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Major Klatt took Vincent Laforet, a photographer for The New York Times, up in an Extra-300L aerobatic plane on Thursday.

Today's Times takes a long look at possible futures for the city's next big thing: Governors Island. The 172-acre island just off the southern tip o' Manhattan, Dan Doctoroff's newest playground, is ready for some serious redevelopment the money for which is finally starting to come in.

Now that the election is over we can get down the the business of the "Next Big Building Thing." Luckily, we already know what it is going to be: Governors Island. The News has written about it. So has the Post. So it comes as no surprise that today the Times would have a nice piece on the Island. What is surprising though is just how sweet that piece is. Where the tabloids focused on the upcoming developer wars that Dan Doctroff is going to orchestrate, the Grey Lady looks at the quiet and calm life of the 13 FDNY firefighters who are stationed on the island.

Two years ago today the lights went out all over New York and what really impressed Gothamist was that, in one of those great moments of urban solidarity, nothing bad really happened (unlike, say, the blackout of '77). What's important to remember though, besides how well everyone did last time, is how easily another blackout could happen today. Especially after yesterday's record breaking heat, 99° in Central Park!

Every Yankee starter contributed a hit or an RBI in the victory and Tanyon Sturtze added two innings of spotless relief while the outcome was still in question. Tom Gordon pitched into and out of trouble in the ninth to close the door on the Red Sox. The Yankees took the lead in the third inning when Gary Sheffield and Hideki Matsui drove in runs and David Wells balked in one. Matsui added a two-run homer in the eighth to pad the Yankee lead.

The US women - Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, Dana Vollmer and Kaitlin Sandeno - finished in 7:53.42, more than two seconds ahead of the old record and defeated China by more than two and half seconds. Germany won the bronze medal.

After the event, Hamm said, "I was really depressed because I thought I ruined everything with the vault. I was thinking, maybe I could win a bronze, but only maybe." The chips fell the right way and Hamm had two great performances to move into first. Kim Dae Eun and Yang Tae Young, both of South Korea came in second and third respectively.

Think the competition in the Olympics isn’t tough? Just ask Michael Phelps. Phelps swam the 200-meter freestyle yesterday, setting a new personal and American record and still finished third to winner Ian Thorpe (who set a new Olympic record with his 1:44.71 time) and runner up Pieter van den Hoogenband. Amazingly, Phelps third place finish would have been good enough to win the Gold in this event in any previous Olympics. Van den Hoogenband was the defending champion in this event and yesterday’s results could possibly set up the rubber match in Beijing in 2008.

Last night, the Nets took their hard earned victory on Friday night and fouled it all up by losing to the Pistons, 81-75 (box score). Now, they return to the place of their worst playoff performance, a place they needed three overtimes to win, and to face a team that has momentum. The Nets started the game with a 13-2 run, but the quick lead vanished by the end of the half when the Pistons led, 50-36. In the second half, the Nets fought back coming as close as two points with under two minutes left in the game, but they could not even the score. Richard Hamilton led all players with 25 points including a clutch jump shot over Jason Kidd to put Detroit up 4 with 15.5 left in the game.

After the game, Kidd said, "With all the talk throughout the year that they were going to catch us, that they were a better team, they wanted to play us in the playoffs; like I said, sometimes it's fools gold. Sometimes you wish for something that you wanted but in reality you don't want it. They got what they needed." The Nets will play the winner of the Milwaukee-Detroit as the Knicks go home to watch the rest of the playoffs on TV. Perhaps they will go home and talk about how they were robbed and how they were actually the better team and will wage-war against the Nets next year.

The New York City Blackout Edition
The city's true grit showed during its literally darkest hours and Gothamist has the evidence.

Last week, Herbert Muschamp went ga-ga over the new street lighting fixtures downtown, which were designed Cooper, Robertson and Partners. Muschamp goes on to say that he "usually resists" beautification projects and distrusts business improvement distracts, but he's extremely taken by the Alliance for Downtown NY's efforts with these street lamps, which he calls "lights at the end of my tunnel."

Weekend at the Times: Glenn Collins quizzes New Yorkers with how well they really know the city with aerial photographs by Vincent Laforet. This one Gothamist knew immediately.

Post snow coverage: The Daily News proclaims Dig We Must, and all I have to say is luckily many people had President's Day and that lots of kids were already on their mid-winter break. The New York Times features the messy travel part of the blizzard, as well as how the snow muffles a bit of the terrorist jitters. Of course, the Post says that basically the clean up will be pricey at about $1million per inch of fallen snow. Hopefully, we'll be measuring with the techniques mentioned in Slate's Explainer.