Over the past few days the storm off the coast has been the Fugazi of weather systems. It's been doing its own thing, shooting spokes of clouds and rain over New York and New England, completely...

With autumn in full swing and the weather continuing to cool, it’s easy to forget just how scorching and unbearably hot this last summer was at times. Between Starbucks’ quickly rescinded free drink offer and the multiple...

NY1 seems to have taken Labor Day off when it comes to today's weather. Ah, well, Gothamist will try to fill-in some of the blanks. Today will be a slightly warmer version of yesterday. In other...

If there's a heat wave, it seems that is takes weeks to figure out who has died from it, as the city has raised the number of heat wave-related deaths to 36. Three more deaths caused by...

The regulatory agency that oversees utilities in NY State, the Public Service Commission has been holding holding public hearings about the Queens blackout. The only thing is that the meetings have drawn very few attendees - those...

With the weather as perfect as it was last night, it’s pretty easy to forget about the excessive heat and humidity that consumed the country last week. But as the city’s medical examiners continue to perform autopsies...

As we appreciate the fact that last week's heat wave was last week, the NY Times' Sewell Chan has an article about that the little-known fact that turned-off appliances that are still plugged-in still draw electricity. We...

Remember yesterday when we thought the body-count for last weeks heat wave was at 10-13 people? Yeah, scratch that. Coroners for the City are now upping that number by ten to 20-23 deaths. The three-body spread...

Well, the heat wave is past, the dead are being counted, and so it is now time for the city's papers to fill up their first-Saturday-in-August issues with newsprint on the aftermath and what could've gone...

With the recent heat wave broken the city has now begun the unenviable task of counting bodies. And the news isn't so swell: As many as 13 New Yorkers may have had their lives cut short...

Yesterday was the third day of the August heat wave, but the sprinkling of rain in the early evening and cooler weather today and the weekend should hopefully bring relief to us all. And it looks...

With the mercury rising to high for the city's liking, Mayor Bloomberg held a press conference at the Office of Emergency Operations in Brooklyn to emphasize what the city is doing during the heat wave. We suspect...

It's pretty hot out there, eh? Actually, in Brooklyn it isn't too bad right now. At least if you can catch a breeze in the shade. Which is our way of leading into the sort of...

- After another night with finicky to no power, the lights on Staten Island seem to be back on, but with this new heat wave the question is "for how long?" - One way to pitch...

A very interesting NY Sun story about the future of the "Honest Boy" fruit stand at the southeast corner of Broadway and Houston. Many people, including Gothamist, love the stand for fresh fruit at all times ($2...

Now that our mini-heat wave is over, tropical storm Beryl is making her presence felt. Sort of. Places along the shore from Brooklyn to Montauk may see some showers, possibly with intense rain, starting this morning. Beryl...

Even blogging has become unbearable in this weather thanks to the insane (and baffling) amount of heat coming out of our new goddamn laptop. In addition to some less often encountered consequences of scalding temperatures, Gothamist wants...

Fascinating fact: Although it may not have felt like it, the last nine days have been more than a degree below normal. Fascinating prediction: perception and reality are going to be in synch for the next week...

There's a slow-motion battle of the blobs shaping up in the atmosphere above the eastern U.S. this week. So far this summer our weather has been dominated by the Beast of the East otherwise known as the...

An extreme and inexplicable heat wave hit the Upper West Side yesterday afternoon. Gothamist noticed it was getting very warm as we walked uptown from Lincoln Center. Stopping to take off our coat we spied the thermometer...

While the crime and murder rates are down, the numbers of shootings in the city is up versus last year. Newsday's article proposes a few theories: (1) Less police visibility on the street, perhaps due to the...

Tate's Bake Shop Cookbook: The Best Recipes from Southampton's Favorite Bakery for Home-Style Cookies, Cakes, Pies, Muffins, and Breads by Kathleen King (St. Martin's Press, 2005) As the heat wave has continued on with but a brief...

Zarela's Veracruz: Mexico's Simplest CuisineZarela's Veracruz: Mexico's Simplest Cuisine (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) With a heat wave like this, Gothamist could not bring ourselves to cook by any book this week--not in any way that involved a stove...

For all the city's many joys, there is still nothing more disgusting than New York during a heat wave. It's just something about the city's distinctive olfactory blend of rotting garbage, urine, and (if we're in the...

We've had a chance to listen to the band Audio Fiction recently and thought they'd be perfect to tell you about this week. Why? Because the RNC is in town, and this band is most likely...

Remember what the weather was like on Saturday and Sunday? Well, that's likely to be the weather through Wednesday. Warm, hazy and humid with a chance of afternoon and evening showers each day. The good news...

New York's Sea Ray have been around since the late nineties, becoming increasingly popular in recent years, finding success by complimenting layers of lush guitar with rich cello. This chamber-pop sextet have shared the stage with...