It might have been more than a little symbolic last week when the huge, pink-frosted gyroscopic cupcake towering over 23rd Street restaurant Burgers and Cupcakes came to the end of its last full spin. Meant to be a proud beacon of sugar, the giant baked good was instead an embattled neighborhood fixture from the start; many were happy to see it go. And it’s gone: writer James Wagner shares one rumor relating the cupcake’s possible......

You ain't nothing unless you try: The MTA is talking to a French (gasp!) company about installing cameras in subway cars and buses while the MTA admits that their efforts to improve lighting and emergency radio communications in subway tunnels have lagged. Ai. The MTA says the security improvements are slowed (communications target moved from mid-2004 to 2005; the tunnels - all 417 miles of them - won't be lit until 2020) because riders will......

- The most boring Oscars ever ever ever, commentaried - Your beloved Brooklyn restaurant instution turns into a...T.G.I. Friday's - We hate when sweeps week TV teasers promise to reveal a secret and then it turns out that it's just having Fabio as an ex-boyfriend, like on Average Joe - How you get out of a trapped subway - New Yorkers want big, gay marriages, but, as yet, it's illegal - Two new additions to......

Gothamist was wondering if anyone was trapped on a subway during the scary subway explosion and stoppage on Sunday evening for many trains running through the West Village. And it turns out that two people blogged it. bloggy calls it an "unexcellent adventure" and wonders why the media isn't picking up on how it shows NYC is underprepared for an attack. James Wagner has some great photographs of waiting in the subway, climbing out onto......