The number of stop and frisks in the city may be soaring to record highs and we're still the marijuana arrest capital of the world, but other police stats are actually dropping at a surprising rate. Specifically, traffic and parking tickets. Today's Post points out that buried inside the city's budget is the fact that the NYPD is on pace to write nearly 269,597 fewer tickets for traffic violations this fiscal year than they did last year (which was already an eight-year low). That means potentially $9 million less in revenue for the city—unless they can make up the difference by ticketing cyclists? more ›

'Tis the season for galas we aren't fancy enough to attend but do anyway, and next up is MoMA's annual Party in the Garden, taking place on May 22nd. Last year we attended when Kanye West (along with Jay-Z) was the musical guest for the evening, and this year they've booked Santigold, who the NY Times just favorably profiled. The party is 11 days away, and there are still tickets available, which start at $150 (after party ticket) and go alllllll the way up to $100,000 (dinner table for ten). more ›

We're not really Ball or Gala people, but each year we'll endure heels for the Moth's annual fête, because it's that enjoyable. The Moth Ball is tomorrow night, and here's your reminder that tickets are (somehow) still available (we have confirmed this)—just call this number: 646-205-2722. more ›

This afternoon Steve Martin Tweeted: "May/June tour dates announced! At a theatre probably NOT near you." Martin is bringing his music and comedy show to New York City on June 1st, and yes, the venue is probably NOT near you—he has chosen Staten Island for his appearance. more ›

It's the most wonderful time of the year! The Moth is holding their annual gala on May 8th, and have just released some details. We look forward to this amazing event every year, and highly recommend buying tickets. more ›

Remember how last month Kraftwerk tickets went on sale for an 8-night run at MoMA, and pretty much everyone scored ulcers instead of tickets? And those lucky bastards who did get tickets mysteriously died in a fire? (Or maybe we just dreamed that?) Anyway, all is not lost if you're a fan desperate to catch the electronica pioneer's first NYC appearance in seven years. The event's sponsor, Volkswagen, has tickets to give away for each night of the run! All you have to do is dance, monkey, dance. more ›

Between cutting coupons, selling off pieces of their outfield, and drastically lowering expectations about the team's immediate future, the Mets really haven't had an inspiring off-season. More recently, Ike Davis has been diagnosed with Valley Fever, David Wright is grumpy about being called an "underdog," and Irving Picard's $386 million lawsuit won't go away. Now according to financial records, Citi Field revenues have dropped more than 30 percent since it opened in 2009, and Mets ticket sales are down by nearly 50 percent in that period. Maybe GM Sandy Alderson wasn't joking about that fundraiser for gas money. more ›

Looking for a little weekend entertainment? You could shell out $20 to watch thespian Nicholas Cage ride across an IMAX screen in a reprisal of his breakout role as a beleaguered bounty hunter in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D. Or, you can hang onto that Jackson 'til next fall, when the Metropolitan Opera introduces a new seat pricing system that will increase the price of premium seats while bringing down the price of cheaper seats to just twenty bucks a pop. more ›

Thousands of area Kraftwerk fans are wondering what's the German word for ticket fail today, after tickets for the eight night stand at MoMA sold out faster than you can say shoot the glass. Just as Hitler predicted! The quick sellout says something about the high demand for a "group" that hasn't "performed" in NYC since 2005 at Hammerstein Ballroom. (HELL of a show.) MoMA used the website ShowClix to handle tickets for the sale, and many of us experienced time-outs and a debalitiating inability to even load Showclix.com for a while. After well over an hour in a queue, all Kraftwerk fans at Gothamist HQ were denied. But we weren't alone; let us collectively mourn this completely unsurprising turn of events with the soothing balm of a Twitter pity party: more ›

First things first: it's very important to state up front that this year's Governors Ball will NOT be on Governors Island. Which is a shame because there's just something a little more special about attending a show on Governors Island (yes, even with the ferry clusterf*ck), over say... Randall's Island. Which is where the Governors Ball will be held this summer :( But let's focus on the positive. The fest is back for a 2nd year, and the organizers have just announced this summer's lineup, which is actually pretty great—and hey, maybe these guys could end up saving the festival scene in New York—which has been dying for quite some time. more ›

Madonna has just announced details for the Madonna 2012 World Tour, where you'll be able to see her and her guns up close. Tickets will be going on sale February 13th here in the States, and in New York, her big show will take place on September 6th at Yankee Stadium. Her Madgesty does love the sports as of late and has been known to support the Yankees. more ›

Madonna is expected to hit the road on a tour later this year—following her Super Bowl stint—in support of her upcoming release, titled MDNA (and yes, she knows that title sound an awful lot like a popular drug). Warming up the press machine, the performer told Newsweek in a recent interview that she's well worth the hundreds of dollars her fans will shell out to see her. Specifically, the 53-year-old star told her fans, "Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together and come to my show. I'm worth it." more ›

There are still six more solid months between us and the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises, but that's nothing considering the hype started long ago. So naturally, when tickets went on sale for opening night (July 19th at midnight), those coveted IMAX tickets sold out immediately. Which means there's currently a lot of price gouging happening on Craigslist, with single tickets going for around 100 bucks. more ›

Fun fact that most renters don't realize? Property owners can (and frequently are) ticketed for the litter outside their buildings. And what offends a ticketing sanitation cop can include furniture and sometimes, as in the case of Queensman Raymond Janson, trash cans out for pick ups. Hey, people gotta make their (totally not real) quotas somehow! more ›

Chances are, if you bought tickets from event Leviathan Ticketmaster from October 21, 1999 (DAVE, bro!) through October 19, 2011 (RADIOHEAD, bro!) you paid an Order Processing Fee. If so, you may be entitled to a taste of the recent settlement of a class action lawsuit against the company. Sure, Ticketmaster admits no wrongdoing, and the settlement only gives you a discount of $1.50 apiece for up to 17 future purchases, totaling around $11 million plus $16.5 million in legal costs. But at least they've learned their lesson: if they're going to make money off fees, they have to tell us about it. See? The system works. more ›

Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum went mostly off the grid for over a decade following the 1998 release of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, a move that may have made him even more of a legendary figure in the music scene, even if that wasn't the outcome he was going for. The mysterious musician would pop up now and again at his friend's shows over those years, eventually easing himself back into the public eye with his own smaller shows. Then last month he played at Town Hall. Mangum was noticeably uncomfortable in the venue, asking the house lights to be turned on and for the audience to sing along, in an effort to make the experience "more human." So it was somewhat surprising that he's going back on the road, announcing new tour dates. more ›

Earlier this week we reported that a city councilman was going to attempt to make ticket buying more fan friendly. Yesterday morning, councilman Dan Garodnick held the first hearing on what we'll call, for now, The Radiohead Law (since that band's concerts in New York last month are what inspired him). He Tweeted from the hearing yesterday, "One witness talks about the difficulty of getting Knicks tickets. Knicks games these days are trying enough!" more ›