26-year-old Phillippe Treuille was sad because a girl dumped him. He was soothing his pain by contemplating the East River yesterday, when a passing stranger told him to jump in. He did, and survived. See what you did, stranger? [Gothamist]

[New Yorkers yesterday swam in pools that were converted from dumpsters on Park Avenue as part of the city's Summer Streets, where streets are temporarily closed to car traffic. Image via Getty]

A shark was spotted at Rockaway Beach yesterday, and the Post really went for it: A "finned fiend" emerged at "Shark-away Beach" and "took a bite out of a beautiful morning" — the third sighting of "toothy terrors" this summer!

Author and intellectual Tony Judt died yesterday in New York at 62, after a battle with ALS. His best known book, "Postwar," about Europe after WW2 was called "remarkable" by The New Yorker. Read his final essays, starting here.

Adnan Shukrijumah spent 15 formative years in Brooklyn. Then he joined Al Qaeda as a dishwasher in an Afghanistan camp. Now he's al Qaeda's "chief of worldwide operations." Those Brooklyn boys! They just pick up and forget what made 'em.

Poor Caroline Giuliani. Arrested for stealing makeup from Sephora on the Upper East Side on Wednesday, she was obviously the victim of inept police work because she was handcuffed. Handcuffed! The daughter of "America's Mayor" deserves better than that.

Magnus Saethre, "Old Man Mike," is a 97-year-old WW2 veteran who pays $63.29 per month for his one bedroom Sunset Park, Brooklyn apartment. So, naturally, his landlord is trying to kick him out "for the [benefit] of the building's tenants."

The state of New York finally has a budget, and it's only 125 days late.

Recession? What recession? New York is home to 667,200 millionaires! And 14,771,188 other people ("losers").

This is a campaign video for New York gubernatorial candidate Kristin Davis. Not the Sex and the City actress—the madam who provided former Governor Eliot Spitzer with call girls and was sent to Rikers for four months.

Goldman Sachs can't do anything right. The embattled investment bank is now getting heat from its Battery Park City neighbors because the Hudson ferry boats they use — the Yogi Berra and Frank Sinatra — are too loud. Where's Lloyd?!

Rich old people beware: The Post says "a group of Gypsies" are running around New York! Just ask 95-year-old Alan Russell, who met "Suprena" on the street and eventually gave her $350,000 so she could buy property in Florida.

Rep. Anthony Weiner's incredible rant last night, directed at Republicans for killing a health bill for 9/11 responders, landed him a Fox News appearance this morning alongside his specific GOP target, Rep. Peter King. More hilarious (but interesting!) bickering ensued.

Part of the Village is on lockdown ahead of Obama's visit to Anna Wintour's place.

A new system goes into effect today that will have a letter grade — A, B, or C — based on a Department of Health evaluation posted in the window of every New York City restaurant. Prepare to be disappointed/grossed-out.

Former hip hop mogul Damon Dash ran into some money trouble a few years back (we can think of a few reasons why) and reportedly stopped paying a $78,504.20-per-month mortgage. Now comes the foreclosure auction.

Mayor Bloomberg's girlfriend, Diana Taylor, says she could have beaten Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in an election: "I think I could have. I do." But will she run in 2012? "Never say never." Oh, the suspense is killing us!

[A 350-foot-long replacement for the Willis Avenue bridge, which connects Manhattan to the Bronx, is floated up the East River on a barge today. Image via AP]

Riding a Brooklyn-bound 4 train, amateur photographer Kate Black noticed a man "pitching a tent" and "thrusting his hips" in ladies' faces. Thinking quickly, Kate photographed him, then declared a jihad against the pervert on her Flickr page.

There's nothing like grabbing a hot dog, a $12 beer and enjoying a ball game, right? Well, as long as you don't mind the possibility of "mouse excreta" or some dead fruit flies as an extra topping.