Toward 2, by kerfuffle & zeitgeist at flickrToday on the Gothamist Newsmap: shots fired on East 51st St. and Clarkson Ave. in Brooklyn, shots fired at Flatbush Ave. and Ave. I in Brooklyn, and more shots fired at the Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Brooklyn. Philanthropist and Chairman of the Modell Sporting Goods Company, William D. Modell, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. Walk with love: Thundercut wishes a belated Valentine's Day......

The 9 year-old boy who perished in a house fire on Staten Island late Sunday apparently died while trying to save his pets. Tommy Monahan apparently had been with his mother as they tried to escape the fire, but he raced back to his room for his dog, lizard and fish. A 12-year-old neighbor told the Daily News, "Everybody thought he was outside but he wasn't. Monahan's father had tried to rescue him from outside......

THEATER: It’s Friday night, and what better way to cut loose than an evening of interactive theater – set in plague-ravaged New York City! In All Fall Down, a savage battle rages for the dwindling supplies of the vaccine, but soon a question arises: "Is the cure worse than the disease?" Theatre Recrudescence vows to explore our “post 9/11 hysteria with elements of carnival, clowning and rock and roll.” (All Fall Down is in previews,......

The feds won't institute guidelines for September 11-related autopsies The children saved by their mom from a Brooklyn house fire are doing well; the mom, though, has undergone surgery for second and third degree burns The upstate mom who went clubbing with her daughter and daughter's friend and then drove drunk, killing the friend and seriously injuring another driver, was indicted for murder Mayor Bloomberg kinds hates Manhattan Beep Scott Stringer $20 City Councilman......

THEATER: The MoMA Dada exhibition ends Monday, and if you haven't gone yet here's even greater incentive to beat the deadline. Kate Valk, Scott Shepherd and Ari Fliakos of the Wooster Group are performing just three times at the museum in Who's Your DADA?!. This trio last mesmerized audiences in Emperor Jones and we're very curious to see what they do with original Dada materials. (The MoMA website tantalizingly mentions the appearance of "special guests".......

- It's official: Eliot Spitzer is the Democratic candidate for NY Governor this fall - Ironic Sans looks at The Critic's animated Manhattan - The transit worker caught sleeping on the job by cameraphone was fired! - Bees attack Park Slope restaurant; no word on whether Winnie the Pooh's hunny pot or Max Fischer was found on the scene - A teenager managed to save her siblings from a Brooklyn house fire but not......

Even though the Fire Department had been under scrutiny over the kind of ropes firefighters were supplied after the two on-the-job deaths and other injuries during a 2005 call in the Bronx (like the fact that the FDNY didn't supply escape ropes, leaving fire hydrants frozen and unusable or enough training), it seems that the Bronx DA feels that the people whose apartments were on fire are at fault. The tenants who lived at 236......

The story about the Queens fire just gets sadder: Along with an elderly neighbor, three of Jennifer Gaston's children died in a dramatic Queens house fire. And Gaston's 8 year old son admitted starting the fire with a butane lighter. The Admistration for Children's Services asked Gaston to leave her two other children in temporary custody, but Gaston became hysterical. The ACS had received earlier, though unfounded, reports about Gaston, and neighbors are saying that......