Around 3 am on Sunday, police divers in the Harlem River, near 123rd Street, found a semiautomatic .40-caliber weapon that authorities believe Tyrone Howard used to shoot and kill NYPD Officer Randolph Holder earlier this week, the New York Times reports.

City workers, joined by hired helpers from Ohio, have successfully fixed the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant, thereby stopping the flow of raw sewage that was poopifying New York's Hudson and Harlem Rivers. You can swim now. [Image via Flickr]