City Staffer's Sexy Night Job; Soup Ladle Saves Day; Shroom Shrinks For Hire: Patch PM

NEW YORK, NY — It's disorientingly hot outside, record-breakingly hot, and yet somehow, chances keep rising for another round of snow to hit NYC over the three-day weekend. But the weather's not nearly the weirdest thing to happen to the city today. Here are Thursday's top 10 local news stories — pulled from our 28 neighborhood Patch sites across NYC — worth talking about at dinnertime.

City Staffer Moonlighted As Hooker At Sunset Park Hotel, Police Say

Department of Corrections employee Lisa Smith, 26, was caught after allegedly offering her services to an undercover NYPD detective.

WATCH: Brooklyn Chef Fights Off Robber With Soup Ladle

"I don't think he's going to come back again," the restaurant owner says.

Manhattan Therapy Center Wants To Help You Process Your Psychedelic Trip

For $30 a pop — or $15 for students.

Firefighter Impersonator Arrested At JFK

Jose Vasquez tried to use a fake firefighter badge to park in a no-parking zone at the airport, police say.

Teen Admits To Stabbing Popular Upper West Side Food Cart Vendor

Sameh Bules has served Upper West Siders breakfast from the same spot for nearly four years.

Harlem Graffiti: 'All White People Suck D*ck'

Police are searching for the West 123rd Street vandal.

Armed Robber Holds Up Bronx Bodega For Single Cigarette

The store's cashier complied with his request, police say.

Brooklyn Jail Guard Allegedly Smuggled 'K2' To Prisoners

The federal prison guard allegedly accepted thousands of dollars from an inmate's girlfriend to smuggle K2 (synthetic weed) and other contraband into the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park.

New Gowanus Canal Health Report: Top 10 Scariest Excerpts

Pulled from 86 pages of insights into "one of the nation's most extensively contaminated water bodies."

Cool New Map Shows Social-Justice Landmarks In East Village, West Village

Related: A (free!) bar crawl through the Villages at the end of January will introduce you to the historic watering holes of the LGBT rights movement.