- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A homicide at East 165 Street in the Bronx, a perp search at 31 Street & 30 Ave in Queens and a water job at 8th St & Coney Island in Brooklyn.
- One person died and three were injured in a Kew Gardens, Queens fire this morning.
- NY Times reporter David Rohde began to detail his captivity under the Taliban in part one of a five-part series.
- Bizarre: Firefighters returned to the firehouse after responding to a false alarm...and found a "well-dressed" man making himself at home.
- A woman, whose daughter was found stabbed to death in her Long Island apartment, wrote on her daughter's MySpace page, "Be assured, I will not rest until this cowardly beast is caught. May he rot in hell!"
- The NY Times finds out what Tamara Tunie—aka ME Warner on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit—does on Sundays. Yes, she does catch up on watching her own show, "I’d been on the show several years before I knew I had a husband."
- And an all-male college in Georgia is cracking down on crossdressing by banning women's clothes.





WQXR. the city's only classical music radio station, was off the air this morning.
Is WNYC, which recently took over, playing hardball with listeners who have fled its insistent clatter-for-cash programming for the calm sanctuary of WQXR?
Refugees From Fund Raising want to know whether the Greene Street Zealots have deliberately cut off the music option.
Longtime WNYC subscriber-members (like me) resent this underhanded effort to imprison them in an echo chamber of appeals