Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a carjacking at Tompkins and School Rds. on Staten Island, a person was killed by a 5 train at Bowling Green station in Manhattan, and an armed robbery at 51st Ave. and Northern Blvd. in Queens. Bidding closed at $2,600 for the new owner of the Seinfeld ASSMAN license plate prop on eBay. Another Mister Softee driver was busted for selling drugs out of his ice cream truck, this......

- A judge says that noncitizens can be detained indefinitely; clearly, there will be an appeal - A naked man running from the police crashed into a livery cab; the driver died from the accident - Jacob the Jeweler has been indicted for laundering $270 million! That's a lotta bling! - A sophomore with HIV leaves her Bronx high school (Belmont Prep), after students started taunting her; she will attend Travor Day in Manhattan,......

Each day, there seems like there's a new possible job avenue for Gothamist. Can you imagine being a private investigator who follows fake Mr. Softee trucks because the actual Mr. Softee wants to nail them for copyright infringement? The NY Times tailed the private eyes tailing the perps, and Gothamist had no idea that Mr. Softee wannabes would copy practically every single detail of Mr. Softee trucks, from the motto to the song, to dupe,......

So... wham! It's hot, humid, and not even officially summer yet. The forecast shows temps hitting 90 for the next couple of days before dropping to the 80s for the end of the week. The humidity might subside a bit but the sun will remain with us throughout. Some cheer and some grumble as the concrete oven heats up, but now we are blessed with another excuse to indulge in the wonderful treats of......

The biggest revelation from yesterday's City Counil hearing on the noise ban was that even Mr. Softee owner James Conway Jr. thinks the Mr. Softee song is annoying! He told the City Council, "I have four children, and if you pull up a truck in my neighborhood, I wouldn't want it to be there playing music over and over again, either." The New York Region > It Can Be an Annoying Jingle, Mister Softee Concedes......

In an article that will surely win The New York Times a Pulitzer, Dan Barry undergoes an experiment with the Mr. Softee jingle. Gothamist and our readers are very familiar with the jingle, but Barry sums it up nicely as, "Duh-DUH-duh-duh duh-duh-duhduh-duh-duh-duh-duh-DUH-duuuh-duh. . . ." Wait- isn't that one 'duh' too many? Anyway, Barry explores the hypnotic effects of the jingle and reveals that the jingle actually has words! My milkshakes and my sundaes and......

Can you train a dog not to bark? Jimmy, Inwood Mister Softee isn’t the only target of Mayor Bloomberg’s new campaign to get New Yorkers to bring less noise and more shhhhhhhh. Fido, too, is on the list of so-called quality of life offenders. So Gothamist has been wondering: how can you get a pooch to zip it? Dog owners might scoff at a ban on excessive barking. After all, you can’t police your......

After the Mayor announced possible changes to the noise code, the City Council has decided to attempt banning car alarms. The issue was debated, but the City Council did not come to a consensus. A bill would "prohibit the sale and installation of audible car alarms in the city," while there are thoughts to ask the Legislature to okay insurance discounts for silent alarms. There's a lot of other political hoo-ha about whether or not......