Stand clear of the breaking water, please. A husband and wife were riding the subway to Bellevue so she could give birth but never quite made it to the hospital, settling for delivery on the F train platform at East Broadway. Yep, a husband relied on the MTA to get his wife to the hospital, despite the fact that entire generations of New Yorkers have grown old and died while waiting for the F. But......

This week in the Times, Bruni two-stars Allen & Delancey. Loves the atmosphere; says “the food at Allen & Delancey is at once sophisticated and accessible, reliant on fail-safe luxuries deployed in a modestly creative and occasionally playful manner.” Says that in some ways it’s similar to what he did uptown (at Gordon Ramsay at the London) but it works much better in this context. In $25 and Under, "> Peter Meehan goes to Food......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a large sinkhole on Nostrand Ave. and Quincy St. in Brooklyn, a large fight on Park Ave. and 129th St. in Manhattan, and a water rescue at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island. The Daily Show is giving the green screen that is used to fake remote segments a rest and actually sending correspondent Rob Riggle to Iraq to file reports for the satircal news show. This......

While Chinatown's annual Chinese New Year Parade won't be until next weekend, there are still plenty of activities to celebrate the year 4705. If you're heading to Chinatown tomorrow (New Year's Day), be sure to head over to Chatham Square (the intersection of Bowery, Mott and East Broadway) for the New Year’s Day Firecracker Ceremony & Cultural Festival. For the first time since the city banned fireworks (and firecrackers), there will be real firecrackers......

State Senator Jeff Klein, who reps the Bronx, part of Yonkers, Eastchester, Mount Vernon and New Rochelle, released a list of the "dirty dozen" supermarkets of establishments that have failed many, many supermarket inspections. Klein's issue with inspections is that even if an establishment fails many times, they can still operate. Thus, a "three-strike law" should be put in place to make sure the stores shape up. Questionable establishments are in all five boroughs and......

Today is "Day Without An Immigrant" day, as immigrants across the county will choose various ways to protest the country's possible immigration policy shift. While some are not going to work at all, in New York, workers are going to link their arms at 12:16PM for about 20 minutes. From the New York Immigration Coalition:At exactly 12:16pm on May 1st, immigrant workers, business owners, and community members at several locations can take a few minutes......

Police have arrested three people suspected of beating a man and then pushing him down a flight of subway stairs - leaving him in a coma. WABC 7 said that one of their viewers called in the tip after the police released surveillance images of three men who live on Cherry Street: Sean Morales, Rodney Hopkins, and Jeffrey Valerrio, ages 17-22. Police say the three tried to rob Gary Schultz, who had just cashed a......

Rejoice, freecyclers and freegans: this Google maps mashup is for you! Garbage Scout is sort of a Dodgeball for garbage-lovers. It's motto is "Can you believe someone was throwing this out?" In many cases, we can indeed imagine why someone would throw their crap out, but their loss is indeed your gain. Here's how it works: From your phone, email a picture of your find to "street@garbagescout.com" In the body of the email type......

It's unclear whether or not a woman is still under a northbound F train at East Broadway and Canal Street (it happened around 9AM), but F train service has been rerouted to the A as we await reports on her condition. Authorities still don't know if she jumped, fell, or was pushed. As it happens, earlier this week, the Post reported that a drunk man fell into the Chambers Street southbound A tracks and escaped......

We got this fortune at The Nice Restaurant down on East Broadway on Friday night. But shouldn't the lucky numbers be something more like 18006969696? [Related: New Yorker Talk of the Town piece on Wonton Food, and a Fortune Teller Fish from The Mermaid Inn.]......

A bustling restaurant in Chinatown was the scene of a murder: A couple argued with Ming wang at Yung Sun Seafood Restaurants; the couple left, and, later, the male half of the couple returned to shoot wang 4-8 times in the head and body. The shooter fled on foot and is still at large. The restaurant knew Wang and the couple, and the Daily News says that Wang and the shooter were "business rivals"; Wang......

Gothamist is happy to see that organizations like IndieMusicForLife.org are out there bringing together independent singer-songwriters to help in the common cause of finding a cure for cancer. The money is raised through donations, live shows and from artists donating songs for compilation CD’s which are sold. Many have joined forces with this organization to help set up and perform at fund raising events all over the country, helping to raise awareness and money for......

Mmm, the Daily News examined some delicious lunch spots, from the affordable, like The Adore, to the gourmet-to-go, 'wichcraft, plus the "break the bank" kind (Masa, with a $300 lunch), which makes Gothamist want to plan what we'll be eating for lunch this week. And it got us thinkig that the next big sandwich in this post-panini (Monterey Cheese and turkey says quesedilla more than panini to us), post-make-your-own-salad (we're tired and lazy now -......

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