1. Our acquaintances over at The Morning News have developed the city's most hilarious holiday t-shirt: "The Squirrel That Ate Christmas". Buy one today!
2. Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: many suspicious packages all over town, a motorcycle accident on East 47th Street, and a jumper down on East 20th Street.
3. We're not sure what's happening in this photo, but it may well be the cutest thing we've ever posted to Gothamist.
4. AMNY has a great piece about endangered NYC buildings, including public schools, houses of worship, an automat building on 104th and Broadway, and the 1964 World's Fair Complex. Don't miss the photo gallery.
5. Apparently Judith Regan was fired for making an anti-semitic remark-- she said a "Jewish Cabal" was plotting against her! That whole OJ thing probably didn't help, though.
6. Sheldon Silver is the new Robert Moses-- his vote will determine if the Atlantic Yards gets built.
7. There have been a rash of thefts at the Park Slope Food Coop, and some "unnamed members [are] saying that those who appear to be outsiders (which some read to mean poor blacks) are not being carded at the door because the co-op’s members (which some read to mean privileged whites) are afraid of looking racist, resulting in purse-nabbings."
8. Good news for LIRR riders on the East Side: the federal government is giving NYC $2.5 billion to build an LIRR terminal at Grand Central.
9. Whale vomit is worth as $10/gram, which means a lump owned by a pensioner in Montauk could be worth as much as $18,000! If only kitty throw-up was worth that much, we'd totally be able to quit this blogging thing.
10. Eugenia Klopsis is an EMT in Brooklyn-- she's been writing some amazing pieces for The Sun.
11. Time to panic: The Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count revealed "the numbers of Eastern Meadowlarks and Ring-necked Pheasants have plummeted from what they were in decades past."

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