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But those who got good seats for the event are hanging in, The Wonkster reports: "The viewing galleries are at overflow capacity and interested parties sit ducking their heads to get a glimpse through windows."

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But the alleged queen of the scheme, Danielle Chiesi, remains defiant.

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In a press conference today the Mayor said that "the forecasts sometimes are wrong" but if the storm is "as severe as forecast... it really does present potentially serious safety hazards."

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Investigators also found, amid the medical detritus in the room, "several empty orange juice bottles," which fills in the urine picture a little.

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​If and when the Times breaks its David Paterson story, some of the news is expected to focus on the governor's exploitation of his campaign kitty for personal use. In that spirit, let's consider the opposite: the use of a campaign committee to advance the public interest.

And guess what? It involves the governor's nemesis, Andrew Cuomo.

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DATE: Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2010.
LOCATION: 17 Slaight St., Port Richmond, Staten Island.

Jahaad Chesson, the accused killer of a Staten Island man told reporters yesterday he was "high as a motherfucker when I did it."

The statement kind of, sort of sounded like a confession to the murder of Anthony Illidge, of Port Richmond. But when he was questioned further by reporters...

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Close came to fame by taking photographs of his subjects and then sometimes using an airbrush and grids to create hyper-realist paintings from them. (A nice synopsis of his methods may be found here.) In 1998 he suffered a spinal artery collapse and was paralyzed from the neck down; he continues to paint with assistance*, and has turned to a more pointillistic approach, as seen in this self-portrait.

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Seabrook is accused of muscling the Yankees to award a boiler sub-contract to a company of his choosing, which then demanded a $13,000 "premium" (and got the contract); Seabrook then allegedly "directly solicited a series of payments" from the boiler company, laundering them through his political club. In commission of this fraud, he is said to have used doctored receipts -- including one for "a bagel sandwich and diet beverage" costing $177 -- and used the reimbursements for his personal use.

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​Every baseball fan will want to watch Bob Costas interview Willie Mays tonight on the MLB Network's Studio 42 (8:00 pm EST). But fans should also be cautioned that Willie's memory isn't what it once was. According to a column attributed to Wayne Coffey, Michael O'Keefe, and Mark Lelinwalla in Sunday's Daily News, "It seems that the night before Game 1 [of the 1962 World Series] in San Francisco, Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford ran up a tab of $5,000 on Giants owner Horace Stoneham's account at the tony Olympic Country Club. When Stoneham found out, he told Ford he'd forgive the debt if Ford could strike out Mays in Game 1...

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​Meteorologists predict a storm, and the Daily News says "officials are worried that buses could get stuck as the city is blanketed by the second snow storm in a week." (To the left, an image of the damage last weekend's storm did to the same neighborhood.)

Some observers wonder why the city fathers couldn't wait until there was actual snow to cancel school, but that is pre-9/11 thinking. If the snow isn't bad enough to keep kids out in the morning, authorities reason, it might possibly be bad enough to make the commute home difficult.

Come to think of it, the snow might be really bad, so why not cancel Thursday, too?