Lightning over Staten Island last night, courtesy Bartosz Rozyk.
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- Retired EMT Judy Wade celebrated her 82nd birthday by skydiving with her grandson, a Daily News reporter who wrote a sweet story about it.
- In the future, your bicycle will automatically shift gears by reading your brain waves.
- Ramadan starts today.
- There may be a new lead in the D.B. Cooper case.
- Bowery Boogie has fun photos from yesterday's Mad Hatter tea party in Tompkins Square Park yesterday.
- Twitter might have a NYC office.
- A child running "wild" on a plane forced the plane to return to the gate.
- Staten Islanders like the healthier Happy meals.
- And WOR President Rick Buckley died.
