If you’re thinking about buying into the future Soho Mews condo but still unsure whether the “doorman, concierge and a curator” will be enough for you, the news in today’s Post might just be your tipping point. The under-construction condo, which is comprised of two buildings joined by a shared courtyard garden, has announced a partnership with Centovini, the Italian restaurant on West Houston, four blocks north from the condo on West Broadway, across from......

We love fine dining as much as the next gourmand, but there’s something about fancy French restaurants with their retinues of waiters, sommeliers, captains and bread sergeants that we find slightly offputting. Upon arriving at Last Thursday’s tasting of Vérité wines at Bouley we were in a bit of tizzy, not because of our issues surrounding Le/La/Les establishments, but due to our walking in some five minutes before vigneron Pierre Seillan’s speech ended. This......

Yesterday we headed to the 3rd Annual Art Parade, an event that manages to make West Broadway a little more colorful for an hour each year. The scene is one of surrealism and modern day statements. Almost doubling in size from its first year, the parade yesterday boasted about 800 contributors. The Village Voice has more on the history of the event, and one main difference this year was that the usual post-parade party on......

TIP: According to Paper's Mr. Mickey, Chloë Sevigny is having a tag sale on her block this Saturday. We're guessing there will be lots of vintage Balenciaga. Check out her apartment in House & Garden...pretty nice! EVENT: The Howl Festival (which took last year off) continues on throughout the weekend. Tomorrow around 2pm you can catch Moby with his band The Little Death in Tompkins Square Park. Check out the full schedule here. All Weekend......

Sure, September 8th may seem like it's ages away as we slowly sweat our way through the summer, but the Deitch Art Parade is just around the corner. Even though it's taking place on the aforementioned date, the deadline for submissions is July 20th. If you'd like to adorn West Broadway as a part of the parade, the Deitch site explains that "following the success of the past two Art Parades, artists, performers and designers......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a carjacking on 130th St. and 15th Ave. in Queens, an overturned auto on Spring St. and West Broadway in Manhattan, and a stabbing on Caton Ave. in Brooklyn. Remember when Paris Hilton forgot that she'd left her Tinkerbell with her grandma and papered her neighborhood with Lost Dog flyers? New Yorkers hire private detectives and publicists to get the job done right. A tiny dauchsund is missing. New......

Finally, we have two reasons to discuss Lost. First a warning: stop reading this if the show is still on your DVR, unwatched. In last night's season finale, Jack (in a flash forward/alternate universe/through the looking glass scene) sees an obituary in the newspaper and goes to a funeral home (stating he isn't family or a friend of the deceased). According to Lostpedia, the obituary Jack was reading said: "The body of Jo.. [unreadable] ..antham......

Aurora Soho -- This Williamsburg joint has made it across the bridge. Executive Chef Riccardo Buitoni of Piedmont, Italy, brings his Slow Food passion to Manhattanites with an Italian menu and wine list. You'll find some of the Williamsburg favorites on the menu, like 10-hour slow roasted pork belly, and burrata with shaved grey mullet bottarga and agrumato oil, but there are a few newcomers for the new location -- castelmagno cheese raviolini and baby......

THEATER: Biography is a largely forgotten 1932 comedy by S. N. Behrman, who wrote witty and flattering plays for high society. In the Pearl Theatre’s current revival, Carolyn McCormick (Law & Order) plays Marion Froude, a free-spirited, liberated lady in her 40s who draws heat when she decides to write a tell-all about her eccentric life. One of the colorful characters from her past who dreads the exposure is a U.S. Senate hopeful; sparks fly......

The Tribeca Film Festival is starting this Wednesday night, so you still have a few days to get your tickets and make dinner reservations. The New York Times gave a few local suggestions including Dennis Foy, Mai House, and Turks and Frogs. Cercle Rouge is offering a prix fixe, three-course menus for lunch ($19.95) and for dinner from 4 - 7 p.m. ($34.95), just for the occasion. Some of our other Tribeca favorites include Landmarc,......

Losing Something is a new play by theater and media group 3-Legged Dog (3LD), whose headquarters at 30 West Broadway were destroyed on 9/11. Their new space at 80 Greenwich Street is just three blocks from Ground Zero – a seemingly fitting spot in the shadow of no towers for their new multimedia meditation on loss. But this is not your grandmother’s multimedia; Losing Something utilizes a cutting edge technology called Eyeliner, invented in......

March 29: Best Cellars University at Pair of 8's Pair of 8's owner Ron Didner and new Chef Matthew Hamilton (formerly of Prune, Uovo, and Zuni Cafe, pictured at right) pair up with Best Cellars to host the first of this monthly series starting with Wine 101. Wine will be paired with five courses. $70 for a single class and $65 for two or more classes, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Call 212-362-8730 to register. 568......

We thought things were a little too quiet in the Busta camp. Yesterday a Manhattan judge took back her previous plea offer of no jail for his two outstanding assault arrests, stirring things up once again. According to the Post, he either has to go "to trial on the assaults or work out a new deal with prosecutors - who've already said they want him caged for six months." The judge, stating the court's previous......

We just discovered Greg Martin's wonderful drawings of Soho fire escapes. His site obsessively chronicles just about every one in the area bounded by Broadway, Houston, Canal, and West Broadway. A graduate of Columbia's MFA program, Martin also does a great polar bear. Good work! Update: Gothamist regular Ed Stern remixed one of the images-- amusing!......

EVENT: Talking Head David Bryne joins Elizabeth Diller, recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, for a talk about new tendencies and relationships between architecture and music. Christopher Janney moderates. More information here. Friday // 7 to 9pm // Center for Architecture [536 LaGuardia Place] // $15 THEATER: The 3 Legged Dog Art and Technology Center (3LD) saw its headquarters at 30 West Broadway destroyed on 9/11. They’ve since rebuilt a fantastic new space, which......

The Villager is reporting that the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation last week submitted a report calling for the creation of a South Village Historic District. Comprised of 38 blocks and about 800 buildings, it would be the city’s first tenement-based district. “Landmark designation of this area is one of the great pieces of unfinished preservation business for Greenwich Village and, indeed, for New York City as a whole,” said Andrew Berman, executive director......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a suspicious fire in Brooklyn Heights, an armed robbery on West Broadway, and a "fatal person struck by train" on the 6 line. Somehow a nurse in the Bronx made $93,581 in overtime pay in 2006, on a base salary of $50,187. That makes her the "overtime queen of state government." The dolphins that were happily frolicking off the Hamptons last week are in danger of dying if they......

Busta Rhymes surrendered to police last night for for beating his ex-driver. He was charged with assault in the third degree (a misdemeanor). He was expected to be held over night, but was only at the 1st Precinct station house from 7:30 to 11:30 pm. His ex-driver, Eddie Hatchett, says he was attacked in Busta's 84 West Broadway office while trying to collect 19 days worth of pay. An argument began and Busta attacked him.......

Stabby special today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a stabbing on West Broadway and Canal, another on Broadway and 67th, and another in the Rockaways. Take a look at this huge Brooklyn panorama-- taken from somewhere in the vicinity of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank. MOMA is expanding again! In five years they'll have taken over all of midtown. F Trainer gets the prize for most extensive photo coverage of The Revere Sugar Factory-- be sure......

- Grub Street reports that the Frying Pan rumors are true -- it will, in fact, be closing, at least at its current location. Their lease at Pier 63 has expired, but accoring to the owner's wife, there's no need for despair quite yet. "Pending recently commenced negotiations, the John J. Harvey fireboat, the Frying Pan, the kayak storage shed, and the recently opened Cafe du Soleil will tie up at Pier 66A, an old......

Terrifying: the entire lawn at Cadman Plaza has been astroturfed! [Via Brownstoner.] Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery in Staten Island, a suicidal member of service on the George Washington Bridge, and a perp search down by the Manhattan Bridge. Foreign tourists are bum-rushing New York because of the weak dollar: "For example, the Microsoft Zune player - a rival to Apple's iPod - sells for $442 in London but can be......

After over 200 hundred bone fragments have been found in recent searches for remains at the World Trade Center site, Mayor Bloomberg is expanding the search considerably. Here's the Mayor's press release about a report from the Despartment of Design and Construction:Although the report finds that the vast majority of the site had been thoroughly searched and is free of human remains, it recommends the continued excavations on the haul road where remains have been......

FILM: Going to movies can sometimes suck a lot of time and money out of you. Which is why we love film shorts. They cater to our attention span, and in this case - our wallet, too. “Made in NY Shorts,” is a whold bunch of shorts that'll leave you filled up like you'd just seen a feature length. 2:30pm // New York Public Library, Donnell Media Center [20 W 53rd St] //Free READING: Francine......

A totally creepy story in the Post about a man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a friend last Halloween. Medical resident Jason Jaramillo, his wife, and a friend went to a costume party the weekend before Halloween, and Jaramillo was dressed as Johnny Knoxville, his wife as a flower, and the female friend as Wonder Woman. At some point before dawn, Jaramillo, his wife, and the victim... left the party and went to an......

Julia Levy was on the scene for yesterday's Art Parade and filed this report: Even though it is September, it looked more like the Halloween Day Parade arrived early, but in Soho instead of the Village. The marchers down West Broadway from Houston to Grand Street were a part of the 2nd Annual Deitch Art Parade produced by Deitch Projects, Creative Time and PAPER magazine. Showcasing 75 "acts," the parade included artists, performers, designers,......

If you're going to be in Soho this afternoon - or you're interested in some public spectacle - go to West Broadway at Houston and see the Deitch Art Parade at 4PM. Expect wild and fun floats and performers. The parade will go from Houston to Grand Street, all along West Broadway. If you go, you can share your pictures with us by tagging them "gothamist" on Flickr. And check out this Flickr set......

Last night, there were two big three alarms fires in the city. NY1 reports that over 100 firefighters responded to the fires in Queens and SoHo. The Queens fire occured in Bayside, and "destroyed a furniture store that had been in business for 20 years, damaged a Carvel ice cream shop and gutted several apartments." The SoHo fire, was at West Broadway and Spring, the building where the Emporio Armani store is located. Reader......

Has anyone seen those disturbing Hep C posters around town? How about the Raconteurs cover art and accompanying posters, also hung around town? A reader just sent in these photos of both with the following questions... "Is the cover art for The Raconteurs "Broken Boy Soliders" really a cry for help? Or is it simply The Raconteurs way of supporting a public health campaign?" The two posters are hanging right next to each other......

We had a lunch date down at Lucky Strike yesterday, but unfortunately, they were closed for renovations. Instead, we went across the street to Felix, a bistro on the corner of Grand and West Broadway. BIG MISTAKE. No one told us, but Felix is the home of the most polluted glass of water in lower Manhattan. The picture above shows the second glass we received after sending back the first round-- note the grime......

Ooh, the Department of Consumer Affairs is going to allow "unenclosed cafes" to place nonpropane heaters - think sidewalk cafes! The Post gets confirmation from the DCA that they're looking to make the heaters legal, and this is good news, especially after reading the Steve Cuozzo's suggestions for sidewalk dining the other week and how restaurants jump at installing them, because they are the "cheapest real estate in Manhattan." Gothamist loves sidewalk dining - great......