There have been reports of very long lines at the polls this morning. More than 400 people were already assembled outside P.S. 9 in Prospect Heights when the polls opened at 6 a.m. Confusion reigned outside the Hell's Kitchen polling station at 520 West 45th Street, where lines reportedly snaked around the block. Elected officials have had to patiently wait their turns. Chuck Schumer passed the time on a Brooklyn sidewalk chatting on his cell phone. Michael Bloomberg was No. 270 in line when he turned up on the Upper East Side this morning and he spent 45 minutes chatting with reporters and aides before getting a chance to make his pick. One person ahead of him? Eliot Spitzer. [NYT, WNBC, NYP, NYO]

Liv Tyler pushing her son in a stroller outside their West Village townhouse ... Chuck Schumer and Al Sharpton walking through Midtown ... Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos filming a cooking segment with their son for Live with Regis & Kelly ... Lauren Hutton wearing shorts and sneakers on a walk downtown ... Rumer Willis posing in a party dress outside the David Letterman show ... Madonna's kids, Lourdes, Rocco, and David, playing in Central Park with the nanny ... and Brody Jenner leaving a dinner at Cipriani Downtown.

• Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty today to all six counts in connection with her assault on a police officer at Heathrow back in April. A sentencing date hasn't been set, but she's looking at a maximum six-month prison sentence and a $10,000 fine. We bet garbage duty in New York's looking a whole lot better now. [Daily Telegraph]

Chuck Schumer took home $467,000 last year, according to documents released today. It's a career high, notwithstanding the recession underway. And it's thanks to you, New York! The rise was attributed to Schumer's wife's new job as vice chancellor of city-funded CUNY. [NYP]

We'd sure like to take a peek at Chuck Schumer's iPod. Speaking to reporters this week, the nebbishy senator took to quoting Amy Winehouse while describing the Senate standoff between Democrats and Republicans: "It's sort of like that song. Democrats say, 'Let's legislate,' and [Republicans] just say, 'No, no no.' They need rehab, I guess." Guess Amy knows who she can call the next time she has visa trouble. [Politico]

Democrat Charles "Chuck" Ellis Schumer has been New York's senior senator since 2000.

Here's a cartoon drawn by Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) for a neurofibromatosis charity. The doodle, which sold on eBay for $2075, "features Senators Chuck Schumer, the head of the Senate Democrats' campaign arm; Harry Reid, the majority leader, Dianne Feinstein of California and Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts." How can you not love this guy? He's a stirring speaker, he offers the nation a chance to heal its differences, and he's completely able to capture Chuck Schumer's gigantic, Jewy hooknose! We think the choice is clear.

SOME of the most powerful Democrats in America are split over a most incendiary household issue: rodents."I once had to pick up a mouse by the tail that Durbin refused to pick up," complained Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, referring to his roommate Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois. This characterization is not fair to Mr. Durbin, interjected another tenant in the Capitol Hill row house, Representative Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts. For starters, it overlooks Mr. Durbin's gift for killing rats. "He will kill them with his bare hands," Mr. Delahunt marveled. "Oh, will you stop with the rats," said the annoyed fourth roommate, Representative George Miller of California. He owns the house and is sensitive to any suggestion that he harbors pestilence. It's dicey enough that he harbors politicians. Think MTV's "Real World" with a slovenly cast of Democratic power brokers.

• The year in catfights. Yeah, we'd probably fight if we had to be on The View, too. [Radar]
  

God, we miss Pat Moynihan.

The News' Ben Smith takes note of the following event:

The Forward reports today on a budding controversy: A cartoon on a recent National Review cover that some say is obviously an anti-Semitic attack on Sen. Chuck Schumer. But NR editor Rich Lowry thinks that charge is ridiculous.