>> There’s no doubt that we’re relieved that the Metro passenger who was struck by the outbound Blue train at Rosslyn this morning did not sustain serious injury. But, we can’t stress this enough, people —don’t crowd the edge of theplatform! We’d like to keep all of you around. [Washington Post] >> That said, let’s be glad we seem to be made of sterner stuff than New York State Senator Carl Kruger, who’d like to…

Now Gothamist can feel our pain and horror: they’ve had their first sighting of a snakehead fish in a lake in Queens.Last month, biologists with New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation were doing a routine sampling of the fish in the brackish water at Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens when, to their horror, they found a northern snakehead fish, then another and another until they had five, including one monster 28…