McCall Sticks With Hillary
• Barack Obama is making overtures to one of Hillary’s main African-American supporters in New York — pre-Hevesi State Comptroller Carl McCall, once the state’s highest elected black official. McCall says he’ll stick with Hillary. [NYP]
• Yesterday’s favorite tabloid story — a Madison Avenue antiques dealer is suing a homeless guy for standing in front of his windows — got a sequel today: The latter has a friend and patron in multimillionaire Edward Baron Cohen (no relation to Sasha). Which increases the beyond-awesome likelihood we might actually see that suit play out. [NYDN]
• Several Roman Catholic parishes in the city, including Manhattan’s St. Vincent de Paul, are about to close as part of the church’s reorganization. The news itself may be less notable than the fact that the Times appears to have an anonymous source in the church. [NYT]
• Newsday minds the gap — with a scarily comprehensive report on that pesky bit of space between the platform and the train. Turns out it’s a more serious menace than most think, with 900 incidents reported since 1995 on the LIRR alone. [Newsday]
• And you know who we haven’t heard from even once in the whole Jim McGreevey saga? His now-estranged wife, Dina, who’s about to rectify things with a deal for a tell-all memoir. The book will, sadly, be called Silent Partner rather than American Beard. [NYP]
