Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network." It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

Ooh - the Observer looks at how New York City will convince the Democratic National Committee to hold the 2008 Convention here. We pieced together their itinerary from the article, and clearly, the mayor misses having the International Olympic Committee to woo. :Today - Check into Ritz Carlton (Central Park South, we assume) tongiht - Hansom cab ride through Central Park - Dinner at Mayor Bloomberg's townhouse Thursday - Breakfast at Gracie Mansion - Tour......

This is a dis on a grand scale (to NYC tourism, at least). Or it's a blessing in disguise. The U.S. Olympic Committee is not visiting New York City when it visits potential cities for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Cities the USOC is visiting: Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. One could say that the USOC already visited NYC before it selected it to be the 2012 US Olympic city bid, but, hey,......

Could it be that the city would really attempt to bring the Olympics to NYC for 2016? Gothamist supposes that means the city has about 2 years to find another site to put a huge stadium on, so politicians, community groups, and everyday Joes and Janes can complain about it. We suggest somewhere slightly more innocuous but still controversial - like Inwood or something. Roland Betts, who had a hand in the city's bid (and......

Did you know that New York has one of the top floorball teams in the world? Okay, maybe not-- let's start with an easier question: did you know that floorball exists? It does-- as this very informative website for NYC Floorball explains: Floorball is one of the fastest growing sports in North America. It started as a recreational alternative to ice hockey and floor hockey in Sweden during the 1970s. It is played with......

So, Boston native Matt Damon got married to his fiance, Miami resident Luciana Bozan, on Friday morning at City Hall - and Mayor Bloomberg was present. Damon and Bozan were able to bypass the Municipal Building wedding. We thought, "Why would Mayor Bloomberg attend the wedding?" Is it because Damon is filming a movie in NYC? Or because Damon is from Boston, the Mayor's original haunt? Or, perhaps, it's a returned favor, after Damon attended......

As the Mayor, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff and the NYC 2012 bid committee lick their wounds and the rest of the city breathes a sigh of relief, as after being dinged in the second round of Olympic voting for a 2012 site, the Mayor admits that the NYC bid "was a long shot," as the NY Times puts it. Mayor Bloomberg also called the bid "a unique opportunity" that helped NYC in many ways, from......

...though not necessarily together. The International Olympic Committee has granted the NYC 2012 bid permission to alter and amend its proposal, given the extraordinary circumstances of, um, submitting a plan that won't have its cornerstone - the West Side Stadium. Even for NYC 2012 big organizers, it's unclear what the other options for a stadium would be (Shea Stadium? Something else in Queens?), which makes any scrambling sound like a last gasp effort to make......

We've received a lot of email from you asking what happened to the Metronome, the art installation on the face of 1 Union Square. Indeed, it seems that about the time we explained how the clock embedded in the art installation told time, that the clock decided to start telling time in a different way. Coincidence? Maybe not. The Times explains that the clock is now counting down to July 6th, which is the day......

The sound of many packets of Zantac being opened you hear is the sound coming from the NYC 2012 Olympic bid team. The International Olympic Committee is reviewing the NYC - and London - bids to see if, as the NY Times puts it, organizers "overstepped ethical bounds by making late offers of financial incentives to athletes and sports federations involved in the 2012 Games." Dunh dunh dunh! The Mayor, along with others on the......

Filing a lawsuit against the MTA is like the thing to do! The biggest transit union filed a suit saying the West Side railyards bidding should be reopened because the MTA perhaps didn't get enough money out of it. And the Straphangers Campaign and Tri-State Transportation Campaign, plus the NY chapter of Common Cause, are joining the suit. While it sucks to be MTA Chairman Kalikow (or NYC Transit President Reuter), Gothamist imagines that the......

Mayor Bloomberg really wants construction on the Jets Stadium (aka the NY Sports and Convention Center) to start by the spring on the West Side, to better help NYC's chances of landing the Olympics, not to mention resolve the whole West Side development thing. Even though the Mayor said he might might might consider developing in Queens, Mayor Bling emphasized that having the stadium and a new convention center together (in Manhattan) would be the......

After four days in New York, the International Olympic Committee's evaluation panel has finally left. Now, all New York can do is to wait for the I.O.C.'s vote on the 2012 Olympics on July 6th. It seems as though they depart with a favorable impression of New York City and the bid for 2012. And why wouldn't they? Dan Doctoroff, the deputy mayor and the head of NYC2012, Mayor Bloomberg, and the members of NYC2012......

Sunday begins a 4-day NYC visit from representatives of the International Olympic Committee, who the city will try to razzle and dazzle in the hopes of being tapped for the 2012 Olympic Games. As part of their welcome, the Observer reports that committee members will be taken up to Central Park for a look at members of the Road Runners club racing through "The Gates," will dine at the Bloomberg mansion, and will ride in......

Well, it looks like the Olympics coming to New York has a slightly better chance of happening. In a December meeting with European sporting officials, Mayor Bloomberg apparently knocked their socks off. In his estimates NYC 2012 is in a tie with Paris. The NY Times writes: By the end, even people from cities competing for the Olympic bid were describing him as charismatic and charming. Charismatic and charming?!? We never knew, Mr. Mayor. Then......

Two lawsuits were filed in State Supreme Court yesterday in an attempt to slow the proposed plan for a West Side Stadium. While the arguments in each lawsuit differ, the goal is the same, to slow down the stadium proposal enough so that the 2012 Olympic announcement would come first. The idea is that the International Olympic Committee would reward the 2012 Games to Paris on July 6th and not New York, thus making the......

The details of Monday's final submission by New York City to the International Olympic Committee were released yesterday with some interesting details. Deputy Mayor, and NYC2012 founder, Daniel Doctoroff said the Olympics will bring $7.6 billion in capital projects, cost $2.8 billion to run, but not cause any tax increases. Of course, the plan depends on a new West Side Stadium for the Jets that would set the city and state back a cool $600......

Controversy or not, the final bid for New York City's bid for the 2012 Olympics is in. The 600 page proposal covers every detail of the City's bid and is due to the International Olympic Committee on Monday. The bid, which has events all over NYC, including Fresh Kills landfill as a mountain bike site, is not without controversy. It hinges on the new West Side stadium for the Jets which would serve as the......

For New York to realize its Olympic dreams in 2012, NYC2012 is looking to divide European votes and curry favor with the governing bodies for different sports. Despite coming in fourth in an analysis by of the five competing cities competing for the 2012 Games, insiders say New York may only trail Paris now. According to Mayor Bloomberg, the plan for NYC2012 depends on the construction of a stadium for the Jets and construction on......

Embattled Brooklyn apartment dwellers have taken their fight against the proposed site of the new arena for the "Brooklyn Nets" all the way to Athens. A group called Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn unveiled a banner on one of the endangered apartments which reads "Dr. Rogge and the International Olympic Committee, Please Don't Destroy Our Homes." If New York City is awarded the Olympic Games in 2012, the proposed basketball arena would be used to......

With the International Olympic Committee on the brink of announcing which cities are finalists in competing for the 2012 Olympic Games, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff is under the spotlight, as NYC 2012, NYC's bid for the games, was his brainchild. The Times profiled Doctoroff yesterday, giving him credit for "outlining" Mayor Bloomberg's plans for Lower Manhattan as well as for developing downtown Brookly and "rezoning of industrial Williamsburg for housing development," leading many to wonder......