Staten Island Ferry, by General Erin at Flickr Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: missing children on 12th Ave. in Brooklyn, an overturned tractor trailer on the eastbound BQE in Queens, and an armed robbery on West 42nd St. in Manhattan. The contraband room at JFK International: it's like a freegan's vision of heaven. The clock atop the former Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower (now One Hanson Place) started ticking today at noon. A man was......

Police in Suffolk County released surveillance footage of an attempted robbery at a convenience store off the Montauk Highway in Brookhaven that showed a petite woman defending her store. Store employee Hafize Sahin, all of 4'5" and 90 pounds, swung a 3-foot-long ax at the would-be robber. The incident took place around 8PM when a mask-wearing man demanded the store's money. Sahin pretended to open the register but really took the ax from under......

Bye Bye Bolaris? It looks like WCBS meteorologist John Bolaris may really be leaving town, as Newsday reported on Tuesday that he sold his home in Wainscott, Long Island for $2.695 million. However, the Newsday piece did say that he was planning to buy a new house "south of Montauk Highway”, however it did not mention how far south, like closer to Philadelphia. Last week you may recall, we speculated when his contract is up......

Ah, the responsibilities of parenting or the joys of pot - how do you decide? Well, 41 year old Alvin Allan of Mastic, NY, chose both, as he drove on the Montauk Highway, stoned, with his 11 year-old son in the front seat next to him. The police stopped him because he was speeding. Gothamist can't help but think of the Partnership for a Drug Free America ads where the mustachioed father busts into his......