In an effort to snare some of the New York Times’ local advertising, the Wall Street Journal is adding a  “Greater New York” section, a mix of local New York politics, real estate, crime, society and sports coverage, that will run six times a week and range from eight to 12 pages.

It remains to be seen what kind of borough coverage this new section will offer. Newscorp (owned by Rupert Murdoch), also owns the New York Post and has been buying up local NYC newspapers like the Brooklyn Paper. and Courier Life.

Today’s Greater New York sections leads with a story about rats on the Upper East Side, an article on the Brooklyn Ball and “watching the fashionable crowd tackle nine legs of beef, 16 turkeys, two whole pigs and 150 rabbits in the Brooklyn Museum’s Beaux-Arts Court” and a story about the high-security storage site designed to hold millions of dollars’ worth of art in Dumbo owned by a subsidiary of Christie’s