The New York Times has an interesting piece today on the mass arrest of a group of teenagers, who were rounded up as they were heading to their friend's funeral, in an effort to quell gang violence. A collection of young men and women, the youngest thirteen, were on their way from Bushwick to Coney Island in Brooklyn, dressed up (or down) in t-shirts bearing the name of their slain friend Donnell McFarland, who......

Since the introduction of 311, the ease of complaining about noise is certainly greater; but the frenetic pace of building in New York is also contributing to a skyrocketing number of complaints by residents that construction noise is out of control. The New York Post reports that complaints for after-hours construction work grew ten-fold between 2001 and 2006, from 635 to 6,160. After-hours construction is defined as work done before 7 a.m. or after......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: Bldg Collapse | Maulberry [sic] St & East Houston Street Manhattan, NY | 3/31/2007 4:37 p.m., Construction Accident | W 60th St & Amsterdam Ave Manhattan, NY | 3/31/2007 12:06 p.m., and Ballistics Search | 2750 W 33rd St Brooklyn, NY | 3/31/2007 10:58 a.m. (In other words, heads up.) Long live Photoshop: Did you see today's Nancy Pelosi cover? They'll leave the light on: hotel at 6 Columbus......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: manhole fire with victims in Sunset Park, large crowd in Chelsea, and four people stabbed in Harlem. A Long Island Miracle: "A cab hit some ice on the Long Island Expressway Saturday morning, flew over a guardrail, flipped over, dropped 30 feet to the highway below -- and landed upright. The driver and the passenger weren't seriously hurt." The 239-foot Airbus super jet - Lufthansa Flight 8940 from Frankfurt......

- Sometimes people just want to get caught, like the subway flasher who wore a jacket with his URL on it - There's talk of putting a school in Tower 5 at the World Trade Center, which is good, since it'll help with overcrowding (in like five years, though!) - Ann Coulter's comments about September 11 widows ("I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.") and calling them "The Witches of East......