You know how when it rains and everyone takes out their umbrellas and the sidewalks become even more unbearable and some people even deign to carry those huge golf umbrellas? Well this new jacket could solve all of our rainy day problems. It will keep you dry, and as a bonus, will make you look sort of like Darth Vadar. Or the grim reaper. Or an extra in Harry Potter. Or maybe just someone who works in a meth lab. more ›

While the city is between rainfalls this morning, Gothamist would like to issue several reminders:
• First, the sidewalks of New York are not the beach. Please do not use your six-foot wide beach umbrellas in the rain.
• Second, though it pains shy New Yorkers to make eye contact, please do watch where you are going while using your umbrella.
• Third, your outerwear and preciously coiffed head will survive thirty seconds of rainfall. Please do not stop half-way up the subway stairs to open your umbrella, especially if it is a beach-sized umbrella. Stopping on the stairs only serves to dampen and annoy your fellow subway riders and impedes the otherwise orderly ingress and egress to our vast underground transportation network.