In 1656, Peter Stuyvesant proposed the creation of a public market for the city. As New York has changed, several marketplaces have existed, each creating a community hub as well as access to fresh food. Establishing a permanent home for a new market with breads, handmade cheeses, locally grown produce, fish, and meat is the goal of Robert LaValva and Jill Slater, the founders of New Amsterdam Public. LaValva and Slater seek to revitalize a......

As New York state and city politicians attack the Department of Homeland Security over cutting the funds NYC gets for anti-terrorism efforts, the DHS has been fighting back by saying that New York City's proposal wasn't well-prepared. The NY Times writes, "Federal officials said yesterday that the city had not only done a poor job of articulating its needs in its application, but had also mishandled the application itself, failing to file it electronically......

The word of the day: Contingency! As New York City approaches the zero hour for the MTA and the Transit Workers Union's current contract to expire (midnight), all New Yorkers want to do is contemplate what a Friday the Striketeenth would imply. Though the city released its 1980 transit-strike-inspired contingency plan yesterday, everyone is hoping that another last-minute agreement can be made, a la 2002. Last night, as we were reading tomorrow/today's NY Times transit......

NY Jets, you're totally confusing Gothamist. The Jets President, Jay Cross, was speaking at a sport conference at the Waldorf yesterday. He fumed about the way NY wheels and deals, compared to Toronto and Miami, where he's built other stadiums. The NY Post notes his words:"New York is a nasty place. People do business in hard ways...Toronto is a city of good government and clean streets and a lot of process. Miami is a city......

During the morning rush, no one likes to deal with inconsiderate people who put their belongings on subway seats. But if one combines that annoyance with a rainy day, the result, as Heaneyland points out, is the perfect storm of subway pet peeves: people who put wet belongings on subway seats. As New York settles in to a season of rain and snow, your friendly neighborhood Ask Gothamist would like to ammend the list......

Timing is everything. As New York City will be celebrating 100 years of our beloved subway system, the MTA is New York Region > In New York Transit Crisis, a Cash Bind Many Foresaw" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/nyregion/25transit.html?ex=1256356800&en=e8688d7a3d7a3062&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland">talking about its budget crisis - one that involves figures like "Budget deficit of $1 billion each year" and "$20 billion of debt by 2008." It's so bad that five subway watchdogs/economic analysts ( Jon Orcutt, executive director of the Tri-State......

- The Post is the official paper of the subway's centennial. Which means readers will get the inside scoop on various events and promotions, and the Post will sponsor nostalgia train rides, tours, and other events the MTA plans. Editor-in-Chief Col Allan says, "As New York's favorite commuter paper, we're thrilled to be the official newspaper of the subway centennial." That is so true - Gothamist sees more copies of the Post thrown on the......

Photograph of ferry in motion (15 second exposure) by Robert Sterling of Boro6. As New York returns to normal, the blackout analysis will continue for a while (probably a brief break around the anniversary of September 11). The Times, Post, Daily News, and Newsday have extensive blackout coverage. Here are some notable articles: - The first of many cost analyses of what damage the blackout did to the city. - How the blackout affected......