Liz Dahlem

- Shots rang out just before 10 a.m. Thursday in front of the RKM card and Gift shop on Castle Hill Avenue in the Bronx. A gunman walked right up to two men and a woman, who appears to have been an innocent bystander, and shot them point blank. NYPD Assistant Chief Jason Wilcox said responding officers found two 33-year-old men shot in the head and a 45-year-old woman shot in the torso.

- This real estate beneath the Gowanus Expressway might be a place you speed right past and never give a second look. Yet, others see beauty here. "The bridge itself is really unique with those splayed columns and the curved beam," said Leni Schwendinger, lighting fellow for Design Trust for Public Space.

- Daniela Savone, of Westchester, New York, has been in the kitchen her entire life. Cooking and food are in her blood, she says. Her parents came to Mamaroneck from Italy in the 1970s. Her father Luigi owned an Italian Deli in North Rockland, where she worked every summer. But it was her nonna who taught her all of the secrets behind the stove. Daniela says she would watch her grandmother cook all day and help her. The self-taught chef has two cookbooks but wanted to pursue her culinary dream.