Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a staircase collapse on Pennsylvania Ave. in Brooklyn, an unusual escort on Van Wyck and Atlantic Aves. in Queens, and a person fatally struck by a train at 170th St. and Jerome Ave. in the Bronx. 2007 marks the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64 PC. The computer, which attached the primary system with the monitor and the keyboard, had a whopping 64K of memory. 17 million were sold.......

Perhaps it was the near-freezing temperatures at yesterday's Jets-Browns game that kept breasts covered, but that weather didn't stop crowds from flocking to Gate D at Giants Stadium for a halftime ritual - men yelling at women to expose their breasts and throwing bottles or spitting at them if they don't. Despite an attempt to shut down rowdy fan behavior at Gate D, things didn't seem to change that much at all since new procedures......

Looks like everything's bigger in the city, including your risk of getting breast cancer. After analyzing about 1,000 mammograms, researchers found that women who lived in the city of London had denser breasts than their suburban or rural compatriots. Their findings were presented at the Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago this week. Mammographers lump patients into four broad categories depending on how dense their breasts are: extremely dense, heterogeneously dense,......

D is for drunk and disorderly, not boobs and breasts. At least according to New Jersey State Senator Richard Codey. The Times first reported yesterday on the halftime events at Gate D at Giants Stadium during Jets games. Hundreds of fans gather on the exit ramp, chanting at women and encouraging them to expose their breasts. If they don't lift their shirts, the women are met with boos and sometimes are spit at or have......

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......

A Legal Aid Society lawyer was arrested yesterday for allegedly planting a clock with a hidden surveillance camera inside it in a female co-worker's office. WNBC reports that 32-year-old Peter Barta's distaff co-workers told police detectives that they regularly used their offices to change into work clothes (like a suit for court) or for after-work activities. Barta had videotape in his home of one of his workers with her breasts and buttocks bared. In October......

Peter Braunstein, the journalist who disguised himself as a firefighter and then sexually assaulted a colleague while holding her captive for 12 hours, gives his first post-conviction, post-sentencing interview to WABC 7's Bill Ritter for Friday night's 20/20. WABC 7 offered this excerpt, which seems to have Braunstein explaining that he didn't intend to do anything criminal:Peter Braunstein: "I didn't really do anything in rape or murder her ... even the lowest form of criminal......

Upper East Side plastic surgeon Brad Jacobs is without a medical license, after the state health department charged him with a number of violations, including smoking crystal meth with a patient as well as placing implants that were too large into another. The Post's headline - "What a Boob!" - while the Daily News goes with "State calls him doctor demento." Jacobs, who has a practice on East 86th Street and told the Post last......

Chalk it up to the Wall Street Journal for making moles so interesting. The WSJ has an article about how a pioneering medical procedure and disturbing nude photos have rocked the world of dermatology. Bill Slue, an NYU Medical Center photographer who "devised a way to capture the whole body on film using 24 sectional photographs," which helps dermatologists monitor patients' moles. But now there's a dispute about whether he took photographs of female patients......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. If you’re stuck in the rut of picking up those shrink-wrapped packages of chicken breasts, then these hindquarters might just be your way out. Both Pathmark and the Met have a great deal on them this week, but it’s Key Foods that went one dime further. Now, you’re either white meat person or a dark meat person, and nothing......

Last week, it was announced that two emergency medical technicians had resigned because they had filmed patients on the job. The FDNY did not reveal what was on the tapes, only calling them "inappropriate," but now the Post has the details. - A shocking sequence in which a prostitute bares her breasts. - A nasty prank in which a medic taps a drunk on the shoulder before he tips over. - A mean-spirited verbal poke......

Chloroform. High-heeled shoes. A message written on the bathroom mirror. All these were things mentioned during the first day of Peter Braunstein's criminal trial, which proved graphic and upsetting. Braunstein's lawyers do not deny that the journalist attacked a former Women's Wear Daily co-worker in her apartment on October 31, 2005, by posing as a firefighter. But his defense team says that he's so mentally ill that his actions could not intentional and that Braunstein's......

Spring is when we get busy here in the Ist-A-Verse. Very busy. But, after staying bundled-up indoors all winter, it's nice for us to be out, about, and collecting things to write about for you. Here's a glimpse at what's been keeping your favorite citybloggers busily away from home and out of bed. For LAist, strong winds attacked LA on the same day the Feds raided the Crips. Not to fear, though: the Japanese version......

Clearly, Keith Richards telling NME that he snorted his dad's ashes is huge news, or the tabloids just didn't take to the story about an appeals court making an insurer pay for a boy's breast reduction surgery (the teen is "burdened with unusually large breasts for a boy"). Though it has the better headline, the Post disappoints us by not whipping up some Photoshop fun - like Keith snorting something out of a casket-shaped urn.......

Sure, sometimes you put up with your boss's quirks because he/she is, well, your boss. But when a boss pulls down a woman's blouse, that's a big problem. Three female employees at a city welfare office in the Bronx are suing their supervisor, Serena Reaves-Cain, for sexual harassment. According to the lawsuit, Reaves-Cain allegedly "held their hands, caressed the back of their hands, rubbed their shoulders and backs in a sexually suggestive manner" and "hugged......

A lawsuit claiming a hostile work environment at NY1 makes the station sound more like a frat house and not the scrappy channel New Yorkers know and love! The Post reports that Adele Sammarco claims she was fired after numerous complaints about being harassed. Here's a rundown:- Former reporter Jeff Simmons (now press secretary for William Thompson) "manipulated a picture of her by adding giant breasts, and the photo was then plastered all over the......

What people will do at sample sales! Sure, they'll stomp all over you or strip down to see if the clothes fit, but creating fake booty? Brilliant! Page Six has this hilarious item about shoplifters at an adam+eve sample sale. A customer noted that "four large women in trench coats" had been stealing some things, but when adam+eve designer Adam Lippes asked them to take off their coats, it got crazy.One woman tried distracting Lippes......

Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it. - From Mean Girls Unless it's October and you happen to be writing about it in the NY Times. There's the Styles section article about the increasingly provocative Halloween costumes for women today and Monday's Op-Ed piece by Allison Glock. The Styles section article talks to a couple professors, Halloween costume......

Name, age, occupation, where are you from and where do you live now. Jessica Lynn Johnson, Actress/Playwright, From St. Louis Missouri, lived in Astoria NY for a little over a year now. You're in "Oblivious To Everyone," a play at the upcoming Fringe Festival - can you tell us a little about the project? How did you come up with the idea? As a teenager, I was definitely a self-proclaimed smut-a-holic, tuning in to every......

The Post today has one of those great stories that isn't ever going to go anywhere but make fun reads anyway. How could you not be curious about a story involving the first openly gay Playboy Playmate, five leering police officers, a cabby imagining a gun and a dispute with the cabby over a $10.60 fare? And we haven't even gotten to the typically perfect Post hed - PLAYMATE: COPS BUNGLED MY BUST! The......

If you've ever wanted to see Britney Spears naked, now's your chance (at least until a tape of her having sex comes out) and all in the name of art. One minor detail, it's a sculpture and she's birthing. On the plus side, it's life size. The artwork is coming to Williamsburg for a two week show at Capla Kestin Fine Art. The piece, titled "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston," supposedly celebrates......

Brenda Staudenmaier, "The Lovely Brenda," Photographer and Mommy...

We're not normally into celebrities, but ever since her appearance at Times Square on New Year's, we can't get our mind off Mariah Carey and her rapidly ballooning weight. We were watching in high-definition, and it was impossible to look away-- every dent in her huge thighs and massive breasts was right there, in stunning detail. But hey-- lots of guys like a girl with a badonkadonk, a little junk in her trunk, a......

There are so many blogs out there these days-- but it's rare we come across of bloggeurs that aspire to a higher social purpose. Check out our new recent fave Holla Back: Holla Back NYC gives New Yorkers the right to Holla Back at street harassers. Whether you're commuting, lunching, partying, dancing, walking, chilling, drinking, or sunning, you have the right to feel safe, confident, and sexy, without being the object of some dickwad's fantasy.......

Animal Magazine's 6th Issue comes out this week-- and Bucky was nice enough to messenger us over a copy, since we unfortunately missed Animal's "Save Krucoff" themed party at BLVD on Wednesday night. The magazine is beatuiful and glossy and filled with pictures of scantily clad girls-- but we were interested in one feature in particular: a series of interviews with some of our NYC blog colleagues. Our favorite quotes: Joey Arak (Curbed): "People......

The spring auction weeks are a lot like a trip to Vegas. They both involve a lot of fake breasts and new money and when either one is finally over you find yourself left exhausted, hung over, and with the vague sense that you've just been made capitalism's bitch. We think one of our friends managed to encapsulate the big money art world's very essence when he saw an older bejeweled and botoxed lady sweep......

British Sea Power...

Gothamist hates the NY Post just a little more in our love-hate relationship with the dishy tabloid, because of this story:The demanding diva announced yesterday on live TV that she's willing to undergo elective surgery to have her breasts enlarged because her new husband, Al Reynolds, "cares about boobs." She wants, "a little lift, they're saggy," Jones told viewers on yesterday's edition of "The View."It's NOT news, unless the Post is trying to make sure......

A Manhattan judge ruled that an insurance company had to pay the $5,000 it cost to reduce an 18 year-old's breasts. The decision was made public yesterday, giving the Post and Daily News opportunity to look up "bilateral gynecomastia," the hormonal imbalance the boy suffered from. The judge wrote, "In order to avoid the great embarrassment and suffering he endured when ridiculed by his peers, [the teen] never swam, went to the beach or engaged......

Fashion week is in full swing in New York, celebrating the irritatingly recurring time of year that all of the self-congratulatory super-socialites take the opportunity to stop patting themselves on the back and pat each other for awhile.  Last night, Betsy Johnson took the opportunity to share the limelight with the Great-Uncle of Glam, John Cale, the founding member of the Velvet Underground, to celebrate the release of his new record, "HoboSapiens." For anybody mystified......