If you're one of those people that think the FBI has better things to do than investigate Roger Clemens, you have an ally in Washington DC. Congressman Anthony Weiner voiced his opinion on the investigation into Clemens. Weiner sent a letter to the Attorney General questioning the benefit of continuing the investigation into Clemens’ testimony to Congress, saying "Whether or not Roger Clemens may have committed perjury should not compete with real national security threats......

A Brookings Institution study reveals that New York is a great place for walking, with 21 out of 21 walkable urban places. But Washington D.C. is the most walkable on a per capita basis while New York is ranked 10th, because New York is measured as the NYC metro area, including NJ, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The study's author, Christopher B. Leinberger, admits there are issues with the methodology, namely that walkable places are weighted the......

Matthew Houck is the man behind Phosphorescent -- and the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Athens, Georgia musician just put out his third release, Pride, to many eager ears and much fanfare. Playing every instrument on the atmospherock avant-pop album, he also recruited some friends to help along the way, such as the Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth. On the periphery you can hear Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Will Oldham -- but the modern day folkie has a sound all......

For an avowed non-presidential candidate, Mayor Bloomberg certainly gets more attention than some of the actual candidates. Newsweek devotes its cover story to "Mike" Bloomberg, "The Billion Dollar Wild Card," a reference to the billion dollars Mayor B has at his disposal, should be decide to run for president next year. That is so much more flattering than the "Lazy Like a Fox" cover Newsweek had of Fred Thompson! Newsweek editor-in-chief Jon Meacham got to......

New York's Healing Field is currently residing at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn (until tomorrow). It's comprised of 3,000 3x5 foot flags that are standing 8 feet tall. Here's GerritsenBeach.net's glimpse at what it looks like: There are smaller memorial fields currently located in Washington DC, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The first was in Sandy, Utah in 2002.......

As Americans continue their race slow, labored walk towards larger and larger coffins, New Yorkers are not far behind. According to a study published yesterday by the Trust for America’s Health, obesity rates rose in 31 U.S. States last year including New York where 22.4% of adults are obese – up by 0.7% from 2005. New York State is tied for 38th place with New Hampshire while Mississippi can boast the widest waistlines, becoming the......

Now making picnics better for mankind: ants, no; algorithms, yes. Instead of people bringing computers to dinner, a man named Conrad Barski hopes that computers will soon be bringing people to picnics. Enter Picnic Mob, a multi-city, “non-commercial art experiment” created and curated by the computer programmer and thinker. Through its website, Picnic Mob organizes aspiring picnickers into small groups based on similarly reported interests and dispositions; those groups are then fitted cohesively into......

The Daily News has an exclusive with Jan Gehl, the Danish architect the Department of Transportation would like to hire to help reduce congestion in the city. It's a nice introduction to Gehl, who has worked on congestion-reducing projects in London and Copenhagen, but it also seems like the perfect article to fire up passions. Gehl said, "...we can do is to reduce the number of parking spots. I would raise the price for......

While there are many trials in NYC that quickly become media circuses, we're breathless about an insane lawsuit that has gone to trial in Washington DC because it involves a service very familiar to New Yorkers. An administrative law judge Roy Pearson is suing his dry cleaners for millions of dollars after they lost his pants (he says; they say they have his pants, but he just doesn't want to claim them). Pearson originally tried......

One couple who got married this weekend had a leg up on many other brides and grooms: They know event planning. As Lauren Berger and Stuart Ruderfer's NY Times wedding announcement explains, Berger works for NYC Big Events, a city agency that works on landing and promoting high-profile events, while Ruderfer is the founder and CEO of Civic Entertainment Group, which creates marketing opportunities and events. And they met when Berger worked at Civic......

A huge winter storm, another in a series of late-winter Alberta Clippers, that's dumped more than a foot of heavy, wet snow on the Midwest is headed our way tonight. We won't get a foot of snow here, but it is likely we'll have a bad case of Valentine's Day storm deja vu. The complex beast of a storm is currently centered over Iowa, but energy from that storm is kicking up a secondary low......

Yesterday's stormy weather brought many transportation delays that will lead to some delays today as well. WABC 7 reported that many passengers leaving via JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark airports had waited 13-14 hours before heading to hotels. Today, JFK and Newark should be able to get their delayed passengers out, but given the small space that LaGuardia has, passengers are more likely to wait for their flights to even come in. It makes talk of......

The equation above is a highly unscientific observation based on the U.S. Department of Transportation's monthly report. Apparently, 25 of the 50 most frequently delayed flights involved JFK and Comair in September. The AP says Comair Flight 5283, between JFK and Washington DC's Reagan National is the worst:The evening rush hour jet from JFK to Washington Reagan National Airport landed late 100 percent of the time in September. Planes flying the route arrived an average......

Mayor Bloomberg announced that the city will move the homeless out of street encampments and work with city resources to ultimately move into permament housing. Here are the Mayor's remarks:"Today, I want to announce that we're launching the next major step to end street homelessness in New York. Over the past six weeks, our newly named DHS Commissioner, Rob Hess, and his team have identified the 73 sites around our city where some 350 homeless......

At present, trains on Amtrak and NJ Transit are running on schedule, but commuters are wary (and weary) after yesterday's power outage along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor that stopped service for both train system between Queens and Washington DC. This was the biggest transit power failure since, oh, the blackout of 2003 (and, yes, we heard words like "cascading" and "tripping circuitbreakers" on the news last night and cringed, too). Officials are unsure of what......

Seventh! Not even the top five! The Anholt-GMI City Brands Index was released yesterday, and NYC ranks seventh out of thirty cities surveyed. Clearly, something must be amiss. We're trying to get our hands on the actual survey, but let's talk about what we do know. The components of the survey included: Presence (contribution to culture/science), Place (physical aspects), Potential (job/education opportunities), Pulse (urban lifestyle), People (welcome/diversity), and Prerequisites (basic qualities). Well, there you go:......

Gothamist was there for the Campaign to End AIDS' protest walk through the Lincoln Tunnel this morning. The C2EA is walking all the way to Washington DC over the next couple of weeks, but we only tagged along for the first leg of the trip. Several hundred people turned out for the event, which kicked off at 7:30am this morning. In addition to supporting a good cause, we were very curious to check out......

On Tuesday evening Charlie Palmer's Metrazur reopened it's doors, er, balcony at Grand Central Terminal. The brasserie got a sleek re-design while we were away this summer and is welcoming guests back with specials including a $39 per person Saturday dinner menu that include a bottle of wine per couple and Tuesday night Ladies Night that we're particularly excited about- $4-5 glasses of wine all night and food specials still to be ironed out. We'll......

Last week, Transportation Alternatives held a friendly race to see what would be fastest way to get to work: Taking the subway, riding a bicycle, or driving car. And, yes, if you guessed that the bike rider won, you're right: Professional cyclist Kristen LaSasso made it from Junior’s Restaurant on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to Columbus Circle in just 27 minutes, while Michael Hernandez of the Straphangers' Campaign got there in 30 minutes and the......

While many people, in and out of the political arena, can find bad stuff to say about Mayor Bloomberg, there seems to be a problem with finding anything to say about the Democratic candidates who want to run against him. At least, anything to say that will stick with voters, and many Democratic leaders are worried about that. The NY Times quotes Reverend Al Sharpton's political director as saying, "People are saying, why should we......

New York finally gets its air train but it's not all it's cracked up to be: To take the Air Train, you need to take the subway, bus or LIRR to Jamaica or Howard Beach, and then you can take the Air Train to Kennedy. Ack. According to the brochure, taking the Air Train from Penn Station in Manhattan to Kennedy (E Train, then Air Train) will take you about 60 minutes and set you......