 GothamList This Week: Fairy Tales, Puppies, Easter Eggs
Hello, we have decided to give our readers events for the entire week—which means we're folding in our GothamList newsletter into the Gothamist Daily. From now on, events will be included in the Monday edition of the newsletter, and this week, the picks include a fairy tales in burlesque, Pup Crawl across the Brooklyn Bridge, an Easter Egg hunt at Woodlawn Cemetery and more. [ VIEW NOW ] |
Police have arrested a LES man who allegedly confessed to stabbing his girlfriend to death this morning. Raul Barrera was charged with the murder of Sarah Coit early this morning in their apartment at 63 Clinton Street. Coit was allegedly trying to break up with him at the time. And neighbors say they could hear Coit screaming for help. "She was yelling ‘No, no, stop, stop, don’t hurt me!’... The cops were yelling, ‘Don’t look, don’t look!’ Her head was almost off, her neck was wide open," said Brianna Andalore, who was staying with a friend in the building. [ MORE]  | A new study from Cornell University graduate student Jenny Wan-chen Lee [pdf] either shows that the label "organic" creates some sort of placebo effect in which people are convinced they're eating healthier, or that people can be really stupid. Maybe it's a little of both? In her study, 144 volunteers were asked to compare "organic" and "regular" samples of yogurt, cookies and potato chips, rating them on taste, estimated fat content and estimated calorie content. However, all of the samples were in fact organic. Take a wild guess what happened.... [ MORE ] |  | Have you been sexually assaulted on the subway? Join the club. Though the NYPD says there are about 600 reported incidents of sexual assault on the subway a year, they estimate that the real number is in the thousands. NYPD Transit Bureau Chief James Hall told the Daily News, "In my mind, it's the No. 1 quality-of-life offense on the subway." Where does nail-clipping rank?... [ MORE ] |  | This old photo we stumbled upon makes us think there should be bocce courts under the BQE and elevated subways. Can you guess which year this photograph was taken (and where)? We'll update later with the answer and more details.... [ MORE ] |  | DUMBO is just so picturesque, isn't it? It's so photogenic, in fact, that Hollywood keeps coming back, much to the chagrin of residents. Because who wants to look out of their million dollar luxury converted warehouse condo window to see celebrities! Anyway, the Brooklyn Paper reports that the locals are getting restless, and want their streets back, saying "Hollywood couldn’t have picked a worse time to spotlight their hot area, what with chunks of Water Street blocked off to accommodate construction, street reconstruction and water main work."... [ MORE ] | | |
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