Previously on Gothamist

- That wacky incident with Colin Powell, palm trees in Jordan, and Meet the Press
- Are air filters the key to bringing back smoking in bars?
- The odd case of the passenger who claims her taxi driver raped her but tha taxi driver says the sex was consensual
- New York makes the Olympic shortlist, but we're in 4th (out of 5 cities) place
- Stuyvesant's principal says Stuy is overcrowded
- BAM's exterior is almost all clean
- Columbia's J School students document a day in the life of NYC
- The 9/11 Hearings: Day 1 and Day 2
- Last day of Lennie
- A new ice cream joint in the West Village: Mary's Dairy
- Anil moves to SF, but Gothamist thinks the heart of blogging is in NYC

Also, the week in full. Plus, look at a round-up of a week of great advice from Ask Gothamist and check the forecast with Gothamist Weather.