If you see a sea of yellow in the East River tomorrow, don't fret, it's just the thousands and thousands of rubber duckies floating to the finish line. Racing from the Brooklyn Bridge to South Street Seaport in the annual Million Dollar Duck Race, the event will help raise money for the Special Olympics New York branch, and there are still ducks up for adoption! They're still short on their 25,000 duck goal, so why......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a partial collapse at Fleet Court and Woodhaven Blvd. in Queens, two pedestrians were struck on the westbound Grand Central Parkway at Queens Boulevard in Queens, and a stabbing on West 21st St. in Manhattan. All three area airports: Newark, JFK, and Laguardia, were thrown into chaos yesterday after a computer malfunction in the air traffic control system resulted in multi-hour delays, missed connections, and many unhappy passengers. Gov.......

It's hard to believe Run DMC's "Christmas in Hollis" came out almost 20 years ago. The song was included on the 1987 A Very Special Christmas album, the first in a series of compilations to benefit the Special Olympics. Also on that cd (which included cover art by Keith Haring): Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band singing "Merry Christmas Baby". Happy Holidays!......

- We have not perused it in full, but we are sure this site on the concept of eating local will consume a bit of our time this week. - Our friend Julia from Grip-n-Grin is hosting a chocolate tasting at Kanvas this Thursday to benefit the Special Olympics. For more information, please see the site. - Mr. Cutlets (aka Josh Ozersky) drops his list of top burgers – both locally and from national chains.......

The NY Times looks at the "cat and mouse game" between the graffiti artists and the police. There are a couple factions: Those who fly under the radar to tag illegally, the taggers who go "legit" and take commercial commissions, and the police who try to stop the illegal taggers. The Mayor upped the ante by forming the anti-graffiti crime unit (the Mayor's Anti-Graffiti Task Force) earlier this year, and one graffiti writer, Ray......

Gothamist was discussing videos filmed in New York yesterday, and today stereogum has photos of Britney Spears filming her new video in, yes, the Big Apple. We can't tell where she is, exactly, except somewhere where she wears an oversized trucker hat that makes her look like she followed Cartman's plan on how to pretend to be retarded for the Special Olympics (episode 803; see also). Snoop Dogg is also in the video, which gives......

The new logo for NYC's Olympics bid was unveiled yesterday and, while Gothamist is no design expert, let's just say that it sucks. The informal straw poll quotes: "That's a bit gay...isn't it?" "That's pretty lame. Looks like a cross dresser Olympics. It'd be a good logo for the upcoming Wigstock, though." "Is it for the Special Olympics? And the Special Olympics logo is actually pretty good!" We get that it's the Statue of Liberty......