Times Square Shuffle, by ShhPeKo at flickrToday on the Gothamist Newsmap: shots fired and a large crowd at 98th St. and Rockaway Blvd. in Queens, a carjacking on Ave. Y and Nostrand Ave. in Brooklyn, and an overturned auto on 28th St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan. The New York Post continues to discover the brave new world of "twisted sex play," commonly known as BDSM. The gentrification of Harlem is colorblind, to the......

ART: Come help open up the new Chelsea gallery, Honey Space, tonight. Check out their inaugural exhibition whilst you nosh on fondue. The space is unique in that it will present "regular programming of site-specific installations and special events...and during normal daytime hours, the space will be open to the public, and unmonitored." Suggested attire for the evening is red (well that's not very creative!). 6pm to midnight // Honey Space [148 11th Ave]......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck at 186th St. and Amsterdam in Manhattan, a child was struck and killed by a car on 130th Ave. and Springfield Blvd. in Queens, and a pedestrian was struck by a Bobcat (motorized work vehicle) on Monroe St. and Catherine Slip in Manhattan. Ironic Sans examines the new animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and finds specific references to it taking place in NYC, but a......

Everyone in this city either has a story about the noisy neighbor, or is the noisy neighbor, whether you know it or not. Ironic Sans tells the story of living above a complain-happy neighbor in Astoria, fond of leaving notes. "One night, I came home to find the first in a series of notes slipped under my door. Small writing filled both sides of a sheet of loose leaf paper. I didn’t know what to......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: barricaded EDP in Brooklyn Heights, person on the tracks at 4th Avenue in Park Slope, and a police car MVA in Williamsburg. Our frenemies at Gawker started a weekend edition. Thank God-- we thought we were going to have to wait until Monday to hear about a bald Britney Spears. Worst Boss Ever: Dr. Bartha's assistant, nearly flattened in the Upper East Side explosion, is suing his estate for......

We must applaud David at Ironic Sans of his near Herculean-effort of documenting basically every ad in Times Square. He had the "dangerous" thought, "I wonder what it would look like to see every ad in Times Square all on one page," and came up with hundreds of ads - and some signs as well - that blare out to everyone. The damage? Twenty minutes to shoot the photographs, 2-3 hours to crop them,......

-- We went down to Williamsburg and took a panorama of the Banksy wall, in case you want to see the whole piece. -- "Yes, I know I have a nice ass." -- The city has spruced up the 9-11 temporary morgue tent outside the medical examiner's office on East 29th Street. The tent stores the 13,790 human remains that have yet to be identified (accounting for about 1,151 people, or 42% of the......

Hey, have y'all been using our new "Recommend this" feature at the bottom of each post? This week we're bringing you the "Most Recommended" posts from across the -ist world, as well as recommending some of our own. Phillyist thinks that readers recommended this post the most because "most of our quieter readers (probably) agree with us that rude commenting sucks." Know what else sucks? Philly's not getting the Olympics, but they are getting thinner.......

-- You know who really hates bikers? Steve Dunleavy. -- Ironic Sans gets creative with the Gothamist logo-- the bedrockist and simcityist are hilari-ist. -- Law & Order: Overheard in New York Division. -- Speaking of crime and punishment, Peter Braunstein goes to trial on the 20th. -- Those crazy cats at the Graffiti Research Lab have invented a special pole for doing huge pieces-- it's nutty! -- While we're on the subject, check......

- It's official: Eliot Spitzer is the Democratic candidate for NY Governor this fall - Ironic Sans looks at The Critic's animated Manhattan - The transit worker caught sleeping on the job by cameraphone was fired! - Bees attack Park Slope restaurant; no word on whether Winnie the Pooh's hunny pot or Max Fischer was found on the scene - A teenager managed to save her siblings from a Brooklyn house fire but not......

For anyone who was in New York on September 11th, 2001, the memories are still uncomfortably vivid. If you weren't here, however, you might want to check out Ironic Sans' 9-11 Pictures in 3D. David Friedman created the images, and sent them along to us with a note: "you may have seen other 3D photos of Ground Zero before, but these are brand new, converted from a 2D Coast Guard helicopter video I found......

The blog Ironic Sans is going through different animated films or TV shows that show Manhattan and analyzing how they portray the city. It's really great, and so far, there are entries on Fritz the Cat, Antz, Sundae in New York, The Simpsons: The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson, Tom & Jerry: Mouse in Manhattan, Family Guy, and the Rhapsody in Blue segment in Fantasia 2000. Ironic Sans' David says he has a......

You know it is Friday afternoon when... you find yourself sitting at your desk completely captivated by Ironic Sans' "60 Seconds in the Life of" series. For instance, we just lost a good, oh, 60 seconds of our life watching the below video of people getting on and off of the escalators at the Times Warner Center... And y'know what? We're totally OK with that. In fact we liked it enough that we then watched......