Photograph of mariachi band at Lorimer St. by daniel.gene on flickr Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a person under a train at Jamaica Ave. and 95th St. in Queens, a severed limb at Blake Ave. in Brooklyn, and a child struck at 39th St. and 3rd Ave. in Brooklyn. "Prepare to be swabbed citizen." New York takes steps forward to our Gattaca-like future. A man described as being 6'1" and 300 lbs. was spotted......

We got mixed reviews in our poll about the Sex and the City movie that's coming out more than three years after the show ended its HBO series. Whether we wanted it or not, the movie is going to happen -- and film crews and cast have already arrived. Where are they filming? The Daily News reports that, toting around a bag only Carrie Bradshaw could pull off (one shaped like the Eiffel Tower), Sarah......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a police-involved shooting at 149th St. and 3rd Ave. in the Bronx, an attempted sexual assault on 55th St. in Brooklyn, and a bank robbery on West 52nd St. between 7th and 8th Aves. Kenneth Eng, noted earlier this year for his controversial essay "Why I Hate Blacks", was arrested again by the Feds shortly after pleading guilty to harrassing his neighbors and threatening them with a hammer. The......

This might be the first time a British actor has played a Law & Order regular: Linus Roache will be playing the new Executive District Attorney. (Sam Waterston's Jack McCoy is getting a promotion to DA, since Fred Thompson has left the show to pursue a presidential campaign.) We foresee sexual tension between his character and Alana de la Garza's Connie Rubirosa! Is it a coincidence that Roache is the second star from short-lived NBC......

Back in May we asked what you thought of a Sex and the City movie, 51% of you thought it was coming three years too late. Whether we like it or not, the movie is going to happen - after Kim Cattrall finally signed on. Word is that she wanted a higher salary and a deal for a future HBO show, both of which she got. Guess her post-Samantha days haven't been filled with great......

Tonight's episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent features its ripped-from-the-headlinse take on the Anna Nicole Smith soap opera. Playing a blond bombshell named Lorelei Mailer is Kristy Swanson, best known as the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer; playing her manager/boyfriend is David Cross (!). TV Guide interviewed Swanson:TV Guide: How did this Criminal Intent job come about? Swanson: Law & Order called my agent and said that they're doing the Anna Nicole Smith story.......

Today on Gothamist Newsmap: A ceiling collapse at Bowling Green/Battery Park on the subway's 4 line this morning, a bank robbery at 206th St. and Bainbridge Ave. in the Bronx, and a report of a missing child at Franklin Ave. in Brooklyn. Imminent end of an era as the actual physical floor of the NYSE gets quieter daily. Original "Buffy" Kristy Swanson to appear on L&O as Anna Nic a drug-addled blonde bombshell with......

West Chelsea can do no right, as now Miss USA Tara Conner is getting raked over the coals over her partying. Yesterday, TMZ reported pageant officials and NBC met to discuss Conner's status as Miss USA, given "alleged incidents of her inappropriate behavior, including her conduct at New York City bars." And by inappropriate, they mean underaging drinking at clubs downtown, alleged substance abuse, and missing Miss USA appearances, as Conner is only 20 years......

The Daily News has a feature on Chris Noth, who will forever be in Gothamist's heart as Detective Mike Logan, in spite of a magical though increasingly bloated stint as Mr. Big, the apple in Carrie Bradshaw's eye. It's all because he'll be back on Law & Order: Criminal Intent for a second season. Last season, Noth and Annabella Sciorra traded off episodes with Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe, but now Noth's new partner will......

It's pretty cute to know that Marc Anthony keeps his wedding pictures on his laptop! The NYPD's Major Case Squad just busted the guys who tried to extort Anthony and Jennifer Lopez for $1 million in return for Anthony's laptop and wedding video. Apparently ex-con Tito Moses and Steven Wortman got a hold of Anthony's goods and called Access Hollywood to sell them. The The Post reports that Access Hollywood contacted the Major Case Squad;......

NBC nearly blew our mind this morning when we headed to iTunes and noticed that a couple shows had episodes for download - including two seasons of Law & Order! It looks like NBC is dipping L&O's toes, with only the first (but great) season with Michael Moriarity, Richard Brooks, George Dzunda, and Chris Noth and the current season available for download. NBC, hurry up with the other seasons - we want our Jerry!......

Police are still looking for Peter Braunstein, the man suspected attacking a former co-worker in her Chelsea apartment as he disguised himself as a firefighter. Police continue to say that they believe Braunstein "is enjoying" the attention, but are concerned he may attack again. The Post reports that security at Fairchild Publications, where WWD, Details, Jane, W, and other pubs are headquarters and where he used to work, has been increased, with extra guards "at......

The MTA has asked Lockheed Martin to help install various security devices on its train and bus systems in a $200 million deal. The MTA weather criticism earlier this year when it was revealed it had only spent a tiny bit of the nearly $1 billion it said would be allocated towards security. Gothamist wonders what's more annoying - designing tanks for the feds or security systems for the city. We also think it's funny......

Gothamist thinks a lot about what Brooklyn still needs- a really great grocery store, better dry cleaners, a safer G train. But we never knew Williamsburg was craving a piano bar. The beautifully lit storefront bar comes from a longtime New Yorker and bartender Matt Webber (most recently of The Cutting Room). Because Webber isn't Chris Noth, he hasn't brought beautiful blondes behind the bar (yet) and is doing everything himself, from fresh juices to......

Yesterday, people from TV, film, and Broadway, as well as the public, gathered to pay tribute to the dearly missed Jerry Orbach. The attendees included Angela Lansbury, Al Pacino, Benjamin Bratt, Chris Noth, Jill Hennessy, Jane Alexander, Karen Ziemba, and Dick Wolf, plus many regular New Yorkers who cherished Orbach's contribution as an actor. Former Mayor David Dinkins was there, and Mayor Bloomberg spoke to the crowd, saying, "Briscoe exuded the life of the city......

While this graffiti stencil caught by callalillie captures the mystique of Detectives Goren and Eames of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, it turns out that there needs to be an addition. Chris Noth, aka Detective Mike Logan from Law & Order's first five seasons, will be a permanent cast member of Criminal Intent this fall. He and Vincent D'Onofrio will be splitting the episode load as lead detectives on the case (D'Onofrio has had......

There's a sweet article about the Lone Star Boat Club in Hell's Kitchen in the NY Times today. While there might not seem to be anything sweet about "Big H., Tony, Shimmy and Mickey [who] show up and trade their street clothes for T-shirts and shorts or towels around their waists" while they play pinochle and whose average age is 50, the sweet part is this was a hangout of Jerry Orbach - he was......

- Making cupcakes that look like pandas, koalas and bears - Finding out what other species there are after hipsters: Robert Lanham's Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees and Other Creatures... - An interview with comedian Dave Gorman - NYC Transit Authority wants a ban on subway photography - The hot concerts in the city this season - Partying with Penthouse Pets - 2nd Avenue Deli provides alibi for unjustly arrested man during the Republican Convention......

NBC has announced that Chris Noth will be on Law & Order: Criminal Intent this January, reprising his role as Mike Logan. The last we saw Detective Mike Logan, he was investigating a murder in Staten Island that led him back to the 2-7 and Profaci, in the 1998 TV movie, Exiled, which is the only Law & Order movie to date; plus, there was Nicole Ari Parker as the murder victim's twin sister and......

With the end of Sex and the City tonight, we can welcome the end of thousands of articles spectulating what kind of impact the show had on our lives (Men will drink pink drinks!) and fashion and New York. Don't get us wrong - Gothamist has enjoyed Sex and the City ever since the first time we saw the bus splash Sarah Jessica Parker in her crazy pink outfit during the opening credits. But we......

It's good to know that Winona Ryder is basically like the Welcome Wagon for any semi-cute up-and-coming would-be rocker - at least someone is looking out for the lads. That's why she was the focus of a VH1 All Access:Winona Rules! Truly, it makes sense for Winona to be featured, because as Courtney Love says, as quoted on the show's site, "You’re no one in music until you have feuded with me or until you......

For once, Gothamist might be saying there's too much information. It was bad enough knowing Ron Livingston had only signed on for eight episodes (so far?) for Sex and the City before the season even started, meaning Jack Berger is probably not anything too permanent. It's just that there's something wonderfully (relatively) sane and normal about Berger that's even more of a fantasy than Chris Noth's Big, who, by recent Gawker accounts, is looking really......

How could people think that a cable movie version of Caesar would be a good idea? Just looking at photos of Chris Noth as Pompey in TNT's Caesar makes Gothamist seriously rethink the idea of a Roman Empire. And Jeremy Sisto, is he the new go-to man for TV and cable biopics about leaders many millennia ago? Tom Shales describes Chris Noth as looking "like a cross between Dean Martin and Sylvester Stallone, both drunk."......

Hipsters and indie rock fans (Gothamist is not sure if these are the same people; working on the Venn diagram), rejoice: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart is on DVD today. The Sam Jones directed documentary of Wilco recording Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was critically well-received. But of course, you hipsters and indie rock fans don't care and already know the documentary is good. Updated: Last summer in the Observer, Lynn Harris brilliantly dissected how......