Time announced its second Time 100 list of influential people. (For whatever reason, Time doesn't provide a full list with separate links to all the influentials, so here's a list from FishbowlNY.) Based on our reading, the New Yorkers (and we're including some people who live in Westchester, but work in the city) who made the list include 30 Rock's Tina Fey, subway superhero Wesley Autrey, Senator Hillary Clinton, banker Stephen Schwartzman, director Martin Scorsese,......

The NYPD released photographs of four of the five police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell last November. The NY Times says the photos were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request (the photograph of the fifth officer, the one who fired the first shot, was not released, due to his undercover status). This gave Detectives' Endowment Association president Michael J. Palladino opportunity to say, "The photos of......

New York City's Off-Track Betting, or OTB, the "largest legal gambling operation in the entire country" could be "on the verge of going broke" according to City Councilman David Weprin in the Daily News. The City run bookie, which has historically been a bad bet(Giuliani often joked about it being the only bookie in town that lost money) is looking forward to another money losing year. Over the past two years the organization has lost......

Taking "resy" to another level, the New York's Intelligencer exposes the innerworkings of the reservation system at Daniel, the East Side crown in Daniel Boulud's NY culinary empire. Apparently, there are codes next to the names in the reservation books: NBD (No Big Deal), PX (Person Extraordinaire), or PXX (Person Extra Extraordinaire). And, admittedly, for a second, we wondered why "E" wasn't used for "Extraordinaire," but then we figured it out. Hee, of course. [Via......

Classic: Teenage 4-H camp counselors supposedly forced their young charges to fight each other: "Investigators are looking into the possibility the camp counselors exploited a rivalry between the Bedford and Halifax 4-H clubs, staging the fights in one of the camp's nine lodges...counselors allegedly charged children $1 to watch the fights, and more than 50 campers attended some of the fights." Parents were suspicious when kids starting coming home with black eyes and broken hands,......