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If you've been walking around the neighborhood today, you've probably noticed those articulated city buses stranded along Houston Street and Bowery. Jeanne Wilke of Downtown Independent Democrats sent us this photo -- evidence of bus mayhem!  When she was...

More opening/closing news - food, drink and shopping edition: Fontana's will be open by 3pm.  Free Wifi.  Serving Hot Chocolate, coffee and Hot toddies! Moo Shoes on Orchard hopes to be open by 1 or 2pm. Babycakes is closed. Roni-Sue's Chocolates is closed. Berkli...

Bicycle blues -- Ludlow & Delancey.  Thanks to Jennifer Strom for this one.

Thanks to Florence Eng, who noticed this city bus having more than a little trouble near 3rd Street and Avenue A.

As you might have guessed, alternate side parking rules are suspended today and you don't need to worry about feeding those parking meters! Early snow total reports: around 15-20 inches. What's opened and closed? Here's a first look: Chinese Planning...

This morning the Red Cross is helping residents of a tenement building on East Broadway find temporary housing, after an overnight fire forced them to evacuate from the roof.  The Daily News reports a wolverine was killed in the...

Seward Park Co-op Fire 2 from cmerry on Vimeo. Last night there was a fire in an 18th floor apartment of the Seward Park Cooperative on Grand Street (it was in 268 East Broadway/near Montgomery). Resident C Merry reports...

DNA Info reports: A student and a nurse from Marta Valle High School were taken to the hospital as a precaution, after a laboratory chemical spill.  The incident happened this morning inside the school, at the corner of Norfolk...

Just back from 2nd Street and 2nd Avenue, where Police Commissioner Ray Kelly recounted the bizarre chain of events that led to the recovery of eight sticks of C4 explosives from the historic Marble Cemetery.   As helicopters hovered overhead,...

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has just briefed the press -- from 2nd Avenue, near the Marble Cemetery. As we've been reporting, several explosive blocks of C4 were found in the cemetery earlier today. In May of 2009, he said, ...