NYC has agreed to lower the water levels in some of its reservoirs that supply the city with its drinking water. The move came after pressure from Ed Rendell, the Gov. of Pennsylvania, who argued for reduced reservoir capacity to spare citizens of his state from the regular spring flooding along the Delaware River that results from New York keeping its reservoirs filled to the brim. When spring storms exceed the already-full reservoirs' ability to......

August 5: A Walking Chocolate Tour of New York This Saturday and every Saturday at 1:00 pm, Chocolate Zoom presents a chocolaty view of our fair city. The first leg of the tour starts off in Soho, where you will get a chance to sample treats from Mariebelle, Vosges, and Kee’s Chocolates. Next, a quick jaunt uptown for five more chocolatiers. More details provided at the Chocolate Zoom website. $50.00 per person (adult or child).......

Here's a geeky weather factoid Gothamist dug up this morning: Through the first 16 days of March we have had 9 days of colder than normal temperatures, 6 days above normal, and one day, yesterday, of normal temperature. With half again as many cold days as warm you would expect the average temperature to be below normal, but the warm days were so above average that March is way warmer than normal. If that average......

Even thought Gothamist would have loved for the beluga whale that accidentally ended up in the Delaware River to somehow find its way to the Hudson, we totally understand that it needs to somehow get back into the ocean. Still, Gothamist giggled when some people speculated that the whale got there because it was following some herring and we think it's funny (and important) that the police are telling people not to approach it. Police......