Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a homicide on Boyland St. in Brooklyn, a person under a train at 116th St. and Douglass Blvd. in Manhattan, and a body found on West 91st St. in Manhattan. Martha Stewart is still mad over the public spat she had with Donald Trump in 2005 over her The Apprentice spin-off series. We bet she prepares a wonderful cold revenge dish. Police are searching for a man who attacked......

Sean L. McCarthy has got it made. Blogger of comedy for The NY Daily News, New York's Funniest Reporter , and he spends his nights hanging out with some of the funniest people in the world. A truly enviable position! What's his secret? How did he get to where he is? Gothamist wanted to know and found out! You recently won the Funniest Reporter competition. How'd you prepare? The New York Underground Comedy Festival......

Bro, the Lower East Side has finally arrived! Know how we know? There’s totally a bangin’ new rodeo themed bar/restaurant with a mechanical bull!!! We’re going to be getting so much sweet action once the hotties see us taming that bad boy. Plus there’s like 16 killer beers on tap, chicken fried stake and pork chops! So untuck that striped shirt and ramble on down here, cowbro! Oh, and since the place still hasn’t settled......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A special delivery (as in a birth) on Hillside Avenue in Manhattan, a jumper down on Flatbush in Brooklyn, and a pursuit with injured officers at 106th St & Rockaway Blvd. in Queens. A Gambino crime family associate's son was working the elevator the day of the Deutsche Bank fire and helped save a woman right before the firefighters arrived. What will someone pay for signatures from people like......

While even Google can't help out with the subway perv problem, Subway Blogger reports that they are "getting geared up to start mapping New York City Transit systems. Ultimately, you’ll be able to map a transit or subway route just like Google Maps." Sure, there are resources like Hop Stop and OnNYTurf that may end up suffering (and Silicon Alley Insider points out their flaws), but this development was inevitable ever since Google launched their......

While poking around on YouTube recently we stumbled onto this awesome clip from 1989 of David Letterman appearing on Live at Five and Live at Five simultaneously appearing on Late Night With David Letterman. In it, we see Letterman, whose studio 6A is just across the hall from WNBC's Live at Five's studio 6B, being interviewed by Jack Cafferty (and vice versa) on the occasion of a prime time anniversary show. Late Night taped......

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

In advance of an official press conference at The Palace Theater today, The Times and The Post have reported that Spike Lee will be make his Broadway debut next spring with the 1951 play Stalag 17; a dramedy about camaraderie and betrayal between American airmen stuck in a German P.O.W camp (later made into a film by Billy Wilder.) Sources say that Clive Owen will once again be Spike’s inside man on the project. (Though......

Michael Riedel has double-the-entendre fun with his rumor-laced news that the London revival of Equus – yes, that Equus starring the Harry Potter kid naked as a jaybird – is going to Broadway! According to Riedel’s sources, “one problem, though, is the length.” Wait for it... Wait for it... “Of the play, people, the play!” But producers seem cocksure, despite a couple small problems regarding young Daniel Radcliffe: “Where he comes up short (at least......

New Yorkers wishing to buy a home, there's a sort of depressing NY Times about how January housing sales show a hot real estate market in the city in 2007. There are bidding wars, busy open houses, and Wall Street bonuses to contend with. And while there's "cautious exuberance" about a better real estate market for sellers and brokers in 2007, the Times reports "for January, at least, both prices and the number of signed......

A manager at Chelsea nightclub BED, who was involved in an incident where a club patron fatally fell down an elevator shaft, was released on bail yesterday. Granville Adams (left) had been charged with criminally negligent homicide, when he pushed Orlando Valle against closed elevator doors during a fight (the doors opened and Valle fell four stories), and his lawyers say that Adams was pushed so their client pushed back in self-defense. It's still unclear......

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." While hearing all of this was exciting and surreal and left some natural questions (see Modern Fabulousity), it was also nice to hear the word "credit" (see Gowanus Lounge) - lots of print......

The Observer has an article that, upon reading it, appears to have been written two years ago. "Blog Ghetto" scratches the surface of a scene that's been around for quite a while, and uncovers things such as: bloggers sometimes hang out with each other...and drink...at The Magician (and other "Hell Square" watering holes). The profile on the scene makes it seem very 90210-esque, even calling The Magician "Blogger High's Peach Pit" and picking out......

Special water theme today on the Gothamist Newsmap: DOA Floater on Staten Island, found human remains on Plumb Beach in Brooklyn, and a water rescue in the Hudson. Coliseum Books has closed for the last time-- a victim of the internet, Barnes & Noble, and rising real estate prices. Some "deranged" goths vandalized a church on East 76th Street twice in the last two days-- writing "Satan is God" and "Christ is a False......

-- If you like bagels and butt-holes, then this story is for you. Everyone else: look away! -- Curbed visits the disturbingly asymmetric New Museum development on Bowery-- when will buildings look normal again? -- Hilarious: One of Blogger's default templates makes the window at Saks 5th Avenue. -- Does "depraved indifference" homicide warrant 25 years to life? In this case, being totally drunk, driving your car on the wrong side of a highway......

Day 1 was long, but we managed to get a few hours of sleep and gear up for the rest of week. Last Thursday we started off our day at the South By Stereogum party. Brisket on white bread was served, Fat Tire beers were distributed and Aziz Ansari was hosting the show, which had a solid lineup: Aloha, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Rogue Wave and Ted Leo. Thunderbirds Are Now! [pictured]......

We received the following note from the lucite desk of Enrique Goldfarb (Northern New Jersey's #3 bar mitzvah entertainer): "After the celebrated success of the last show, Enrique Goldfarb has decided to grace the bohemian LES with another celebrated show curated by the folks behind the hit book Bar Mitzvah Disco." We always knew we were lucky to live in the big city, but on nights like tonight we can actually feel it, you know?......

Only thirteen shopping days until Christmas, but you don't have to get us a gift. The only thing Gothamist wants is more pictures of the Dyker Heights Christmas Lights, up on 84th Street in Brooklyn (between 12th and 13th Avenue)-- see the map at right. Blogger 423 Smith is up on the board first, with some wonderful shots from last week. Flickr is letting us down-- only a few paltry offerings on the "Dyker......

A few times a week, Gothamist publishes music reviews by our contributor Jeff Baum. The opinions below belong entirely to the author. Is it possible to write a review of the Arctic Monkeys right now without acknowledging their hype? For these kids, it has completely displaced any discussion on their music. Every review, interview or article not only hypes the band, but hypes the hype itself. Ask anybody who keeps up with the current music......

Forget about Bratz - photoblogger David Gallagher has found what should be what every young girl (or boy) should get this holiday season: The How to Be a Journalist kit, at KMart! The secrets of journalism are unlocked through the power of glitter, confetti flowers, lockable journal and an idea booklet. Yes! Screw the Nellie Bly approach - we truly will be breeding a future generation of Mo Dowds, Judith Millers, Mary Mapeses, and......

It's New York magazine's 2005 Salary Survey, and the lesson is clearly: The city is full of rich people who are not you. In our highly unscientific early-morning survey of a few pages of the survey, it seems that well over half of the incomes are over $1 million. According to the U.S. Census, only 3% of New York City households have an income of over $250,000. Overlaying that with the number of households in......

The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook: More Than 80 Recipes for Irresistible, Old-Fashioned Treats, by Jennifer Appel (Simon & Schuster, 2001) Gothamist's addiction to cupcakes has been well documented. At the risk of turning Gothamist into a cupcakes blog, along the lines of Slice, here's another entry devoted to Gothamist's favorite food. We were thrilled to pick up The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook for half price at the Strand, since we always visit Buttercup to pick......

Steven I. Weiss, Journalist/Blogger...

I'm trying to get a blog rolling to have an outlet for some of my nonwork writing, with an eye towards making it a portfolio of sorts that I can use to move toward magazine-style work in the future. Getting started seems a little daunting. A number of people have recommended TypePad to me as a solid platform for hosting, and Movable Type as a pretty intuitive publishing tool. I've got some knowledge of HTML......

A body was discovered near an empty lot on East 13th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. A homeless man was scavenging around and found a woman's body in a trunk yesterday afternoon. The Times spoke with a resident of the building next to the empty lot; the resident said he had seen a trunk on the sidewalk on Saturday night and found it unusual since it seem to be in good condition, versus the......

Yes, the blogosphere is built on mentioning other bloggers and giving them credit for slight, inconsequential things - blogfucking, we believe it's called. Still, we were surprised to see the New Yorker engaging in this kind of thing. In this week's issue, Daniel Radosh interviews ambitious ICM agent, Kate Lee, who he credits with "sifting through sloppy thinking, bad grammar, and blind self-indulgence for moments of actual good writing" when reading blogs [Disclosure: Gothamist met......

Anil Dash has left the building. His building in New York City, that is. According to his weblog, he's "moving to San Francisco", which in our experience is an expression that can mean many things - sex change, nervous breakdown, or gold rush. In his case, Anil claims to be moving there to be closer to the rest of the Six Apart team. As the public edition of MovableType 3.0 is soon to be released,......

Air's new album, Talkie Walkie, comes out tomorrow and it's beautiful and dreamy, like much. Produced by Nigel Godrich, best known for his work with Radiohead, Talkie Walkie is dreamy and romantic (perfect for relaxing to), much more similar to Moon Safari (listen to some songs here). The album also includes Alone in Kyoto, which they wrote for their friend Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation. Air will be in New York on April 13, at......

Last night's Big Apple Blogger Bash was great fun, in spite of AZ kicking us out and needing to relocate to Siberia. (Hey, AZ, you may have good food, but the service your bar and lounge gave us was abominable and know this: It doesn't help to turn away scores of people who like to detail the minutiae of their lives on websites.) We enjoyed meeting a lot of bloggers we've been reading but......

Gothamist will be stopping by the Big Apple Blogger Bash tonight, so we hope to see some of you over at AZ on West 17th tonight. Thanks to Paul Frankenstein who takes the time to organize these events.......