The engines fueling Jane Jacobs' legacy are at full throttle, with the Municipal Art Society's new exhibition, titled "Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York." The show, opening this week at the Urban Center Galleries, delves into how today's (and tomorrow's) city fits into Jacobs' ideas and also examines how the public can draw on her values, given the major developments and rezoning now in progress. In case you've been sleeping for the past......

Coney Island may be changing a lot after its last summer with Astroland scheduled to close and redevelopment of the area, but the people over at the Coney Island History Project are doing their best to preserve memories of the old Coney Island. This season, the project inaugurates a permanent home, which is fittingly under the Cyclone. The Times reports that the space had many previous forms: a souvenir stand, a hot dog stand,......

Not that anyone should ever need an additional good reason to visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located on 5th Ave. and edging into Central Park, but The Met is opening 30,000 square feet of new exhibition space in 11 new galleries. The space will be used to expand the museum's display of Greek and Roman antiquities. The New York Sun described that the "new series of 11 exhibition spaces continues the sequence of eight......

MUSIC: If you aren't going to a 06.06.06 party tonight, and if we are in fact all here and the apocolypse hasn't happened...we suggest getting over to the Delancey. Why? Because it's the first Beg Yr Pardon party and there will be free red velvet cupcakes and brownies! There will also be all you can eat BBQ if you're into that sort of thing (for an extra $5). Oh, and music! There is also music.......

Whoa-- apparently the prolific and insanely talented NYC street artist Swoon has three pieces up at the Museum of Modern Art! Wooster Collective alerted us to the "Printmaking Now" show, which runs until September 18th: Oversized cut-out figurative prints by Swoon (American, b. 1977) appear on three walls of the Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries. Printmaking is essential to Swoon's practice: the linoleum cut and woodcut techniques provide the bold lines......

- Emilie Muse, one of the great adventurous gals of the 20's and 30's died last month. ">She was 98. - The Bronx Tale actor involved in that cop shooting wants to make a movie about it. - Project Runway fan? Meet Nick's ">blog. - Two off-duty city firefighters were busted yesterday in two separate bar fights. - That ATM shark who got busted last week? Yeah, he was pulling in 32K a week.......

Imagine Manhattan streets with less cars, buses and exhaust and catered more towards pedestrians. It sure would have made walking around during the transit strike a bit nicer. Tonight Livable Streets: A New Vision For New York opens. The exhibit aims to explore new concepts for our city streets, such as turning them in to pedestrian-friendly public spaces. On display at the Urban Center, the exhibit launches the New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign —......

Welcome to 2006! What's coming up in events around the city...sex, drugs, and rock & roll. And also some art and design (all downtown, of course). Some things never change, even with the passing of a year. First up, Parsons presents the first exhibition to explore one of the most avant-garde periods in 20th-century American Design, titled Anarchy to Affluence: Design in New York, 1974 -1984. The exhibit aims to examine important interior, furniture, fashion,......

This weekend it's going to be cold. Again. But don't stay inside sitting on your radiators just because it's snowing, head out there and warm up in theaters! Galleries! And bars! (Oh my!) Here are some suggestions. MUSIC: Tonight in Brooklyn the Village Voice proclaimed "Best Thrower Of No-BS Far-Flung Indie Rock Shows", Todd P, will be throwing a party for Deli Magazine. Described as an intriguing, multifaceted, impossible to ignore succession of inspired semi-maniacs......

2 weeks ago the Andy Warhol "Summer Shadows" show opened at the Woodward Gallery. It runs through July 31st. Gothamist loves Warhol, yet has never seen this type of work from him...so we'll be heading over to the exhibit asap! Needing a quick tutorial ourselves, here is what we learned about the Summer Shadows series. While starting out his career trying to stray from abstract art, Warhol actually ended his career submerging himself in it. In......

Gothamist was there for the Death of the Q Diamond Party, celebrating the elimination of the Q Diamond from the NYC subway map. As the last train pulled into the station, it was mayhem at the back of the Union Square platform. Positioning ourselves in back of an attractive photographer from the New York Times, we managed to squeeze into the last car of the train before the doors closed. For the next thirty......

A sad day for the arts: Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld Dies at 99. A lot of us are familiar with his drawings in The New York Times Sunday Arts & Leisure section, and looking for the Ninas. His beautiful fluid drawings (it's too limiting to call them caricatures) captured various artists with more dynamism than photographs. Look at his work at The Margo Feiden Galleries. Rent the 1996 documentary about him The Line King. The Times......