Controversial publisher Judith Regan dropped a 70-page lawsuit on her old bosses at Harper Collins and News Corp yesterday. The $100 million defamation suit claims she was the victim of a smear campaign in order to protect Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid (read: Rupert Murdoch's political agenda). She states they asked her to lie to federal investigators about her one-time lover and former police commish, Bernard Kerik (who at the time was working with Regan on......

Former police commissioner Bernard Kerik's misdeeds continue to plague Rudy Giuliani's Presidential ambitions, with news that the former Mayor knew that his one-time right hand man vouched for a mobbed-up construction company before appointing him police commissioner. Before Kerik was appointed commissioner, one of Giuliani's top aides was made aware of the fact that Kerik––while commissioner of the Corrections Dept.––met with mayoral aides in a Tribeca bar and defended Interstate Industrial Corp. of criminal wrongdoing,......

This morning at the Gothamist mailbox, a small package was waiting, containing three copies of a small newspaper. On the cover were the words "if we did it, this is how it would've happened" -- a tribute to the recent unpublished OJ Simpson book-- and a picture of a defaced Shepard Fairey piece in Williamsburg. Inside the newspaper we found 14 pages of total insanity-- part revolutionary tract, part interview, part photo essay, part......

Our acquaintances over at The Morning News have developed the city's most hilarious holiday t-shirt: "The Squirrel That Ate Christmas". Buy one today! Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: many suspicious packages all over town, a motorcycle accident on East 47th Street, and a jumper down on East 20th Street. We're not sure what's happening in this photo, but it may well be the cutest thing we've ever posted to Gothamist. AMNY has a great......

The Boym brothers Buildings of Disaster collection is for sale at Moss. Made of bonded nickel, these miniatures of these seminal locations of tragedy are spooky, haunting, strange, and almost quaint. About the buildings: The images of burning or exploded buildings make a different, populist history of architecture, one based on emotional involvement rather than scholarly appreciation. In a media-saturated time, world disasters stand as people’s measure of history, and the sites of tragic......