An afternoon spree of shootings and carjackings by one man was ended yesterday by police, who fatally shot the suspect in a gun battle where 130+ shots were fired. A 23-year-old named Victor Gordon, with ten arrests already listed on his rap sheet, left his girlfriend's apartment on President St. after an argument. He walked over to St. Paul's Place just south of Prospect Park––perhaps stopping at a few bars along the way––and stole a......

This is grim, for a second weekend in a row, three pedestrians were killed in separate incidents with vehicles:- A 71-year-old Queens woman was killed yesterday afternoon while walking around 84th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan; the driver stayed on the scene and was not charged. Ariela Koenigsburg was headed to her daughter's house to celebrate her 71st birthday. The cops suggested Koenigsburg may have been jaywalking, but her daughter says that's impossible.......

A terrible aftermath to Representative Joseph Crowley's holiday party. His staffer Eileen Gillepsie was driving with best friend and former staffer Peggy Bartichek afterwards, and Gillepsie drove down the wrong way on a Queens street. Her car was hit by a town car and "slammed" into a parked truck. From the NY Times:They were headed home about 12:50 a.m. yesterday, the police said, when Ms. Gillespie, heading south on 69th Street in Elmhurst, failed to......

After Thursday's story about the suspected closing of the Ford plant in Michigan that produces Lincoln Town Cars, people were worried about the end of an era in oversized upscale sedans. Car services were especially concerned, because the Town Car is a warhorse: Cheap to fix, comfortable with lots of legroom, and classy enough for customers. But now it turns out that the Town Cars will still be produced in Canada. Ford told the Daily......

You know from the Daily News headline, Ford to Town Car: Drop dead, that the Daily News secretly wishes they could have made an article about Ford ending production of the Lincoln Town Car a cover story. The Lincoln Town Car is beloved by drivers (reliable!) passengers (legroom!), and even criminals (trunk room for bodies!), but Ford won't be building Town Cars after next year. Gothamist will put money down on car service companies buying......

A horrible car accident unraveled in the Bronx yesterday afternoon: A 1994 Acura Legend somehow jumped the median of the Bronx River Parkway, killing five of its seven passengers. Four members of the Gardner family of the Bronx - Derrick, 40, and daughter Asia (some reports say Derrick and ASia were from Mississippi), 8; brothers Jamel, 14, and Keywann, 23 (Derrick was their uncle) - and relative Brandon Daye, 18, of Mississippi were killed. Two......

Following up last Friday's post about mysteries from the 8th Avenue and 42nd Street subway station: - You know the story of the man who was found tortured and semi-tied up at the subway station, who police suspected might be an Eastern European, who didn't speak but only wrote and drew in order to communicate with the police that he had been in the trunk of a Lincoln Town car? Well, it turns out he......

A couple days after an Eastern European man appeared at the Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street subway station looking beaten up, police still don't really know that much about his case. Police say that the man was burned, bound and tortured, and probably held in the trunk of a Lincoln Town Car, but the man still hasn't spoken yet - he's been communicating with the cops by writing and drawing. The man is recovering at......

Yikes: A woman, looking for a cab to go to JFK, was assault by a man who claimed to be a livery cab driver. Apparently the man, in a black Lincoln Town car, approached the woman in Ozone Park on Sunday's snowy morning and said he could take her to JFK. She accepted, but he later threatened her with a knife near 115th Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard and made her "perform a sexual act." The......

Gothamist is pretty excited that Michelin will be reviewing NYC restaurants, because we love strange, pudgy, benign seeming characters. However, we were wondering how Michelin, a tire company whose guides have become as essential as AAA guides (like an indie rock band, Michelin is "huge in Europe") with the stature of Zagat, would work in our less driver-centric city. Luckily, the NY Times article filled us in: The star system retains Michelin's link to car......

Again, after a beautiful weekend, New Yorkers wake up to terror news, it's just that today it seems terrorists had been Washington > Security: Tourist Copters in New York City a Terror Target" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/09/politics/09terror.html?hp">targetting tourist helicopters and limousines to use as ways to attack the city. A number of arrests and raids in Britain and Pakistan lead intelligence officials to believe this, though the NY Times says that helicopter companies in NYC hadn't heard anything.......