http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute en-us Reader-submitted tips http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2106241 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 Teany suffered a fire and is currently closed down. http://www.ecorazzi.com/2009/06/23/mobys-nyc-vegan-restaurant-teany-gets-destroyed-in-fire/ http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2093031 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 Boat lost power as it was coming in. 10 injuries so far (minor) http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2092941 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 URGENT — Emergency services are responding to the Staten Island Ferry after it crashed into a dock at the St. George Ferry Terminal in NY. http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2086421 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 Woman dies falling down stairs at Zarin (as in Jill Zarin of NYC housewives fame) fabric store. http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2079081 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 a cop traveling north on ave D in Manhattan hit a car at 5th street. The cop car went up onto the sidewalk and hit a few pedestrians and my apt building. NY1 is outside along with the networks. http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2068881 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 i think i just heard gunshots outside, 12 or 13 of them. i live in fort greene across the street from the walt whitman projects. anyone else hear this? there were a lot of banging noises a few minutes earlier, but people were talking and laughing, and now it’s completely silent outside. i counted the number of gunshots because there are always loud explosion-like noises around here late at night, but just a couple days ago my neighbor was telling us how he’d heard the sounds of someone emptying a clip outside maybe a month ago. 12 or 13 seems pretty close to whatever number of bullets he said a clip contains. he also said he called the police to report it, and they never came—even though the nearest precinct is less than a block away. http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2068371 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/city-hall-art-project-sets-off-a-rolling-of-the-eyes/ So I look at this and I think a few things. 1) Fairy tale 2) The three little pigs 3) Guard booths at City Hall staffed full-time by NYPD officers 4) Richard Woods pulled one on the Public Art Fund I’m not sure if that connection is intentional or not, but this project could’ve been done anywhere in the five boroughs - why on the police booths at City Hall? I’m all for public art and whimsy, but I personally find this to be incredibly insensitive to the officers who staff those booths. I don’t think you’ve written about this yet, but I think it’s an interesting take on it that none of the other articles I’ve seen about it have touched on. Run with it. Enjoy! http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2067091 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 the all hands in crown heights at 6:09 was at franklin & park place, not classon http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2057411 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 An NYU anthropologist has video of a really interesting (and gross) experiment on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wny7KPNtKnE http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2041301 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 update on 9th avenue suv-cyclist road rage: http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/06/25/meet-the-alleged-road-rage-thug-of-ninth-avenue-gus-gonzalez/ http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2032571 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 Reps. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn) and (D-Mass.) have asked Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax lending standards for condos. It’s no coincidence that both of them have a shit-ton of empty new condo developments built just at the peak of the speculation bubble. http://is.gd/1cnRx http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2030871 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 ece raining. http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2026021 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 There is a post on Lux Living about Stuyvesant Town Security (212 598-5233) sropping residents from taking photos of the property. I just piut in a call to Security who confirmed that we are indeed, not allowed to take photos OF THE PROPERTY. http://stuytownluxliving.com/2009/06/new-rule-says-no-photos-of-the-stuy.html http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2024851 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 What the heck is going on at 59th street today? I smelled smoke and saw serious residual train delays on my way from 125 on the a-d-b-c line. I was TOLD of 59th being closed down earlier, smoke everywhere, and police evacuations of passengers, etc. wtf? http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2021251 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 The increase for one-year lease renewals in buildings that provide heat will now go up three percent, while two-year renewals will go up six percent. For tenants who’ve lived in building for six or more years, the increase will be either $30 or $60, whichever is more. http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#2008511 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 I live in Ft/ greene and it’ s also worth noting that my building has been shaking MUCH more after the 2 lane expansion on the BQE one block away. Has anyone investigated the effect that this expansion may have or is having on the surrounding buildings? http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1995521 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 Steve Jobs had a secret liver transplant two months ago in Tennessee! http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1982941 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 The Coney Island bound F train was just pulling out of Bergen Street when it stopped for a few minutes. The they evacuated the train and the first few cars had to walk to the back of the train to exit out of the cars that were still at the platform. Then a bunch of cops and detectives and a police dog came…cops were yelling to each other about a “witness” and somebody or something getting hit…then the train pulled away and when the next train came we all piled on and went home. Does anyone know what happened? http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1981571 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 A new carbon counter was installed near MSG today. http://www.cnbc.com/id/31427315 http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1979161 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 FYI, 4,5,6, trains are not stopping at 59th st. MTA website says signal problems. it’s not. the station is filling up with water from a manhole cover on the platform. http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1978721 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 council candidate Margaret chin’s position on the grand street bike lane : http://tr.im/oIeT http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1971771 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 PETA protests Obama killing a fly during White House interview: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/us/politics/18fly.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1971161 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 tattoo nightmare! tattoos on face http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1969671 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 I want to report someone. I was on my way to the train station around 4:35am and around the corner of 66th ave and queens blvd(rego park), a burgundy old squarish car was double parked. As soon as I passed the car I noticed him pull away and drive past me and stopped at the end of 67th ave and queens blvd. Near CVS drugstore. Once I got near that car, I noticed the light in the car was lit. I looked inside was a white man with a blue or black baseball cap flashing and waving his private parts at me and smiling. Unfortunately, it was dark and I was alone and afraid to stop and take his picture. I think he lives in that area. Please post this so that all single women in that area knows that there’s someone like that in the neighborhood. If this is not the correct place for me to send this pls let me know where I can send this to. Thank you. http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1959151 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 The brother of actor Mia Farrow has been found dead in his art gallery in Castleton, Vermont, in what US police say were suspicious circumstances. http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1956961 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 With regards to the pedicab accident in Williamsburg. I had just turned the corner off of Broadway and onto Bedford av when the pedicab emerged from the foot pass about 10 feet in front of me at what looked like full unrestricted speed, a yellow cab zoomed past on the avenue and seem to just clear past the pedicab, someone on the pedicab yelled Whoo…, the pedicab seem to stop dead in the middle of Bedford av, flip up and over about 6 feet in the air projecting the female passenger clear across the rest of the street ant the sidewalk and onto the fence. One passenger seem to roll off to the side and was immediately on his feet the other two were laid out under the turned over pedicab. Speed seemed to be the object of that ride. The pedicab was coming down so fast that there was no way it could have stopped before it hit the opposite curb and the fence across the avenue. At the time I did not think the Taxi and the pedicab touched but rather that the pedicab flipped on its own but in such a short instant it would be impossible to tel. That night on my way home I actually searched the middle of the street for a pot hole or a crack that could have caused the pedicab to flip. What I did find was a fresh scrape in the street probably where the broken back half of the cab hit the street and caused it to flip I take that path on my bike several time a day had it not been raining I would have been climbing up that path as the pedicab was coming down. I usually ride down the path on my way home as fast as I can hitting the break at the last minute before I get to Bedford av. I am going to be a little more careful and would recommend a little more caution and mutual respect from all of us riders. http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1950331 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 Funny comic about people wearing scrubs on the NYC subway: http://dustinland.com/archives/archives387.html http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1939971 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 BLACK BETTY CLOSING TONIGHT. It would be great if you guys could announce that this is the LAST NIGHT for Black Betty in Williamsburg. http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/06/williamsburg_ba.html http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1915002 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 A conductor just delivered a baby girl on the R train! Eyewitness & photo: http://twitter.com/jorgej/statuses/2119705444 http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1898172 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 New Yankee Stadium dimensions are the likely cause of home run surge: http://www.nypost.com/seven/06092009/sports/yankees/report__new_size_of_yankee_stadium_causi_173393.htm http://mapscroll.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-homers-will-be-hit-at-new-yankee.html http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1886102 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 AccuWeather: Areas from the northern Plains into the Northeast will have a “year without a summer.” http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=netweather&traveler=0&zipChg=1&article=9 http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1883942 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 Just walking home and had to step aside as 2 cops with guns aimed ran after 1 perp at 115th and 7th… Incident seems to have started there and continued down 116th towards Lenox. Happened at approx 6:30pm. http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1883742 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 Anyone smell maple syrup? http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1882022 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 BREAKING: Two Democrats switch to GOP, giving Republicans control of State Senate. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/revolt-could-imperil-democratic-control-of-senate/index.html?hp http://www.Gothamist.com/labs/contribute/#1881952 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:16:36 -0500 Daniel McGowan was born and raised in NYC. NYC activist in US Gitmo