Momofuku Ko, the trendy new 12 seat restaurant by acclaimed chef David Chang, is getting more attention for its maddening reservation system than for its food. That’s partly due to the fact that no critic has been able to get into the place and review it, not even the top dog in town, Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni. The problem is that Chang refuses to give anyone preferential treatment, and all who would dine at......

Self-portraiturists rejoice: Anish Kapoor's "Sky Mirror" sculpture was unveiled this morning at Rockefeller Center. Any photoblogger worth their memory card is planning a visit today, so to get into the spirit, we're going to award a Gothamist t-shirt to the shooter who captures the best sky-mirror shot. Add your link in the comments below, and we'll announce a winner at 6pm. To get things started, here are some shots that have already been taken:......

-- Bwog has some advice for socially-retarded freshman entering Columbia. Of course, any list of advice that contains "DO read the Iliad," may not be worth reading! -- Yowzers: Queens Councilmember John Liu really is EVERYWHERE. -- Are we the only ones excited about the Gin Blossoms playing live tonight at the Apple Store? Surprisingly, that's the biggest venue they've played since 1994! -- Famed DUMBO architect Robert Scarano to anonymous critic: "Don't degrad......

Blogumentary...it was bound to happen. We were hoping the documentary on blog culture would be a little different, but to be fair - we've only seen the trailer. You can watch it here. The last part of said trailer just seems a bit too much like something you'd see in a 6th grade class. A voiceover explains to, apparently an audience who has never heard of "weblogs" before, that: "Blogs offer a more personal citizen......

- Lindsay vs. Puffy at Butter! Not surprisingly, Puffy won. - Crazed Staten Island hippie stalker is still gunning for blood! - Looks like the buying vs. renting debate has finally been settled. Since 1990, renters saw a 68% increase in their housing costs. Buyers who re-financed at least once saw a 7% decrease. - Brooklyn Papers got a new website. It's at least 75% less ugly than before! First web-exclusive: Brooklyn Yards "doesn't......

The internets are abuzz with Jason Kottke's "Manhattan Elsewhere" project. In it, he uses Google Maps and Google Earth to place Manhattan on the same map as other cities (Chicago, SF, Boston, Minneapolis, and the teeming metropolis that is Barron, Wisconsin!) The project is a loving remake of Bill Rankin's Errant Island of Manhattan project-- check that one out for LA and Philadelphia comparisons. Six years passed between the two projects, and it is......

- A judge says Bruce Ratner can make way for his Brooklyn Nets arena and tear down five buildings - Senator Schumer doesn't want anyone from the United Arab Emirates running a city port - A sweet elegy for cabbie Leo Lazarus in the Village Voice - If the state thinks high school graduation rates are so disturbing, why won't they do anything about them? - Oooh - rental rates for 71 Clinton -......

Jason Kottke has been travelling in Asia for the last week, and we've been following along via Flickr and his blog. All of his travel coverage is interesting, but he's doing particularly well spotting weird beverages-- including this Pepsi Coffee soda, and Fanta in a bag. The latter is particularly interesting: apparently street vendors in Bangkok pour the soda into a bag and stick in a straw-- this way they get to keep the recycling......

Yesterday, Jason Kottke posted what he felt is necessary to the perfect sandwich. After going back to the sandwich's humble beginings, he states: The keys to a good sandwich are the three Bs: bread, balance, and...ok, there's only two Bs, but they're important. Aside from the main ingredient (turkey, tuna, chicken salad, etc.), the bread has the power to make or break a sandwich. The first thing you taste when you take a bite is......

A sightseeing helicopter crashed into the East River near the the South Street Seaport helipad this afternoon, injuring all seven people aboard. The passengers were able to be rescued quickly because the police had harbor units conducting a drill, according to Newsday, and the passengers stood on the chopper's inflated pontoons for rescue. The FAA says the helicopter made a hard landing, but the cause of the helicopter failure is unclear. Gothamist is glad......

The Wooster Collective has a great podcast featuring Darius Jones, one of the great New York streetartists. He's been doing a series of pieces featuring lamp-posts and street lights leaning in to kiss each other- and apparently he has just installed a new one somewhere in North Brooklyn- write in if you spot it! Darius' work reminds us of two classic shots featured in the Bluejake Love series: cones in love (by Jason Kottke)......

Gothamist has been in on this secret for a few weeks now, and since we're not really the type who keeps secrets, it's been killing us- killlllling us! Now that the cat (kat?) is out of the bag, however, we are free to pass on the news to all of our friends: Jason Kottke, the O.G. of blogging, has quit his job, moved to DUMBO, and gone professional. Eschewing advertising, Kottke has gone the......

As 2004 stumbles to a close, many of our blogger buddies have begun churning out their "Best of 2004" lists. For instance, Jason Kottke has already gotten up on the board twice. First, he penned his "Favorite Weblogs of 2004" (Gothamist just barely scraped in at #10; and aimless? For shame, Mr. Kottke. We have a clear aim: being occasionally awesome.) Always the overachiever, Kottke rang in a second time with "Best Links of......

Good bye, fall TV season, for one night: It's Presidential Debate Time! The first debate happens tonight in Miami, because if stuff if going to get all crazy and confused in a presidential way, it's gotta be in Florida. If only there was Miamist. President Bush's and Senator Kerry's aides have been getting things ready, like making sure the lighting is flattering and not too shiny. Of course, the candidates have it pretty easy, given......

Everyone is talking or writing about Dan Rather and CBS's News' questionable judgement over the National Guard documents, even going so far as to attach "-gate" to "Rather" just in case people out there couldn't figure out this was a bit scandalous. One caption on a Dan Rather photograph from Reuters read:Internet bloggers have drawn blood and American journalism may never be the same. To hear some press experts tell it, CBS's admission on September......

Photobloggers are Gothamist's eyes on the street- so for the next four days, we're going to feature a wrapup of all the RNC photoblog posts we can find. If you want to send us a link, leave it in the comments or email Jake. Today's amazing photography from the march: Joe Holmes, Citying, more Citying, Erin's pix at fshk, and Buzznet's NoRNC. Good shots of the dragon burning at IndyMedia. And since we didn't......

More troubling bike-related news from the RNC: Bikes-Against-Bush creator Josh Kinberg got arrested yesterday afternoon while demonstrating his invention during an interview with Ron Reagan at MSNBC. As we have previously reported, Kinberg's bike is set up to spray chalk protest messages on the sidewalk- the plan was for people to submit the messages via the Bikes-Against-Bush website. During the arrest, Kinberg very politely demonstrated that the chalk messages could be washed off with......

Given the hoo-ha in both traditional print media and in the blogosphere, one would think Apple had finally introduced the hoverPod (a flying skateboard with an IPod built in - Gothamist sent Steve Jobs our sketches months ago, but for a general idea, look at what the Modern Humorist did with the Segway, then known as "Ginger"). Not so: Apparently it's just a thinner, cheaper, longer-battery-life, lighter iPod. Bonus: In the pictures posted on Engadget......

Various personalities of the blogging world will collide at the NY Bloggers talk at the SoHo Apple Store this Monday, May 3. See Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis moderate/referee a discussion with web publishers Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis. ftrain's Paul Ford chats with Meg Hourihan, Anil Dash, and Jason Kottke about technology. And Felix Salmon will find out what kinds of medication Choire Sicha, Lockhart Steele, and Jen Chung must be on during the editors......

Thank you, readers: Your help has helped us get THREE Weblog Awards nominations! And considering the company we're thrilled to make the cut. We're nominated for Best Group Weblog, Best Non-Weblog Content of a Weblog Site (what is that, exactly?), and Best American Blog. We face off against Jason Kottke in the Best American Blog category, but we know who'll probably prevail: That kid who played Wesley Crusher. Our vote for best web applications......

Bronx resident Patrice Moore was found after two days of being buried under all the magazines, newspapers, and books he's saved. Moore had been calling for his neighbors – "I was hollering for two days, 'Let me out! Let me out!' and nobody wanted to answer" – but many neighbors, who characterized Moore as "quirky," didn't think anything of it since he was in the habit of talking to himself. His landlord even heard Moore's......

People, don't worry about Paris Hilton, this is how she wanted things. Or that's what the Daily News believes, based on the "expert opinion" of various people, like psychologists, sex therapists, professors, and Dan Savage. Headlines: – Narcissism; Stanley Teitelbaum, psychologist, "A lot of times people are so into themselves, they want to have a visual recording of what they're doing. They want to bask in the glow of what was going on." – Excitement;......

P. Diddy managed to make good on his desire to complete the ING NYC Marathon in under 4 hours yesterday. An impressive job, considering that he has only been training for eight weeks (people train for months, if not a year) and the Times reports that his legs seized at mile 12 and that his sports physician says "he's hurting right now" (but he made his post-marathon press conference, of course). Also in the......

Gothamist went to the Big Apple Blogger Bash last Friday at Siberia. Organized by Paul Frankenstein, BABB was filled with some of the hardest working bloggers in New York. Like Jason Kottke. Paul says the next one won't be until September, so Gothamist is trying to convince him to organize a baby-BABB before then. Funnily enough, Page Six today says that Jayson Blair was at Siberia on the day he supposedly covering the Jessica Lynch......

Another great view of the Blogosphere: BlogShares - Gothamist. This site tracks different blogs as stocks, and assigns a numerical worth based on the number of inbound and outbound links. Gothamist has a valuation of $113.95. To put that in perspective, Pete's site is worth $48068.35, Anil's is worth $16935.91 and Jason Kottke's is worth $12876.37. So I guess that means they can buy and sell our ass(es).......

Finally, an article on the convergence of blogging and Hollywood: Salon.com Technology: Hollyblog. It seems that studios want to control information about a film, to circumvent the Harry Knowles posse from ruining a film (five words: Batman and Robin, Joel Schumacher). Hmm, seems like studios and publicity firms alike will need to be even more guerilla tactics, going beyond plotting stars relationships and goings on - as silly as America's Sweethearts, there is truth to......

Once again, Jason Kottke comes through with the good links: Feng Shui for web designers. This of course relates to previous posts around Bluejake, including Jen's Feng Shui architecture series, and my post entitled In Praise of Straight Lines on the Main Bluejake log.......

Am I the first person to wonder if there might be beef coming between the Metafilters of the world and managed weblog style magazines like Gawker, a weblog magazine for New York? That is, Metafilter is sort of a democratic free-for-all where anyone can post a story, a situation that has a lot of pros and cons. A pro is that you see a lot of weird and interesting stories and links. A con is......