Extra, Extra: How TMZ Makes Its Celebrity Sausage

Feb. 15, 2016, 3:07 p.m.

Sports Illustrated's new covers McSorley's turns 162, a new pizza rat, revisiting the murder of Jonathan Levin, Scalia recalls NYC of youth and more day's end links.

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• The Little Pizza Rat Who Could has made it to Hamilton Heights.
• Cheers to McSorley's on its 162nd Birthday.
• Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue has three different covers, including a plus-size model and Ronda Rousey.
• Revisiting the murder of Jonathan Levin and the man convicted of the murder who maintains his innocence.
• The New Yorker took a deep dive into TMZ, exposing some not-surprising methods to gaining celebrity scoops.
• A Staten Island man who left baby raccoons to die slowly in a cage has been arrested on animal cruelty charges.
• A horrific story about a Rikers inmate denied the use of a toilet, hospital care after attempting suicide.
• Antonin Scalia recalling the Elmhurst of his youth: "A really mishmash sort of a New York...there were Irish, German, Jewish, Italian—it was the face of New York City."
• A cop from Staten Island has been arrested for domestic violence.
• And finally, on a cold day like today, this is valuable life information: