Last night, Caroline Kennedy made her first public appearance since stepping out of the Senate seat hunt last month. She was attending the opening of designer Giorgio Armani's new Emporio Armani flagship store. The evening was also a celebration of Armani's $1 million donation to the Fund for Public Schools (Kennedy is the co-chair). more ›

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A pedestrian struck at 12th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan, a homicide in Brooklyn, and a water rescue in Forest Park in Queens
• Mathieu Eugene showed NY1 his new apartment and says that he was sleeping there before the election; if that's really true, why didn't he say so earlier and why won't he show NY1 the lease?
• In order to avoid any parking ticket squabbles, the city has suspended Monday alternate side of the street parking in anticipation of snow

In their first annual "Design Issue" (celebrating "fresh life-affirming spirit" of approachable, warm design), Newsweek includes a "Design Quiz." Gothamist chortled through the ten questions; here are three: more ›