[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]
Your Monday New York headlines:
Times catching up on the Rikers Fight Club story that the Voice‘s Graham Rayman has been reporting for nearly two years.
More AIG drama: Bailout money went to foreign firms and other big banks that AIG owed in derivative gambles. (This isn’t news to you if you’d read Jim Lieber’s “What Cooked the World’s Economy” in the Voice.)
Nonprofits dealing with swell of volunteers as the laid-off lend a hand during their job searches.
Actor Ron Silver dies of cancer at 62.
Tough neighborhood! Woman struck in the abdomen by an arrow outside a Bronx nursing home.
Vox Pop, a coffeshop/bookstore credited with improving a Brooklyn neighborhood now on the brink.
Fire shuts noted Totonno’s pizzeria in Coney Island, owned by same family since 1924.
LeBron James puts an end to the Knicks 3-game winning streak, 98-93.
Team USA stomps the Dutch, 9-3, to stave off, gulp, elimination.
Sean Avery scores twice as Rangers down the Flyers 4-1.
Find it at villagevoice.com:
Michael Musto’s blog (La Daily Musto) and column (La Dolce Musto)
Wayne Barrett: news features and latest blogging
Tom Robbins: the column and latest blogging
News blog Runnin’ Scared, featuring Roy Edroso, and including Jockbeat by Allen Barra
Music & arts blog, Sound of the City
Food blog Fork in the Road
Ward Harkavy blogs the financial world at The Smart Asset
J. Hoberman’s film reviews
Michael Feingold’s theater reviews
Robert Sietsema’s food column, Counter Culture
Sarah DiGregorio’s food column, Fork in the Road
Rob Harvilla’s music column, Down in Front
Graham Rayman’s news features and latest blogging
Elizabeth Dwoskin’s news features and latest blogging