Harlem Headlines

Mission: Accomplished: He came, we saw, he grinned. "Hey, man" and "take care" was pretty much all Tom Cruise had to say to those who got near him as he traversed through Manhattan and into Harlem publicizing his new movie “Mission: Impossible lll.” A whole lot of teenage girls were on hand to greet the star, who arrived in Harlem yesterday after catching rides on a fire truck, helicopter, motorcycle, speed boat and sports car.

“He can jump on my couch anytime,” said one fan.

Cruise dropped in to tape a show at BET, then went across 125th St. to the Magic Johnson Theatre, where he met rapper Kanye West. When he was through, he took a $10,000-dollar rented subway car down to midtown for his final premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre.

Here are some more shots of Tom in Harlem, courtesy of uptown blogger extraordinaire Joe Schumacher.

Uptown New York Project Scrapped: It’s not every day the Bloomberg administration recscinds on one of its large development projects. But today, a$1 billion East Harlem plan including a new shopping district, condominium towers and bus depot has been killed. Opponents said the plan would aggravate the area's high asthma rate.