- Police arrest a man for allegedly trying to rape a woman on East 7th Street (Post).
- A pedestrian was severely injured after being struck by a motorcycle on East 12th Street (EV Grieve).
- After the arrest of a gun-toting tourist at the 9/11 Memorial, Sheldon Silver says the Assembly will look at whether the state’s gun possession law should be softened (Post).
- Following decades of neglect the city promises a “new golden age” for the East River waterfront is at hand (NYT).
- As the Year of the Dragon approaches (January 23), more speculation about the future of this country’s Chinatowns (NPR).
- Patti Smith announces that – after 14 years – she’s ending her New Year’s Eve show at the Bowery Ballroom (NYT).
- New Filmmakers series comes to Anthology Film Archives tomorrow (Broadway World).
