The Battleship Potemkin, by dietrich at flickrToday on the Gothamist Newsmap: a construction accident on East 33rd St. and Madison Ave. in Manhattan, a pedestrian struck on 50th Ave. and 45th St. in Queens, and a shooting on Schenectady Ave. and Lincoln Pl. in Brooklyn. In three separate incidents yesterday, individuals were struck by subway trains. Two men were killed and the third was taken to Bellevue Hospital. Insurance fraud isn't brain surgery, until......

A Long Island woman is suing a medical lab in Rye Brook after her tissue sample was mislabeled, she mistakenly diagnosed with cancer and had a double mastectomy on her healthy breasts. Darrie Eason tells after she was told, post-mastectomy, that she never had cancer, Newsday, "I didn't know what to believe. They told me I had cancer and now they're telling me I didn't. I didn't know if the next day they were going......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting at 178th Pl. in Queens, a bank robbery at White Plains Rd. in the Bronx, and a homicide on West 157th St. and Broadway in Manhattan, and a water rescue off 88th St. near Gracie Mansion.. The suspected killer of FDNY Chief Ray Downey's nephew, who was tracked to California, killed himself yesterday when cornered by cops. East River State Park opened today. Be one of the......

A Long Island couple is suing a Manhattan fertility clinic for using the wrong sperm during in-vitro fertilization. Nancy and Thomas Andrews were having trouble conceiving a second child, so they went to the New York Medical Services for Reproductive Medicine to have Nancy's eggs fertilized with Thomas's sperm. But when baby Jessica was born in 2004 to the couple, they suspected something was wrong. From the Daily News:Thomas Andrews is white and his wife......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: manhole fire with victims in Sunset Park, large crowd in Chelsea, and four people stabbed in Harlem. A Long Island Miracle: "A cab hit some ice on the Long Island Expressway Saturday morning, flew over a guardrail, flipped over, dropped 30 feet to the highway below -- and landed upright. The driver and the passenger weren't seriously hurt." The 239-foot Airbus super jet - Lufthansa Flight 8940 from Frankfurt......

This morning, Governor Eliot Spitzer met with the families of victims from Wednesday's fire that killed ten people - nine children and one adult. Yesterday, 6-year-old Hassing Soumare, Mamadou Soumare's daughter and his last surviving relative after his three other children died with their mother, died from her injuries. He and his cousin Moussa Magassa, who owned the four-story building where the fire occured, prepared for funerals with other family members and friends. Magassa......

A Long Island Railroad train is stuck in an East River Tunnel, causing 30 minute delays in and out of Penn Station. The MTA says, "Please be advised that, as a measure of crowd control, the LIRR concourse at penn Station is temporarily not accessible via the 34th Street entrance. Customers are advised to use the LIRR entrance on 7th Avenue as an alternative." Yikes - good luck, LIRR commuters. And we're hearing that some......

- 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 in to prevent another round of massive power-outages is to try really hard to use as little power as possible: Turn off your AC and electronics when not at home, keep your thermostats no lower then 78, keep......

Sometimes Gothamist thinks that more people than we suspect secretly hide issues of Cat Fancy in between Time Out and The New Yorker when not obsessing over their cats. We like to keep track of stories like the ones below to help build our case: - A Long Island (okay, not strictly NY - but the story is good) neighborhood was filled with police officers, search dogs, and police helicoptor looking for an African serval......