Gothamist reader luzer took some arresting, very "Wild Kingdom"-like photographs of a hawk snacking on a squirrel in Central Park, near the American Museum of Natural History. luzer posted photographs on Flickr and writes that some of the humans who gathered to watch the spectacle "guessed it was Pale Male. I am not convinced (we saw another one later in the park)." While New York is very urban, there are still many places where......

The 2007 FISA Rowing Tour USA makes a stop in New York City today by rowing around the isle of Manhattan. The last leg of the week-long rowing tour is a "Row Around New York" where participants will row 30 miles around the island. The boats began at 6 am today at Pier 40 (Houston St. and the Hudson River) and should finish there at around 5 pm. Participating rowers, there are 70 of them,......

- Bloomberg is worried because the State has promised better pension plans than the City can deliver. - That's nice of him: The former nurse who admitted to killing 29 of his patients has given a kidney to the brother of a former girlfriend. - After four more cyclists are killed in the past ten days bike-owners are feeling deflated. - An off-duty corrections officer busted selling crack to to an undercover cop. Crack?......

A woman was attacked in Inwood Park as she jogged on Sunday morning. The Post reports that the attack occured "not far" from where the body of 21 year old student Sarah Fox was found in May 2004. The woman had been jogging at 8:30AM, at 217th and Seaman Avenue, when a man "grabbed her around the neck from behind and rubbed something that smelled like Vicks Vap-o-Rub into her eyes." After a struggle, the......

Yesterday, the Post revealed the top suspect in the Sarah Fox murder was actually a neighbor who had been giving the police tips. The murder of Fox, a Juilliard student whose body was found in Inwood Park last May, worried the neighborhood about park safety (Fox had been going for a run). Dimitri Sheinman had told police he had "visions" that could help the police in the murder investigation, and the details he gave were......

The NYPD will have 250 police cadets comb Inwood Park for more clues in the Sarah Fox murder case. Much has been made of the tulip tree flowers and petals found near Fox's body, with the possibility of them being placed in a ritualistic fashion, but a second botanist consulting on the investigation says they could have fallen there (the last two grafs of the Times article explain the confusion). While there is some possibility......

The medical Examiner's office confirmed that the body found in Inwood Park was Sarah Fox's, the 21 year-old drama student who had been missing since last Wednesday. The ME's office also ruled that it was a strangulation, and the police are treating it as a homicide. Police are not sure if Fox knew her attacker or not, but remarked that the body was found with leaves and branches from a tulip poplar tree, leading them......

A New York Region > Body Found in City Park Is Believed to Be Missing Student" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/nyregion/26dead.html?ex=1400904000&en=ae508d53e3ed5c73&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">naked body found in Inwood Park yesterday may be that of Juilliard student Sarah Fox, who has been missing since last Wednesday. Police believe it was murder, although they are still investigating the area where the woman's body was found; there is a possibility that the woman was sexually assaulted. The medical examiner's office is conducting an autopsy to......