second rate NYC cops? We'd definitely Netflix it!
- And Google didn't have a typo on their homepage—today was their 11th birthday.
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