subway love, by presley at flickr Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a truck into scaffolding on West 39th St. and Broadway in Manhattan, a bank robbery at the HSBC branch on 33rd St. and Park Ave. in Manhattan, and a double shooting on East 57th St. and Ave. D in Brooklyn. The $8 million Jean-Michel Basquiat painting "Hannibal", which was smuggled out of Brazil, was located at a Manhattan warehouse on 61st St. and......

The WNBC.com headline says it all: "Man Critical After Being Suspended From Ceiling At S&M Club." And before he was taken to St. Vincent's, he was found "bound and suspended from a ceiling while wearing women's high heels and a neck choker." The Post now says he may have suffered brain damage due to the lack of oxygen! The incident occurred at East 33rd domination club Nutcracker Suite/ Hmm, could it have been in the......

Today the alternative weekly New York Press announced the resignation of their new sex columnist, Claudia Lonow, after her debut column – and the cover story, no less – was found to have used some questions from old Dan Savage advice columns. The answers were her own, but, as Jezebel discovered, not questions like the one seeking advice about [paraphrasing] ‘what to do when you walk in on your girlfriend canoodling with her noticeably......

Let's look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa... -Austinist reveled in the dumb antics of some U.T. law students and posted some great audio from former New Orleans natives who've decided to stay in Austin. But the best news for Austinist? They were voted Best Local Entertainment Web Site by the local Austin alt-weekly. Congrats, Austinist. -DCist gloried in being told their musical tastes made......

Ask Gothamist fields a variety of questions each week, tackling issues involving pets, neighbors, curiosity about New York City, etiquette, guilt, careers, and love -- just to name a few of the questions we've gotten recently. Got a burning question? E-mail ask@gothamist.com. What are other advice columnists up to lately? Dear Prudence - Slate's advice columnist (and daughter of the late Ann Landers) doles out advice about sex, sex, sex, and in-laws. Dear Abby- Good......

People, don't worry about Paris Hilton, this is how she wanted things. Or that's what the Daily News believes, based on the "expert opinion" of various people, like psychologists, sex therapists, professors, and Dan Savage. Headlines: – Narcissism; Stanley Teitelbaum, psychologist, "A lot of times people are so into themselves, they want to have a visual recording of what they're doing. They want to bask in the glow of what was going on." – Excitement;......