Beautiful Sunset, by Harris Graber
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: car into house on Staten Island, barricaded EDP in Stuyvesant Town, jumper down on the Harlem River Drive.
- Lawyers involved with 9/11 lawsuits for first responders could soak up more than 50% of the money available to pay for the workers' injuries.
- The city's plans to buy and resell 115 foreclosed homes has failed: only 8 homes have been bought. Apparently the banks want too much money.
- Here's a racial breakdown of the kids admitted to New York's specialized schools. Stuyvesant's class is 63% Asian and 16% white.
- Five people were killed and 12 were injured in an explosion at a power plant in Connecticut. Apparently workers were "purging a natural gas pipeline" when something went wrong.