A close friend of Representative Vito Fossella says the troubled Congressman is far from thinking about resignation. Maybe! At first, former Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari told the Staten Island Advance Fossella "has every intention of running." But then Molinari withdrew the statement, amending it to, "I wouldn't be surprised if the ultimate decision is to run again." The Post notes how Fossella was allegedly surprised that other members of the House GOP might......

After his DWI arrest led to admitting an affair and a 3-year-old love child in Virginia, Representative Vito Fossella returned to Staten Island to rampant speculation of his imminent resignation. Not only has the media predicted a resignation could come soon, the Advance reports House GOP leader Rep. John Boehner and Republican National Campaign Committee head Rep. Tom Cole have contacted Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan to see if he's interested in the seat.......

Even though Representative Vito Fossella is apologetic and looking for forgiveness, there are still questions about the woman who picked Fossella up from the Alexandria, VA jail. Laura Fay is described as a 45-year-old retired Air Force colonel, who is a single mother with a young daughter. Susan Del Percio, Fossella's newly hired consultant to deal with his DWI crisis, told Staten Island Advance the congressman and Fay became friends when she was a House......

Representative Vito Fossella, who was arrested for a DWI outside of DC on Thursday, said, "This was an error in judgment. This mistake will not happen again." The Republican congressman held a press conference yesterday, to face the media and apologize again for his arrest. While he did not go into the details of his arrest, the Alexandria, VA arrest warrant indicated his blood alcohol was 0.17--twice the legal limit--and the police charged him with......

Vito Fossella, the lone Republican Congressional representative from New York City, was arrested early yesterday morning for driving while impaired outside of Washington, D.C. Fossella, whose activities leading up to the arrest are not known (his day events included the NY Giants' visit to the White House), issued this statement:"Last night I made an error in judgment. As a parent, I know that taking even one drink of alcohol before getting behind the wheel of......

State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell 4th, Democrat and son of the trailblazing Harlem politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., was arrested for drunk driving on the upper West Side at 2:30 a.m. this morning. According to the Daily News, an unidentified woman passed out in the back of the car was so intoxicated she had to be taken to a local hospital. Powell failed a breath test at the scene by a small margin and, while......

The mother of the NYPD police officer killed when her friend and fellow cop drunkenly crashed on a Long Island highway spoke of forgiveness of the sentencing of Danielle Baymack. Baymack, who had been charged with DWI and vehicular manslaughter for the 2006 incident, pleaded guilty in exchange for what Newsday calls a "lenient sentence" of six months in jail and five years probation. Baymack and Marlene Rivera had both worked at the 103rd Precinct......

The off-duty police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Bronx man earlier this year was indicted on manslaughter charges. The indictment will be unsealed today, and police officer Raphael Lora will be arraigned. Manslaughter has a maximum penalty of 25 years. On a May night, Lora ran outside of his home when a minivan, driving the wrong way on the street, crashed into a car on the street. Lora chased the minivan, which was......

A 66-year-old man driving a Nissan Maxima was fatally hit by a drunk driver on Woodhaven Boulevard, between 101st Avenue and 97th Avenue in Ozone Park. Twenty-five-year-old Christopher Rivera, driving a Honda Accord, crossed the road's median around 10:45PM and slammed into the Maxima driving in the opposite direction. The Maxima then hit a third car, a BMW. The Maxima's driver was pronounced dead at the scene, his passenger was injured, as well as Rivera......

On December 1, 2006 around 9:30PM, 22-year-old Eric Ng was biking north on bike path by the West Side Highway. Around the same time, 27-year-old Eugene Cidron, leaving a party at Chelsea Piers in his BMW, mistook the bike path for the actual highway, drove south on the bike path and fatally struck Ng near West Street - at least a mile from Chelsea Piers. Ng was hit so hard that his bicycle and shoe......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an unusual sexual assault on Broadway in Brooklyn, an unstable building on Sutphin Blvd. in Queens, and a shooting on West 142nd St. and Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattan. Central Park's Sheep Meadow was the first park location to upgrade its wifi Internet connection to high speed. The new 15-megabits-per-second service is five times faster than the previous connection. Madame Tussauds wax museum in Times Square wasted no time in......

A terrible drunk driving story from Long Island: Suffolk County police say that 26-year-old Louis Wiederer was trying to stop his drunk girlfriend from driving after a Saturday night block party. Newsday reports that a witness heard Wiederer say, "You're going to get arrested. You can't drive like that!" but 27-year-old Jesenia Vega ignored him, saying "Leave me alone!"With that, Vega, 27, of Carle Place, put her key in the ignition and drove off --......

It's a tabloid Saturday jackpot as a Los Angeles County judge sentenced "celebrity" Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail. Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer agreed with prosecutors who felt that Hilton's driving with a suspended license (she was busted for DUI on September 7, 2006, ordered to go to alcohol education this past February, and then was pulled over yet again in late February) deserved jail and sentenced the infamous sometimes New Yorker......

Early yesterday morning, the Q65 bus was hit by a Nissan Maxima whose driver ran a red light at Booth Memorial Avenue and 164th Street in Flushing. According to the MTA, the "Maxima was heading east on Booth Memorial Avenue and entered the intersection through a red light. The Maxima struck the left front corner of the bus." And from the looks of the pictures and TV footage, it was a crazy crash. The......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an overturned auto on Christopher and New Lots Aves. in Brooklyn, a scaffold collapse on East 166th St. and Sherman Ave. in the Bronx, and a fire with evacuated animals on Greenpoint Ave. and 46th St. in Queens. If you're the head of a major corporation that wants to make a mark on the New York skyline by occupying space in a tower that comes with all the cachet......

A little more information about the fatal drunk driving incident Friday night on the Cross Bronx Expressway. The driver of a Nissan Pathfinder, Glenn Salera, fled the wreckage of his car - and his injured friend - after hitting a tractor-trailer. The tractor-trailer was moving slowly because of traffic, and Salera, who had been speeding, swerved to avoid the vehicle, but the front-passenger side was badly damaged (the Daily News has a picture showing a......

Fox News Channel blowhard Bill O'Reilly and fellow Foxie Geraldo Rivera were in a heated argument on last night's edition of The O'Reilly Factor. The tiff was about a drunk driving illegal alien in Virginia killing someone and devolved into yelling and actual finger pointing with Geraldo starting out by pointing out to Bill that he was wrong. Since we usually avoid cable "news" like the plague, we were tipped to this morning, saw a......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: bank robbery on 1st and Houston, train tunnel fire under the East River, and a pedestrian struck in Park Slope. Roccer Mom, the 47-year old Myspace-using woman who was convicted of killing her daughter's friend in a drunk driving accident on the way home from clubbing, was sentenced to 16 months in prison today. Donut war on 14th Street: "A Dunkin’ Donuts will soon open several doors down from......

While divorce these days is all too common, divorce papers filed by Jennifer Swindal on Tuesday in Hillsborough County Circuit Court involve a less than common family. Jennifer Swindal, the daughter of Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner, cited irreconcilable differences when she filed for divorce from Steve Swindal after 23 years of marriage. Is the reason truly irreconcilable differences, or are Steve Swindal's February 15th arrest for driving under the influence and The Boss' incessant......

Quoth Tracy Morgan, on the occasion of his second conviction for drunk driving: "Drinking and driving is not cool." Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: unusual trauma in Riverside Park (A CHILD IN A PARK THAT HAS A PIECE OF WOOD IMPALED INTO THE KNEECAP --BNN), aircraft emergency at Laguardia, and 10-75 on lower Broadway. The Morning News offers some well-considered advice for city living-- example: "it is a law of physics that no two......

Hmm, we wonder if we'll start hearing local NJ governments lobby for expanded PATH train service in the off hours. Because a Hoboken city councilman was arrested for drunk driving on the West Side Highway over the weekend. The NY Times reports that City Councilman Chris Campos ran a red light on the West Side Highway near 43rd Street around 3AM Saturday morning. The police smelled alcohol on his breath and Campos subsequently failed a......

Comedian Doug Benson of Best Week Ever, Last Comic Standing Season 3, and Comedy Central Present's fame is in town to perform as part of the The Marijuana-Logues at Comix on January 18th, 19th, and 20th. In this interview, he discusses his love of movies, his film in progress Super High Me, and his new podcast, Doug Benson's I Love Movies. When did you start smoking pot? 27. The story goes something like this: I......

A train commute without a buzz? The MTA may look into banning alcohol sales on LIRR and Metro-North trains. The NY Sun reports MTA board member Mitchell Pally as saying, "They can have as many beers as they want as soon as they get home. I would prefer we don't let anyone drink alcohol on the train. If we're not ready to go that far … the least we can do is not make it......

Police have charged Eugenio Cidron with vehicular manslaughter after driving the West Side Highway bike path for at least a mile and fatally hitting bicyclist Eric Ng on Friday night. Cidron, who had been drinking at a company party at Chelsea Piers, was also charged with drunk driving and reckless endangerment. Cidron's brother told the Post, "This is the first time I ever heard of him drinking and driving. He was saddened by what happened,......

On 30 Rock, Saturday Night Live alum Tracy Morgan plays Tracy Jordan, a "wild and unpredictable movie star." In real life, Morgan was arrested for drunk driving this morning in New York City. TMZ breaks the story: The police report says Morgan "was unable to maintain a position in a lane of traffic" while driving at 4:38AM in Manhattan. And the Manhattan DA's office also told TMZ that Morgan's story was that he was "drinking......

If you were near Madison Square Garden earlier today and wondered, "Hey, is that Wade Boggs riding on that police horse?" it was Wade Boggs. The former Yankee was on Cold PIzza, and rode on a horse to sort of re-enact his joyous pony ride after winning the World Series with the Yankees in 1996. Oh, Wade - we hope that you have a horse farm near your home these days. According to the......

And not only that, they're getting Chevy Chase to star as a star who is anti-Semitic AND has blood on his clothes. What Law & Order season this will be - Cobrasnake-lite, murder victim photographs posted online on Friday's episode - we suppose the sensationalism needs to be extra high now that they are on Friday nights. Producer Dick Wolf said that they are in production for an episode about "a former television star who......

- Ruh roh. Several subway lines are experiencing problems because of the heavy rain. From the MTA: Due to weather conditions, E, F and R service is currently suspended in Queens. V service is suspended in both directions. 2 and 3 service has resumed with delays. 4, 5 and 6 service has resumed with delays. There is no 1 service south of Chambers Street. - The angry ex-member of a commune knew when and......

Guess the rain we kept hearing about this weekend didn't show showed up the minute we typed that. Keep your fingers crossed for a whole weekend Sunday of sun? And don't forget to wish your mother happy mother's day tomorrow! - There was a nasty, and fatal, DWI early this morning on the FDR Drive at 76th Street that involved an SUV jumping 15 feet up in the air. - Speaking of drunk driving,......

Now we know why Sandis Ozolinsh played like crap in the playoffs; like Nick Brophy in “Slap Shot” he was drunk on the ice. Yesterday, he was arrested for D.W.I. at 11 in the morning! While drunk driving is never cool, to be doing it at 11 a.m. is just scary. When he was pulled over he blew a .17 on the Breathalyzer. For a man his size that would mean he had to have......