The police are continuing to look for James Gonzalez, who is suspected of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend at a grocery store as well as stabbing her co-worker. The attack occurred Friday afternoon at the East Village Key Foods location. more ›

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. more ›

A state appeals court ruled that a couple can evict tenants at 47 East Third Street so they can turn the 11,575 square foot building into their private home. A five bedroom home with library, gym, and nanny's suite. The five-story building had 15 units, with many tenants that had rent-stabilized rents of $600-1200 a month, and last year, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge found there would be an "inescapable consequence" of converting the building to a single-unit residence. more ›

Yeesh, there sure are a lot of new movies out this weekend. Choose wisely and you will be well rewarded. more ›

. Longer answer: He was "an artist" with "fingers as large as the sausages he stuffed on the spot." Mike the Butcher was a man who "cut oxtails like butter" and who was the "stuff that New York legends are made of" - here he is in 1985. In other words, he was our local neighborhood butcher, and we miss him. more ›

Yah! Yesterday the NYC Landmarks Preservation Committee announced their official ruling on the Pippen Building. That's the cute little structure on the corner of Third Avenue and Third Street in Gowanus in Brooklyn-- the one that sits at the edge of the new Whole Foods site. The announcement is an interesting read, complete with some history on the building: more ›

May 24: Two attacks, exact locations unclearFor the crimes where the location was clear, those are generally popular areas, especially if you're outside the park or on the path. We're curious what time these crimes took place (afternoon? evening?), but we're sure the police are eager to stop this. If not the police, then we'd guess a consortium of real estate agencies will start to do a neighborhood patrol. more ›

An 81 year old man who was attacked in his Washington Heights apartment elevator died yesterday, making his mugger a murderer. The thief, in his 20s and about a foot taller than victim Jacob Gerstle, forced the man to his apartment, beat him, and stole a wallet and cellphone. more ›

One of Gothamist's new favorite blogs is The Gowanus Lounge-- it's reporting on real estate and urban development around the city. Today it reports on the acquisition of the Jewish Press Building on Third Avenue and Second Street, one of the last obstacles blocking the progress of the proposed Leviev Boymelgreen "Gowanus Village" project. The company plans to develop the entire lot between Carroll Street and Third Street, from Third Avenue all the way to the Gowanus Canal. That's a lot of redevelopment! Current plans project 400 units on 375,000 square feet of space. The new Whole Foods (ETA still unknown) will be built just a block away on the corner of 3rd Street, so while the toxic sludge in the canal might turn future tenants into mutants, at least they will be well fed. more ›

Yes, we are aware of widespread reports of a line of 56 Mitzvah Tanks driving slowly through Manhattan. At first, we thought the Hasidim had decided to topple the godless Bloomberg administration in a bloody coup, but then we got this press release from Lubavitcher World Headquarters: more ›

A Chow-Chow mix was killed by an electrified sidewalk in Park Slope. Owner Danny Kapailian had been walking Barkis on Third Avenue and Third Street and tells the Post that Barkis became agitated and tried to run into the street, but Kapilian kept him on the sidewalk because a car was approaching. After the dog started to convulse, an animal hospital was called and their workers realized Barkis was electrocuted when they picked him. This is terrible - the dog was 80 pounds! In true city agencies don't work together (okay, Con Ed is not a city agency, but it's a city utility, for heaven's sake) fashion, Con Ed says the shocks came from "corroding wires" where a lamp had been removed by the Department of Transportation two years ago - and the DoT never told Con Ed. So ridiculous. Maybe the DoT should email Con Ed with a list of other lamps they've removed. more ›

Today's City section focuses on the gentrification of the East Village over the past few decades. Using the original production of 'Rent' and the new movie version as a framing device, Richard Perez talks about the constantly changing populations of the neighborhood, complains about the truly awful new stuff (*cough* Sculpture for Living *cough*), reminisces about the areas former druggy splendor, worries about the disappearance of the AIDS epidemic from popular culture, and generally expresses the pain of nostalgia for a neighborhood that just ain't what it used to be. more ›

-Rachel Donadio has a fun essay in the Book Review on how the information age will effect future biographers and historians (the moral: make sure your Boswell backs up your hard drive). more ›

Gothamist managed to get on over to the new IFC Center this weekend to see Miranda July's excellent Me and You and Everyone We Know and decided to check out the food as well. We had heard that there was going to be an adjacent restaurant serving a gourmet take on pub fare and wanted to see if it was any good. more ›

Lately, Gothamist has been seeing more dogs wearing shoes or booties, like these Watson's Pet shoes, in this bad weather - not to mention seeing dogs in coats and sweaters. Can any readers whose dogs are now shod tell us if they are working? Do your dogs like putting them on? Or do they complain and argue with you to wear a different outfit?
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Groundswell Community Mural Project presents a special exhibit about "Rest in Peace" murals in Brooklyn. An experiment in anti-violence education, nine teenagers from the borough spent their summer researching the murals, their artists, and the lives of the people they depict, in an effort to address prevention of violence in their own communities. more ›

This is crazy: A homeless man assaulted and tried to rape a woman near the Third Street entrance of Prospect Park yesterday at noon. A police officer patroling the area chased and arrested the man. The Post says the woman, a fashion designer, had her faced very badly bruised and cut up after the man pounded her head into the ground. Jesus. Third Street. At noon! Newsday has detailed coverage. more ›