Two weeks ago, our friends over at Bostonist posted a very scary map plotting more than 50 Dunkin Donuts locations within a five-mile radius of their city’s Downtown Crossing. The actual number of New York Dunkin Donuts locations, parameters widened to include Port Authority based kiosks and airport locations, is likely to be more than a baker’s dozen for any given five mile radius. So yeah, sure, it seems America runs on Dunkin and all......

Some love it to the point of being freakishly cultish. Others don't see what the big deal is. But everyone can agree on one thing: you can do plenty of productive things with the time you spend waiting on line to get a burger at Shake Shack. We checked in hamburger expert Adam Kuban of A Hamburger Today, who wrote last week, "Ai yah. It hasn't even opened yet, I'm already getting sick of......

The city may be fighting a war on trans-fats but Google's NYC cafeteria might as well be Switzerland from the looks of some photographs of what's being served up. Today, a Bacon Krispy Kreme Burger (whose sign also says "wrong on so many levels") was on the menu. Not only is the Krispy Kreme bun grilled, but the burger had cheese, too. Someone who actually had the burger told us, "It tasted like a......

Despite the fact that New York spends nearly $13,000 per public school student per year, the highest in the nation along with Jersey, those same students are consistently ranking in the bottom five for all fifty states. "In New York, it seems, the money isn't making its way to the teachers. In the last decade, teachers in the state saw average salary decrease 5 percent when adjusted for inflation, according to the National Education......

Peeking through the windows in a space on 8th Street just East of University Place in Greenwich Village that once housed a Krispy Kreme, we saw a sleek, minimalist, modern looking space with long, narrow tables designed for communal eating. We looked a little more closely and saw a few more things that clued us in -- a menu filled with pan-Asian dishes, from Thai to Laotian, to Malaysian, and more, and a sign......

To make us laugh a little today: The NY Times New York Region > For the Mayor, a Quiet Day of Cookies and Ballots" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/nyregion/03cookies.html">followed the Mayor on the morn of Election Day, and titled their article, "For the Mayor, a Quiet Day of cookies and Ballots." Yes, our mayor had a jampacked day of voting and noshing:As the mayor strolled up to his polling site, Public School 6 on East 81st Street between Park......

While many people start dreaming of turkey with all the trimmings once the weather gets crisper, residents of the Parkchester area of the Bronx are pretty anti-turkey these days, due to a smoked turkey plant's almost noxious fumes. Both the NY Times and the AP note how finally the City is urging an evironmental agency to close down the LSK Smoked Turkey Products plant. LSK had been asked to work on its filtration systems, but......

This time next week, the Republican National Convention will have started and the 250,000 protesters will have protested not in Central Park but on the West Side Highway. Mayor Bloomberg brilliantly said that if a West Side Jets stadium were built, then protesters could go there! Clever - now can we see your time machine, Bloomby? We know you have one some where. Here are a few more Convention related links: - New Yorkers keep......

The mega-chain that carb warriors hate to love, Krispy Kreme, has just announced the release of an intriguing new line of frozen beverages. The one that caught Gothamist's eye is the new "Frozen Original Kreme", which is described on the Krispy Kreme website thus: Our signature taste, which defines our Original Glazed doughnuts, is captured in a creamy, frozen blend. This drink is rich with just the right balance of flavor and sweetness. Add coffee......

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On glorious days like this, Gothamist will think about ice cream (ice cream is also a topic for thought on crummy days, but that's another story for another time). A friend mentioned a new ice creamery that opened up in the West Village, called Mary's Dairy and suggested we check it out. Then, wouldn't you know it, New York magazine writes about it. While New York focused on the flavors like White Callebaut Chocolate and......

Reasons why Gothamist is sad to have missed Chris Rock's comedy show (playing through early next week, but sold out, natch, at MSG), after reading Kelefa Sanneh's review : – "If you're black, America is like the uncle that paid your way through college but molested you." – On Roy Horn being mauled: "That tiger didn't go crazy. That tiger went tiger." – Krispy Kreme donuts' secret ingredient: crack Chris Rock and the Weitz Brothers'......