http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/nyregion/new-york-tonight-bronx-explosion-brooklyn-police-shooting-bridgegate-trial-penn-station-cuomo.html 2016-09-28 00:07:37 New York Tonight: A Fatal Blast in the Bronx, and a Bullet in Brooklyn What you need to know about the explosion in Kingsbridge, the police shooting in Bedford Stuyvesant and the George Washington Bridge saga. === Good evening on this This is New York Tonight, a brand-new evening roundup of the day’s most important New York stories. Forget the debates. It’s been quite a busy news day in New York and across the river. An Mayor Bill de Blasio The site of the blast is being investigated as a possible drug den. But now, it’s little more than rubble. Soon afterward, In Newark, the trial continued over the 2013 lane shutdown at the George Washington Bridge. David Wildstein, the confessed mastermind of the scheme, returned to the stand to tell all. Takeaways from his testimony In fact, it made him laugh. Just delightful. Amid all that’s going on, though, there’s one place where things are looking up: Penn Station. Yup. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced today a Expect a new home for Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road, prettier platforms and even some shopping — though we’re just fine filling up on We’ll believe it when we see it, and that might not be until 2020. • • • • A 280-pound sea turtle • • • • • ‘ Dear Diary: On my first Halloween in Gotham City, an old boyfriend and I retreated to the warmth of a deli on 50th Street. We had tried to go to the parade, but I was too cold in my flowy, black, not-meant-for-New-York-autumn skirt. We were dressed as Batman and Batwoman. I had spent hours perfecting a Batwoman mask painted onto my forehead and cheeks. When I was two bites into my deli cheeseburger, three police officers approached the section where we were seated. One of the officers nonchalantly invited himself to our table, pulling up a chair. He asked us what seemed like 20,000 questions: how old we were, how we met, our plans for the night and so on. I felt confused, nervous and slightly ridiculous in my costume. The officer’s female partner, sitting a few tables away, laughed. She eventually yelled at him to leave us alone. The tension broken, we talked with the three officers for a while. We asked if they knew the best spot if we wanted to try another parade come They got a call on their radios and had to rush away. Just when I thought I had survived my first New York Police Department questioning, the woman officer pulled out her notebook and asked for names and phone numbers. My heart skipped a beat. Were we being given a ticket? Detained? For what? She smiled and said they would give us a call if they had any leads on good viewing spots for Thanksgiving morning. We never heard back, and left the Macy’s parade early because of the cold, too.