- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: shots fired on Jamaica Ave. in Queens, another shooting on East 126th St. in Manhattan, and yet another shooting at Snyder and Rogers Aves. in Brooklyn.
- Some Lower East Side residents want the currently vacant portion of the Essex St. Market used as a site for cheaper housing, not additional restaurants for wealthier newcomers.
- A beautiful panorama shot from the Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center.
- The Daily News talks to Bobby Vigil, the first time visitor to NYC from Colorado who helped a flight crew restrain an airline passenger who wanted to get off a plane immediately, when it was still in the air over New York.
- In a settlement with New York's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the Fraternal Order of Police will disburse $9 million to the families of 72 cops killed in the 9/11/01 attacks.
- The Post reports that even as the number of cyclists in the city grows, the number of summonses issued for violations like riding without a helmet, riding on the sidewalk, or not having required reflectors declined 19%, to 21, 719 for the year ended June 30th.
- New Yorkers look out for each other at a West Village jazz club.
- When a woman leaned out her window yesterday and yelled "Help! Fire! The people next door are trapped!", 20-year-old William Kindred and an unidentified friend ran into a burning building on West 148th St. and kicked down the door to the super's apartment, rescuing the super, his daughter, and a third person.
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