Untitled, by Brunocerous at flickr Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a missing child on Bivona St. in the Bronx, a scaffolding collapse at Clifton Ave. in Brooklyn, and a bomb threat at 9th Ave. and 53rd St. in Brooklyn. The Fed lowered interest rates again - Bernanke is totally freaking out! NYU reaches an accord with neighbors regarding continued expansion. We won't have to start referring to New York as NYUC. Stuyvesant High is......

Roger Clemens took to the airwaves last night defending himself on 60 Minutes. But the strongest action he took was off the air, filing a lawsuit against Brian McNamee for defamation and claiming that McNamee has “ruined Roger's reputation with a large percentage of the public." On 60 Minutes Roger appeared angry and defiant in the face of Mike Wallace’s questions. Stating that he was “pissed off” Clemens launched into a angry denial of the......

Take three weeks, hire some lawyers and private investigators and this is the best you can do? While the full details won’t be available until Sunday night on 60 Minutes, Roger Clemens has admitted to being injected by Brian McNamee, but only with Lidocaine and B-12. In other words, Clemens is using the same line of defense Barry Bonds used when he claimed it was only flaxseed oil he was taking and not steroids or......

Last night Gothamist attended the 4th annual benefit for the Academy of American Poets at Alice Tully Hall and was reminded that reciting poetry aloud is really a wonderful thing. As the kick-off to National Poetry Month in April, a panel of celebrity readers including William Wegman, Mike Wallace, Dianne Weist, Alan Alda and Meryl Streep read a few examples each from a variety of American poets. Great poets like William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Plath,......

- The city and firefighters have come to a contract agreement - and it's retroactive to 2003 - The Transport Workers Union wonders what its members think of the contract - The site of the recently demolished Lower East synagogue is on sale - Okay, let's say it again: Magnolia Bakery is so so so over - Senior newsman and meatloaf (the food) enthusiast Mike Wallace is retiring from 60 Minutes but gets the......

CBS News announced that Dan Rather will give his last evening news broadcast in March 2005. At 73, Rather has had a long and storied career, which was recently marred by the whole Bush National Guard incident. Rather is 73, which makes soon-to-step-down Tom Brokaw look like a spring chicken at 66. And if you asked Gothamist which newsman would be arrested over a meatloaf, we would have said Dan Rather, not the 86 year-old......

Well, the long nightmare is over: 60 Minutes newsman Mike Wallace got an official apology from the Taxi and Limousine Commission, a few weeks after Wallace was unceremoniously handcuffed during an altercation with TLC inspectors. The inspectors had been questioning his driver while Wallace was picking up a meatloaf dinner, and when Wallace came out, it just became another entry in the wacky world when famous people run into the government, except this time it......

- A token booth clerk punches a customer - Some Republican Convention Notes: 1, T -19 days, and choppers and limos as vehicles of terror - What's the deal with the skyways in the city? - A dog rides the subway - Mike Wallace gets arrested for meatloaf and tells his story - Two deaths by rain and electrocution from Wednesday's storm - A design team is chosen for the High Line - McGreevey resigns......

The Taxi & Limousine Commission is getting the once over from the press after people realized it's not everyday the 86 year-old cornerstone of 60 Minutes gets arrested. Mike Wallace spoke to Don Imus yesterday morning and explained what happened:I ordered a car service to pick me up to take me over to a restaurant where I was going to get some meatloaf and then go home. All of a sudden some traffic and limousine......

The police arrested 60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace last night after allegedly lunging at an officer from the Taxi and Limousine Commission. The TLC inspectors were questioning Wallace's double-parked driver outside of Luke's (Third Avenue and East 79th Street), where Wallace was picking up a takeout order of meatloaf (Gothamist loves details like that). Wallace apparently "interfered" with the inspectors, with the TLC spokesman describing the situation as such:He became overly assertive and was reported......