Streetfilms had five camera operators covering yesterday’s suspenseful rush hour race between a cyclist, driver and MTA commuter, and they’ve quickly edited together a video of the competition, which takes a bit of inspiration from Mike Figgis’s split-screen movie Time Code, sometimes showing the contestants battling it out simultaneously. And Streetsblog also points us to today’s New York Sun, which is reporting on a sudden bike shortage at shops around town. Some bike shop owners......

The 7th Annual “Great NYC Commuter Race” went down this morning, with three commuters racing to see who could get from Fort Greene to Union Square during rush hour in the least amount of time. Social worker Jamie Favaro traveled by bicycle; April Green, who works at an art foundation, took a foolish bus/subway combo; and photographer Emmanuel Fuentebella made irresponsible carbon footprints with his car. And like the story of John Henry, the......

A clash between teenagers in Fort Green has left a 16-year-old dead and a 17-year-old injured. The shooting took place around 6PM outside the Whitman-Ingersoll Houses on North Portland Avenue. A 16-year-old was confronted by three other people and shot in the neck and torso. He was pronounced dead at the hospital, while a 17-year-old, who was shot in the back and arm, is now in stable condition. It's unclear what caused the shooting. The......

EVENT: The American Opera Project has taken on...baseball? Tonight they present Baseball Through The Eye of the Artist. You'll catch some scenes from Daniel Sonenberg's opera-under-development The Summer King. And stick around for Bang The Drum Slowly, "the acclaimed 1973 baseball film that marked the beginning of Robert DeNiro's illustrious film career." Dusk // Fort Green Park Conservancy [Washington Park St, Brooklyn] // Free THEATER: Tonight the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater trundles through the Upper East......

Students at all NYC schools have a day off today in what is officially noted on the Dept. of Education's calendar as a Chancellor's Conference Day for Staff Development. That dry description actually masks the fact that today's day off from school is a tradition that dates back to 1829 and used to be one of the most widely celebrated holidays in Brooklyn and Queens. Dating back 178 years, Anniversary Day was a school holiday......

From beastly brisket sandwiches to Bruni-sanctioned shrines to pork, Brooklyn has established itself as a dining destination worthy of a restaurant week all its own. Now in its fourth year, Dine in Brooklyn (Monday, March 19, through Friday, March 30) offers an opportunity to sample nearly 200 of the borough’s best at $21.12 (honoring Brooklyn’s zip code, ‘112’) for three courses. Participating restaurants range from perennial favorite and harbinger of sustainable cookery Applewood to Park......

Brooklyn Ramblings pointed us to this great elevation map (PDF file) of the marathon route on the official marathon website. We all know that the Verrazzano Bridge is the highest point of the race, but that's early in the course. The bumps at 8 (around Fort Green where the courses combine), 16 (the Queensboro Bridge), and 24 (Central Park) are probably harder to summit. The Daily News looks at the crazy costumes worn during......

Breaking news: "Buying a Manhattan apartment is expensive!" A report released over the weekend puts the average price of a Manhattan apartment over $1 million, a number that is up 15.3% from $903,259 in 2003. Availability for apartments fell 23% in the last quarter of 2004, which can't help with prices. Some real estate types are saying that people's best bets for owning a place in the city lie in the Upper East Side (but......

Gothamist just love love loves that Halloween is around the corner because not only does it mean candy (candy!), it means seeing dogs wearing ridiculously cute outfits. We wanted to ask our dog-owning readers for the scoop on the NYC Halloween circuit this year. We know that Fort Green Pups has its Halloween event this Saturday (info here in PDF) and we think there's an event in Tompkins Square Park this Saturday as well.......

Holy hero: A man has been robbing multiple Subway sandwich shop locations, asking cashiers, "Do you want to die for Subway?" Clearly, they don't. The robber hit the Union Square Subway last Thursday afternoon, then three more in Manhattan on Saturday, two locations on Sunday - one in Manhattan, the other in Fort Green. One manager, when asked by the Daily News why Subways were being robbed, versus Quizno's or Blimpie, manager Narinder Singh said,......

The route for the Olympic torch relay in New York City has been announced and the torch, which will have had stops in L.A., Atlanta, and St. Louis before coming to NY, while be handed off at the start in Queens this Saturday. Mayor Bloomberg said: On June 19th, when the Olympic Torch leaves Athens Square Park and travels through New York City�s diverse and vibrant neighborhoods, it will be as if it were passing......