We think NYC area hospitals should be on alert: TMZ reports that Britney Spears is headed to NYC. Well, if not NYC, something close:"Spears left Van Nuys Airport at 4:00 PM PT this afternoon. We're told Brit Brit, Adnan and one other male passenger were on the plane. The plane is about to land at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Next stop ... unknown."Coupled with earlier TMZ reports about Spears apparently needing treatment for "severe......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a stabbing at Utica and Atlantic Aves. in Brooklyn, an overturned auto with passenger ejection on the LIE in Queens, and a report of a suspicious device on 43rd St. and Lexington Ave. in Manhattan. NJ police located the driver of the red pickup truck that initiated the chain reaction car crash that's left the state's Governor John Corzine seriously injured. The 20-year-old driver will not be ticketed. Hoping......

The National Transportation Safety Board released information about the October plane crash into an Upper East Side Building. It turns out that before the crash, the Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, had only spent four hours flying his new plane, a Cirrus SR20. He had only 12.5 hours of actual flight time in that model, and a total of 88 hours flying time (48 hours as a "pilot in command"). Lidle's flight instructor Tyler Stanger......

Wednesday night, recently installed barriers helped avert a disaster at Teterboro Airport. WABC 7 Eyewitness News reports that a ten ton jet missed a turn while taxiing after landing and "was headed toward the airport fence and busy Route 46." Luckily, it hit an "arrestor bed," which is a "system of collapsible concrete barriers that can stop a plane" yet not damage it. Brilliant! But what's extra lucky: The arrestors were only installed a few......

Investigators have spent the hours after a plane, carrying Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor Tyler Stanger, crashed into an Upper East Side building gathering evidence from the street. Federal transportation investigators believe that the single engine Cirrus SR 20 was trying to make a U-turn when it turned left over the East River, based on something either Lidle or Stanger told an official at Teterboro Airport. According to radar, the plane......

A private jet has crashed into a building after taking off from Teterboro Airport in NJ, causing a three-alarm fire. Teterboro Airport, at just 12 miles away from Midtown Manhattan, is operated by the Port Authority of NY and NJ. It's one of the busiest small airports, catering to corporate executives from the NY and NJ area whose jets cannot be flown from JFK, Laguardia and Newark. Authorities are investigating the accident; details are scant......