About an hour ago, the NYPD's Department of Public Information (DCPI) accidentally CC'd their entire email list on a routine press release. Normally this list of about 230 email addresses is BCC'd. This list is very interesting, because it tells who the NYPD is informing about major crimes— a who's who list of the "credentialed" NYC media establishment. more ›

Gothamist had to work tirelessly for nearly eight years to obtain official NYPD-issued press credentials. During that time, we learned a few things that might come in handy if you have to go through the process. The NYPD has asked us for feedback about clarifying some of these issues on the official press pass application form—if and when we finish that process with them, we'll update this post. more ›

Tribeca residents had been asking for a stop light at the corner of Duane and Greenwich for more than twenty years. The intersection sees a ton of pedestrian traffic from two schools, a park and playground, a senior center, and the large Independence Plaza development, as well as a high volume of speeding taxis and cars shooting down Greenwich at full speed. But despite more than ten accidents in recent years and dozens of requests from community residents and local officials, the Department of Transportation refused to install a new light. Then, five months ago, three-year old Ozzie Carty was struck by a taxi, and the DOT finally gave in. more ›

Talk about an awkward business relationship. Former police reporter and Newsday columnist Leonard Levitt continues to visit Police Headquarters every week to gain sources and get tips — even though he was once banned from the building and had to rely on civil rights lawyers to regain his press pass. Levitt, who currently runs the website NYPD Confidential, isn't well liked by the brass at One Police Plaza. “His self-absorbed bitterness and inaccuracy remind me of the old biddy, an aging malicious gossip I knew growing up in the Bronx,'" Paul Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, told the Times in an e-mail. more ›