The Health Department has released their annual report on baby names in New York City, and among newborn boys the name "Jayden" is (almost) number one with a bullet, ranking #2 overall and #1 among black and Hispanic babies. Jayden wasn't even in the top ten in 2006, and baby name expert Laura Wattenberg shares a theory with City Room about the his stunning rise in popularity: Two years ago, one Jayden James Federline entered......

Photo via A Fine Blog. Something was lost in translation when a Turkish shop owner went to name his market on 84th and York Avenue. A Fine Blog reports that "he believed that it was something positive that he was saying...like 'not bad.'" U Don't Know Nothing Produce is a much more inspired name than Not Bad Produce, however, so maybe this was a happy accident after all.......

Galapagos officially changed hands earlier this year, with Matt Roff & Co. now at the helm. With the Galapagos name moving to DUMBO and the artspace under new ownership, there was a contest to name the 70 N 6th Street space (after briefly working under the name Natural Selection). Well, they've finally come to a decision (drum roll please): Public Assembly. Roff tells us that they'll also be holding the official after parties for the......

Matt Roff & Co. decided not to name their new venue Natural Selection after all...so as Galapagos moves to DUMBO, the space is going to need a moniker that'll stick. And now the naming duties have been handed down to you with their Name Our Space contest. If you win, you'll get to christen the place with a $1000 bar tab (that's like 160 drinks), and you'll get free admission, along with a guest, for......

Rendering of the forthcoming Schwarzman inscription designed by Pentagram Earlier this week, the Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously agreed to allow the main branch of the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street to inscribe the name of a prominent donor, financier Stephen A. Schwarzman, multiple times on the library facade. The fabulously wealthy son of a grocer and co-founder of the Blackstone Group will have his name inscribed five times on the......