A major phase of the Netherlands' ban on tourists patronizing coffee shops goes into effect in the country's southern provinces on May 1. Shops in Amsterdam are scheduled stop selling marijuana to foreigners on January 1, 2013. But enacting this ban ma... »
Stop calling Jennifer Lawrence fat, the MTA will replace old train cars (finally), Jane Fonda IS Nancy Reagan, jerks ruin an Easter egg hunt and more mid-day links. Follow Gothamist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories m... »
For the last three years, former Rosa Mexicano Culinary Director Roberto Santibañez has been keeping Park Slopers happy with his Mexican restaurant Fonda. Now he's hoping to do the same for Alphabet City with a second outpost. And this on... »
Today's end-of-links include a "fat" Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, Brooklyn is not Amsterdam, Cindy Crawford's 10-yr-old isn't modeling anymore, the "McStinkyN----r" receipt incident and more. Follow Gothamist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. Y... »
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is spreading across NYC with an almost Starbucksian appetite for expansion: the wildly popular LA-based chain has just opened its third location in Manhattan, on the corner of 79th Street and Columbus Avenue. This new outpost... »
On the eve of the second anniversary of the Christmas Day underwear bomber, a man who helped stop the would-be bomber before he could blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit is suing for $10 million. Theophilus Maranga, a Dutchess County resident, h... »
We prefer to mourn in solitude, and basically prefer everything in near-solitude due to a slight case of agoraphobia and premature elderliness, so we didn't make it over to the Bored To Death wake at the Brooklyn Inn last night. That doesn't mean we do... »
Come toast Bored To Death with Jonathan Ames, following HBO's decision to cancel it. [ more › ] »
Pickle lovers will be doing barrel rolls this Sunday at the first-ever Peck Slip Pickle Festival, hosted by the great artisanal New Amsterdam Market. This will be a celebration of "all things pickled, preserved, and fermented," with more than 20 additi... »
In July, a driver with a suspended license was quickly backing up on Amsterdam Avenue to score a parking space when he ran over two women crossing the street at West 98th Street. Yolanda Casal, 78, was pronounced dead at the hospital while the other wo... »
