In the Gothamist documentary above, we meet Dave, Bailey, Bucket, Jon, Mark, Tara, and Steve-O, a group of squatters who once lived in an unattended house in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. In June of this year, their landlord kicked them out and sold the building—you may have heard that the neighborhood is gentrifying—but before…
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Gothamist, for bringing us Kalan.
In your humid Thursday media column: ridiculous WaPo Twitter uproar of the day, everybody's needlessly peeved at Jose Antonio Vargas, Gothamist is sponsoring long-form journalism, an editor flees New York mag, and the Village Voice could have itself a strike.
The recent dumping of 20 inches of snow on New York City was a commuter's nightmare—also a filmmaker's paradise. Here's the moody, brilliantly-shot meditation on a buried city that's being called Oscar-worthy by no less than Roger Ebert.
Cablevision is said to have finally abandoned its acquisition of city-blog shop Gothamist. Entertainingly enough, Gothamist founder Jake Dobkin can reportedly blame his big mouth for scotching the deal.
Cablevision boss Jim Dolan has created such a PR trainwreck around his supposed acquisition of blog network Gothamist it's hard to imagine the deal ever closing. Dolan's bullying of a journalist may have already killed the shaky-looking deal.
We hear Cablevision's much-heralded acquisition of blog network Gothamist might be imploding. That would certainly help explain why Gothamist is trying to hire its own sales guy, a month after news of its supposed acquisition.
We now know the yearly value of a dick joke: $20,800. A company owned by Jimmy Dolan, Cablevision CEO and new owner of Gothamist, has pulled a $400/week ad from the Village Voice after it joked about his penis.
Our old weekend editor Foster Kamer made a joke about Cablevision CEO James Dolan shoving his penis down another man's throat. Now Cablevision is sending angry emails and assembling a legal team.
PaidContent says that the 14-city Gothamist network of blogs has been sold to Cablevision-owned Rainbow Media for $5-6 million. Founder Jake Dobkin can now talk trash about the New York Times from atop a solid gold fixie bike.
Just last month, Gothamist boss Jake Dobkin was slamming the New York Times as uncompetitive, unoriginal, and lazy. Today, the NYT has plastered Gothamist with the most in-your-face wallpaper ad buy we've ever seen. Huh. Let's recall that rant!
Renderings by Cook + Fox
Microfame expert Rex Sorgatz asks: "The second local version of HuffPo, NYC, launched last week. Will anyone read it?" I can say from personal experience: no. In other news, Gothamist is still very servicey. And pays their writers. [Fimoculous]
Torontoist folding. No money in Toronto. [Torontoist]
Photograph of Devils goalie Martin Brodeur shoving the Dallas Stars' Sean Avery by Rick Schultz/AP
Chris Ortloff, state parole board commissioner, was arrested for allegedly arranging to have sex with 11- and 12-year-old girls. The U.S. Attorney's office said Ortloff had been chatting with the girls' "mother" (an undercover state police investigator) online since June and arranged to meet the girls at an Albany…
After months—if not years—of rumors, British tabloid The Sun claims Madonna and Guy Ritchie are getting divorced. Apparently the couple will release a statement about the split because they "can’t bear to live with the pretence any longer." The source says, "Madonna wanted a highly stage-managed separation, with their…
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spent $3.5 million on advertising online in the first quarter of 2008, $3 million of which went to Google. Granted, Obama's done well in contributions from Googlers — as of Q4 2007, contributors who listed Google as their employer contributed $338,965 to the Obama…
Gothamist.com, the NYC news-about-town blog, today posted a straightforward item about a 19-year-old woman who was raped in her apartment building in Soho last night. They described the suspect: "a black man, about 5'8" and 200 pounds, with a possibly pockmarked face, and he may be between 20-30 years old." Now, we…
