BROOKLYN WEATHER: What’s it gonna do today? Check here for Brooklyn weather.
FYI: Tuesday through Saturday April
26-30 alternate-side-of-the-street-parking is suspended due to
religious observance (Passover). All other parking regulations in
effect.
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CITY NEWS: The Daily News reports: suspicious material on a United Airlines
flight from New York to San Francisco prompted the pilot to make an
emergency landing Tuesday at O’Hare International Airport. The material turned out to be wires, an MP3 player and homeopathic
medicines, said Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Ann
Davis.
_11 injured in multi-car crash involving a taxi in Times Square.
_City murder rate on track for 40-year low.
_The NYC Department of Health is warning New Yorkers to use window
guards and to make sure they are installed properly after a 2-year old
boy named Jonathan Sanchez died falling 6
stories when the window guard, which were improperly installed, gave
way when he leaned against the window.
_In a
talk at the Tribeca Film Festival (which is in full swing), Actress
Maggie Gyllenhaal, star of a new flick
about the aftermath of 9/11, said that the U.S. "is responsible
in some way" for the devastating terror attacks. She is getting a
beating from the local press (Daily News, Post) for saying it. Slow
news weekend, I guess. Her new movie "The Great New Wonderful" has a plot centered on
the destruction of the World Trade Center – premiered Friday.
"I think what’s good about the movie is that it deals with 9/11 in such
a subtle, open way that I think it allows it to be more complicated
than just, ‘Oh, look at these poor New Yorkers and how hard it was for
them,’" Gyllenhaal told the NY1 cable channel.
BROOKLYN BEAT: CHERRY BLOSSOMS ARE IN BLOOM IN THE BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDENS. The garden has 200 trees – the most cherry blossom trees outside of Japan. The Sakura Matsura Festival is this Sunday.
_Jewish leaders in Williamsburg lash out at FDNY for slow response to fire that killed three boys.
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_A hit-and-run driver yesterday critically injured a 7-year-old Brooklyn boy as he crossed the street to buy ice cream, witnesses said. The boy, identified by his family as Charles Santiago, was crossing Milford Street in East New York around 7:45 p.m. when a 1997 white Chrysler slammed into him, police said. Charles was taken to Jamaica Hospital in Queens with multiple head injuries and two broken legs.
_Three boys died and
four other people were
injured in a fast-moving fire. Flames broke out shortly before 6 a.m.
on the second floor of
104 Ross Street, a six-story apartment building near Bedford Avenue in
Williamsburg, according to fire officials. Investigators say the fire
likely started in a gas stove, by
accident, but they don