• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: Reptiles on 39th Avenue and 111th Street in Queens, a person shot at Boyland and Sumpter in Brooklyn and police are searching the water near Battery Park City because a woman threw a baby carriage into the Hudson; it's unclear if a baby was in it, but dietrich on Flickr has pictures of the search
• Apparently police are investigating whether the children - including a 22-year-old Parsons grad - of the Long Island couple accused of keeping and torturing two Indonesian woman also participated in the abuse
• Christie's had a record night at its contemporary art auction: Andy Warhol's Green Car Crash sold for a record $71.7 million (previous record for a Warhol: $17.4 million for Mao last year)
• Brownstoner on the "upzoning" of Brooklyn's 4th Avenue: It "won't exactly be a boulevard of beauty (unless your idea of beauty is early-80's Holiday Inn chic)"
• Speaking of Brooklyn, Pale Male's kids are moving there; semi-related, why does this chicken coop look nicer than many city apartments?
• Sliver buildings are popping up all over the city again, but they are nothing like Edna St. Vincent Millay's 9.5 foot wide house in Greenwich Village
• An elderly man was found murdered in his Murray Hill apartment at 145 East 35th Street last night
• And, Dawn Ostroff, you make us really, really sad

Photograph by kenyee on Flickr