Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: smoke inhalation victims at Centre and White Sts. in Manhattan, a shooting on Neptune Ave. in Brooklyn, and a truck vs. overpass at 155th St. and South Rd. in Queens. Design firm EDAW was chosen to plan the Steeplechase Plaza for a now-vacant lot near the Coney Island boardwalk. The development beneath the Parachute Jump may include a water park and a platform for viewing Cyclones minor league baseball......

Hopefully you've been loading up on electrolytes and getting plenty of sleep because the Tribeca Film Festival begins tonight, and boy is it a jam-packed 12 days to come. With 41 countries represented and over two hundred feature as well as short films, this year's Tribeca Film Festival is an impressive (and frankly, a touch overwhelming) array of movie treats. While the fest was started in 2002 as a boost for the depressed downtown area,......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a large crowd on Prince and Lafayette at 4:45am, 10-75 at Broome and Attorney in LES, and a barricaded EDP in Midtown East. Greetings from Washington Heights: the Castle Village retaining wall that collapsed in May 2005 has finally been repaired. If your landlord is trying to evict you to turn the building into an illegal hotel, you might soon get some relief-- the city is changing the loophole......

Two more major festivals open this week, then there’s a bit of a lull before the Fringe arrives to take over in mid-August. It’s been an incredibly festival-packed summer, but Gothamist hopes that rather than getting worn out by it all, you’ve been building up endurance so you can go to many of the 1300+ performances in this ninth Fringe. One interesting set of options for your last round of festival “training” comes in the......