John Kuhner

Here's a nice sweet story for a change: Beth Elohim, the Park Slope synagogue targeted by the Westboro Baptist Church, will be holding its Yom Kippur services at Park Slope Old First Dutch Reformed Church. Apparently the synagogue had suffered a partial roof collapse on Thursday, and needed a... continue reading on Gothamist

Burj Dubai — the skyscraper begun in 2004 and soon to be finished — is more than a thousand feet taller than NY's tallest building. This is the Green Room has a neat little post comparing the view from several NY skyscrapers to this new mammoth structure. And Jason... continue reading on Gothamist

Surveillance video from Beauty Supply Warehouse in Denver via CNN Federal prosecutors are now suggesting that the beauty-supply bomb plot in which Najibullah Zazi has been implicated was supposed to take place on September 11, 2009. Federal attorney Tim Neff said in court today there was "a chilling, disturbing... continue reading on Gothamist

AP Photo/Tim Roske, File During State Senator Hiram Monserrate's assault trial, a nurse testified that his girlfriend Karla Giraldo begged that he not be allowed into the room where doctors were examining the cuts on her face, saying, "He's crazy! He's crazy!" And an ER doctor testified that Giraldo... continue reading on Gothamist

Eric Spiegelman put together this amazing stream of 130 photos of Obama posing with dignitaries during this week's U.N. meetings (long video after the jump). And Obama's smile never changes. Of course you may suspect some Photoshopping, but Spiegelman defends himself by directing us to the State Department's flickr... continue reading on Gothamist