With the Bowery Hotel now open, Gothamist thought it was worth taking one final look at the Bowery of the 1970s and '80s through the lens of Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. Sante told Gothamist – via email – some details of life on the Bowery before the presence of Eric Goode, Ian Schrager, Whole Foods, Seth Greenberg, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, “Nolita......

From the Gothamist Newsmap: A check cashing joint robbery in Brooklyn, a confined space rescue in the Bronx, and an evidence search in Queens Ugh, a lawyer asked a client for a blow job in return for taking her case; the client is trying to sue him but says the Manhattan DA's office won't take the case, even though she recorded the lawyer admitting he propositioned her! Gowanus Lounge predicts the Red Hook will......

We'd like to introduce you to the newest edition to the Gothamist Vault of Awesome/Insane New York Architectural Stories: "The Queerest House in the Country" aka the "Spite House." Only five-feet wide, the Upper East Side house was built for the sole intention of satisfying a grudge between the owner of the house and the his neighbor. The story begins (from Valentine's Manual of Old New York (1929)): In the year 1882 one Hyman......

The New York Marble Cemetery, smack between Second and Third Streets and Avenues, is gem of Old New York hidden in the East Village. Not to be confused with its sister cemetery, the New York City Marble Cemetery which you can actually see from the street, the NYMC is the first non-sectarian cemetery in the city. It opened in 1830 and holds over 2,000 people in it's vaults. It is also the last place......

Old New York institutions are, of course, always moving, changing and getting run over; it's the nature of the city to be constantly abandoning its past. Nonetheless, the fact that the odor-iffic old-school Fulton Fish Market will be leaving Lower Manhattan in June seems a major shift. Gothamist won't rhapsodize poetic about the early-dawn shipments of stripers and the colorfully-gritty fishmongers with their personalized hooks and deft filleting; the Times piece this morning did that......