It ain’t local–at all–but over the weekend, the New York Times had the jewel heist story of the fourth quarter, and maybe of the year.
So: shortly before 6 p.m. on Dec. 4, four robbers whom police suspect may be members of “a loose global network of battle-hardened, ex-soldiers and their relatives from the former Yugoslavia” [...]

The Queen Elizabeth 2 sailed into New York for her last visit, before shipping out to Dubai where she’ll become a floating hotel (a flo-tel?).
And way down in the story–around where the New York Times remembers other notable floating hotels–our own Queen Mary pops up.
“The farewell to New York, to be marked by fireworks salutes [...]