Were you walking down East 114th Street in New York City Tuesday night? Did you pass a guy with a big roller suitcase? Because, uh, the police want to talk to you. Since the suitcase maybe had a body inside.

Crooked old Charlie Rangel was censured by his colleagues yesterday, which is pretty embarrassing and whatnot. But say Rangel steps down. Who will replace him? The Daily News hears "speculation" that equally-crooked Governor David Paterson could take over. Great idea!

Rap promoter Huddy 6 died yesterday in a car accident on the GW Bridge at 33-years-old. Juelz Santana tweeted: "A! R.I.P. HUDDY 6 @hud6 SMFH if u don't or didn't know who he was jus know this, he was HARLEM!!!!."

You know those stories about soldiers who carry bullet-stopping Bibles in their breast pockets? A guy in Harlem got shot today, but the cellphone in his pocket stopped the bullet. Maybe God found out that we call phones "Jesus" now?

At least there's a Harold Ford interview to entertain us today. Has Prince Hal changed his tune on Wall Street bonuses, or health care reform? No one knows, because the Daily News reporter was not allowed to ask about "issues."

Last night was the premiere of This Is It, and there were galas in 16 cities around the world. Most of them were huge, ornate affairs. Except in New York, where barely anyone noticed.

• Russell Simmons' brother Danny, who runs a gallery in Brooklyn and co-founded the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation with his brothers Russell and Rev Run, has put his 2,000-square-foot loft in Clinton Hill up for sale for $1.175 million. [WSJ, Corcoran]
• Raphael De Niro, the son of Robert De Niro and a managing director at Prudential Douglas Elliman, has a new apartment. He and wife Claudine paid $2.9 million for a three-bedroom condo at 497 Greenwich Street. [Real Deal]

Well, the L'Occitane-scented waters of the gentrification wave are already rolling back, as predicted: megarealtor Corcoran is closing its Harlem office. Is anyone thinking of the white people?

• David Halberstam's Doonesbury appearance: He kissed Woodward and Bernstein's Guccis. [Slate]
  

While the British campaign to rename a stretch of Greenwich Avenue is slow going (despite the endorsement of redcoat Sir Harold Evans and his Mata Hari wife Tina Brown), a shadowy evil British corporation called Dawnay, Day has bought 47 buildings in East Harlem for US $250 million.

Part-This Old House part-Walkabout and part Crash, the series follows David Basche and wife Alysia Reiner as they gut, renovate and gentrify a house at 126th Street or so.

A recent transplant to the city, Dashiell continues his quest to discover the "real New York." Help him find it at newguy@gawker.com.

Destination: 125th Street, Harlem.
Guide: The Assimilated Negro, black guy.

From the wilds of Harlem comes a heartwarming story of a playground, a park official, and his beloved cock. A scrappy rooster, perhaps a retired cockfighter, has taken up residence at the Frederick Johnson playground, pecking and crowing and shitting all over its perch on the monkeybars for the past two weeks. And while he may not be as patriotic as the DHS's terror turkey, the Harlem cock is a great, exciting pet:

Some disturbing news for city youth: The Post reports on a Columbia study finding that kids who are exposed to a high level of air pollution in the womb do poorly on cognitive tests. The analysis shows that "kids exposed to the highest readings of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in utero - mostly exhaust fumes from cars, buses and trucks, as well as power generators - scored 5.7 points lower on cognitive tests than did kids in the sample who were subjected to lower levels of pollutants."

The pretty, sparkly ladies at Daily Candy are always ahead of the curve, recommending the best in overpriced food and fashion in places you've never heard of. One can only assume that similar sense of trendy adventure led the Daily Candy girls to recommend CAP USA sportswear in today's newsletter, where you can bling-up your Chucks or get some custom-designed Jordans with that adorable Dooney & Burke logo.