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. Gonzalez, 42, who had done some part-time work at the Key Foods where he met 24-year-old Tina Negron and dated her on-and-off for a year up until a few months ago, fled the store on foot.......

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......

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......

Yeesh, there sure are a lot of new movies out this weekend. Choose wisely and you will be well rewarded. In a shameless bid for our "penguins are cute" bias, Warner Brothers releases the animated Happy Feet about singing and tap dancing Emperor Penguins. If only furry black and white birds who rap to Stevie Wonder beats weren't so darn adorable! If you're still in Arrested Development withdrawal, the hilarious Will Arnett stars in Bob......

After we included a throwaway link in yesterday's post about the once-a-week Egg Store we got an e-mail from a reader asking who exactly this Mike the Butcher was. A reasonable question, so in the same spirit of remembering Manhattan characters who've faded away we thought we'd share. Short answer: He was a butcher who used to have a shop on Third Street (right). Longer answer: He was "an artist" with "fingers as large......

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: The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission today unanimously voted to landmark the former New......

So-called "wolf packs" of teenagers have been increasingly mugging people in Prospect Park lately. The Post says many of the robberies' victims are teens, where suddenly "they are surrounded by a larger group of youths" who then take their money and cellphones. However, a mugging last week was on a 53 year old man who was "shoved to the sidewalk, kicked and robbed," which is alarming, if the teens are looking to be 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. And the man who police arrested for an East Third Street building robbery-turned-sexual assault had also "robbed and molested" the woman's neighbor, too! John Hamlett was......

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......

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: New Yorkers and tourists heading out for lunch this Thursday April 6 2006 could be greeted by an unexpected surprise. A parade, consisting of fifty-six motor homes,......

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......

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......

-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). -As gas prices continue to soar some companies are turning to other means of transport for employees, like zipcars. -Wonder where those trees went in front of Grace Church? The Villager reports they got taken down in preparation for an underground gymnasium. -NY......

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. If our initial visit is an accurate indication of things to come, the......

If there's snow, there's likely to be some sort of electrical shock potential. There were two instances of dogs, and their companions, being shocked. In Brooklyn Heights, one dog from a dog walker's pack was shocked on a sidewalk at Clark and Hicks Streets; Con Ed said the cause was "stray voltage" and now the issue was being dealt with, even though dog walkers have complained about that patch for two years. The dog, who......

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. Because the murals are scattered throughout Brooklyn, not only are they rarely seen by people from outside a particular neighborhood, they are......

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. Official Prospect Park website......