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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a fire on 97th Avenue in Queens, a foot pursuit on East 141st Street in the Bronx and a stabbing on Columbus Avenue & West 109th Street in Manhattan.
- A spectator was injured after falling down the stairs at yesterday's Rutgers game against Syracuse. He is in critical condition.
- The city is denying liability in May's Staten Island Ferry crash, and say that if they are held liable, exposure shouldn't exceed $14.4 million under federal maritime law.
- A Brooklyn slumlord is paying off his debt to the city by leasing his property to the government.
- A Corrections Officer was busted for selling drugs and tobacco to inmates on Rikers Island, including 30 pills of the painkiller Suboxone.
- Leonard Lopate eats only the "Cristal of eggs." He tells the Times about the benefits of "pullet eggs," the first eggs a hen ever lays.
- Critics are still confused over the appointment of new Schools Chancellor Cathie Black. Author John Hartman, who has tracked Black's career, said, "I think she's a terrific advertising person and has a strong marketing background, but I don't know what that has to do with running a major school system."
- Awkward: The juggling twins in the Big Apple Circus barely talk to each other.
- Oh no! Weed crackdown at Stuyvesant High School!