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• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a large tree down at Hope and Havermeyer Sts. in Brooklyn, a plane fire at Laguardia Airport in Queens, and a disorderly passenger on a plane at JFK Airport in Queens.
• Regular L Train service between Brooklyn and Manhattan is suspended on the weekends for the rest of the month. Shuttle buses are the next hip thing.
• The Feast of Giglio is an amazing sight, with a five ton, 80 foot tall tower carried by men around Williamsburg for hours.
• Anil Dash offers helpful tips to outsiders on how to visit NYC.
• Find a cooling center near you at nyc.gov. If you have an elderly or less tech-savvy neighbor, help them out and let them know where the nearest cooling center is in your neighborhood.
• A park advocacy group is seizing on yesterday's copter crash in the Hudson to urge the closing of the west side heliport.
• A Queens-bound train struck and killed a man at the Times Square station this afternoon.
• Officer Russell Timoshenko, the police officer who was shot twice at close range during a traffic stop early this morning, died sometime this afternoon is still in critical condition (we apologize for incorrectly saying that he had died; some reports said he had passed away).

Wednesday night, WNBC invited a bunch of bloggers to its first NYC Blogger Summit. Why? As Anil Dash put it, to "engage bloggers and encourage them to provide information and resources to the station's news-gathering efforts, in exchange for credit and exposure."

A few weeks ago, the NY Times Magazine ran a great excerpt of Steven Berlin Johnson's new book, Everything Bad is Good For You, which proposes that society has not been dumbed down by TV recently; in fact, if anything, TV watchers have become more skilled at juggling multiple storylines and ideas while watching shows like The Sopranos, Lost, Alias, E.R. or Twin Peaks, offering up the suggestion that a lot of TV drama has gotten better since the '70s and '80s. Of course, this was instantly intriguing and inspiring to Gothamist, as it reaffirms our position that our TV is one of our bestest friends (even if there's an implication that Law & Order's single narrative isn't brain-exercising - we happen to be wondering where an exterior was shot or which headline it's ripped from!). Personally, we think there needs to be a balance of complicated (most anything on HBO) storytelling along with simple (most any sitcom, as 30 minutes leaves you little time, Arrested Development not withstanding) or else our brain will explode and then how will we watch the next Will Ferrell movie? Read the article yourself here, and let us know what your favorite complicated shows are as well as the fluffy ones (high on our list: Anything on the Learning Channel!).

What Gothamist can't understand is why Six Apart doesn't have an office in NYC, which is quickly becoming the center of the blog world. For godsakes, there are rumors Jason Calacanis is moving back to town, Lockhart Steele is launching his super-secret Curbed blog on Monday, and Nick Denton has bought real estate here! With juice like that, the Big Apple deserves some more attention from the blog companies. When was the last time you saw someone from Blogger or MT eating at Gray's Papaya or passing out fliers you throw to the sidewalk immediately after getting them? Never! And we haven't seen Biz Stone at the McDonalds on West 4th in like four years! They are all over there in San Francisco, drinking their chai lattes and laughing at us.

Gothamist also would like to thank: Jason Calacanis, Nick Denton, and Jeff Jarvis for a spirited (though less punchy than wished for, to be honest) discussion about the future of publishing blogs; Anil Dash, Paul Ford, and Meg Hourihan for enlightening us about what goes into designing blog publishing tools (less nerdy than it sounds, for those who missed it); and Felix Salmon, Lockhart Steele, and Choire Sicha ( and Jen) for being good punchlines. Yay!

Various personalities of the blogging world will collide at the NY Bloggers talk at the SoHo Apple Store this Monday, May 3. See Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis moderate/referee a discussion with web publishers Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis. ftrain's Paul Ford chats with Meg Hourihan, Anil Dash, and Jason Kottke about technology. And Felix Salmon will find out what kinds of medication Choire Sicha, Lockhart Steele, and Jen Chung must be on during the editors panel. Plus, Jake will be running around as the water boy. We can also promise question-and-answer time as well as some surprises. All in all, a great opportunity to see the bloggers you love (to hate?). Be there to be square.

While we're enjoying the West Village series of photographs at Bluejake (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, snowy Day 5), Gothamist is just counting down to when Jason and Meg file a restraining order against Jake. Others who should be warned if they see a dude with a camera hanging out too long across the street: Nick Denton, Anil Dash, Aaron and Mena Trott.

New York magazine threatens to go into Internet overload. Not only does Simon Dumenco mention six of the "most compelling" bloggers (Choire Sicha for Gawker, Maud Newton, Anil Dash, Nick Denton as blog impressario of the Gawker/Gizmodo/Fleshbot/Kinja empire, Jeff Jarvis, and Elizabeth Spiers for The Kicker; Dumenco says he expects "to be blogged to death" for his choices and the first shot comes from Gawker, which Gawker calls the piece a slobbery blowjob, though it was our understanding better slobbery than none, no?), Deborah Schoeneman exposes Weddingchannel.com as prime ex stalking ground AND gives Nicole "daughter of Lionel; friend of Paris" Ritchie's AIM screenname. Which makes us wonder if there is a black market for celebrities' AIM screennames. Next: Reality IM Conversations as the new reality trend that sucks even more mystique out of celebrities ("whatcha doin?" "press junket but i don't want to" "ic")!

According to the Times, the college graduating Class of 2003 is complaining about the lack of jobs available these days. Well, Gothamist is sure the Class of 1992 or 1993 has some advice for you.

I keep telling Jen that we need to do posts with more nudity- posting about Anil Dash and Pete Rojas can only boost traffic so much. With that thought in mind, I knew I had to post about the decision in the naked mermaid case. It seems that at last year's Coney Island Mermaid Parade, 31 year-old Brooklyn resident Amy Gunderson was arrested for going topless. Arresting a naked mermaid at the mermaid parade is like arresting a fish for swimming, so Amy did what any arrested naked mermaid would do and called Ron Kuby, Gothamist's favorite seedy celebrity leftist lawyer (and former partner of Bill Kunstler). He got the city to back down and give her 10k, which is more that Gothamist got the last time we went naked in the name of art. I couldn't find any naked pictures of Gunderson, but some good mermaid shots can be found here and here and here. My personal favorite (via nosebleed.com):

601am tells us that Anil Dash is the new VP of Business Development at Movable Type. Here's MT's news release about the hiring, but 601am's thoughts on how Anil would affect MT are way funnier, in Gothamist's opinion.

Anil Dash is at the Voice on the Net conference right now, where he's giving the Introduction to Blogging panel. Gothamist remembers when Gothamist mother, Lena, would go to VON and bring back various VON swag, mostly stuff with Pulver.com on it.