- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A water main break at 6th And Carmine St in Manhattan, shots fired at 54th St & Beach Channel in Queens, and a police car MVA at Belt Parkway At Bay 8 St in Brooklyn.
- Fit for a king: Mayor Bloomberg's media company wants to rule the world.
- NJ Governor Jon Corzine has declared a state of emergency in the six counties battered by the Nor'easter.
- Stuyvesant Town residents rallied in favor of keeping their rent-stabilized rents going into the future.
- The Justice Department is launching a probe into why NY milk farmers are getting record low payments but consumers aren't seeing related savings.
- Old age? Bruce Springsteen greeted a Michigan crowd with "Hello, Ohio!"
- The NY Times profiles the law firm chairman who "earned millions last year arranging shotgun weddings for the busted firms of Wall Street." He drives a Subaru, likes Hitchcock movies, is generally unassuming and modest, and looks like Mr. Peepers.
- Ridiculed apocalypse movie 2012 made $65 million at the weekend box office.





Rodge Cohen, the most powerful lawyer on wall street, the chairman of one of the most prestigious firms in the country, a man with over thirty years experience at the highest level of corporate law, probably earns about $6-7 million a year ... aka less than any number of numbnut 32 year old cokehead traders at Goldman, et al.
Lesson -- major in finance, don't go to law school.
OK Who is the sculptor of the above series of sculptures? Is it Braque?
Matisse.
Brucie made no error calling out to Ohio at that gig in Michigan. Ohio's boundaries actually extend from the Hudson River to the Colorado state line.