DISCUSSION: Is New York losing it's New York charm? Tonight contributors to the new tome "The Suburbanization of New York" will talk about just that (and is conveniently located down the street from H&M and Pottery Barn). The panel includes Marshall Berman, Eric Darton, Francis Morrone, Matthew Schuerman, Neil Smith, Michael Sorkin, and Suzanne Wasserman. 6:30pm // The Gotham Center at the CUNY Graduate Center [Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Ave] // Free EVENT: This......

Last night, Gothamist threw our mail on the table and ignored it while we made some Very Important Calls (to discuss the impending panda pregnancy - twins! - in San Diego, the newborn panda in DC, and tiger cubs nursing on sows). And the next thing we realized was that we had been staring at Mayor Bloomberg's face for five minutes - AUGH! It was his reelection flyer, and let's talk about a Photoshop......

Shoppers descended onto the Time Warner Center shops like vultures to a rotting carcass or fashionistas to a sample sale. Forgoing Gothamist's idea of slapping a glass roof over SoHo and calling it a mall (Banana Republic, Pottery Barn, Coach), developers at the Time Warner Center decided that walking around in circles indoors around well-known stores was better than walking on the city streets and discovering new shops. One city dwelling shopper told the Post,......