- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A person shot on W144 St in Manhattan, a person in water at W16 St & Coney Island in Brooklyn and a suspicious package at Barclay Ave in Queens.
- A Staten Island Independence Party member quit the party, claiming it doesn’t stand for anything.
- Vice President Joe Biden didn’t mind General Stanley McChrystal’s criticism of him in Rolling Stone, explaining, “Compared to what happens in politics, that was a piece of cake.”
- Curbed outlines the main points of a family drama, including a sex change, in a Central Park West apartment.
- NY visits the site of the old Ebbets Field.
- Apparently Huggies’ foray into “denim diapers” is paying off.
- Roman Polanski is enjoying his freedom, attending the Montreux Jazz Festival to see his wife perform. He even gave an interview.
- A group of mobsters arrested for charges including sex trafficking are saying they have owies.
