taxi, by Runs With Scissors at flickrToday on the Gothamist Newsmap: an amputation on Hudson St. in Manhattan, an under-a-train fatality at Lenox Ave. and Central Park North in Manhattan, and a stabbing on 34th St. in Queens. Auvryn Scarlett, the sanitation truck driver who mowed down a pair of British tourists as they strolled down a midtown sidewalk, was arraigned on manslaughter charges yesterday. Saturday Night Live will attempt to make up for......

Don't have a Valentine's Day card yet? Print out this page, cut out the cards and give it to yourself! You can also download EPS versions of these Valentine's Day cards immortalized on the Simpsons' episode, I Love Lisa, at deconcept. Fun facts about Valentine Day's from the US Greeting Card Assocation: With an estimated 190 million cards to be exchaged, it's the second biggest card occasion after Christmas.1 billion "classroom valentines" will be......

FOOD: If you haven't been indulging enough this holiday season, have we got a sweet soiree for you. Chocoholics come together tonight to indulge in the finest goodies from around the world. Expect music, cocktails and a giant chocolate buffet. 6:30pm // Katra Lounge [247 Bowery] // $15 THEATER: The Irish Repertory Theatre has turned to Dublin native George Bernard Shaw’s comedy The Devil’s Disciple, which was his first financial success in 1897 after a......

ART: Duke Riley brings his latest exhibit, After the Battle of Brooklyn: East River Incognita II, to Magnan Projects. Starting tonight and showing through December 22nd, the works imagine New York during the Revolutionary War and "interweave historical and contemporary events with elements of fiction and myth to create allegorical histories. His re-imagined narratives comment on a range of issues from the cultural impact of overdevelopment and gentrification of waterfront communities to contradictions within political......

The best part of Mayor Bloomberg's maybe, maybe-not presidential aspirations is that we can debate about whether they are going to happen until the Democratic and Republican conventions next year! The NY Times now reports that the "excitement seems to have fizzled" about the idea of Candidate Bloomberg. It's a bit more detailed that Dan Rather's August proclamation that the Mayor would not run for president. Why? Mainly because of the "mayor’s unorthodox approach to......

The Pentagon released a transcript where Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has confesses to planning the September 11 attacks, as well as other terror attacks, during a tribunal hearing. The NY Times notes that the hearing "also summarized some of the evidence the Pentagon says supports the designation of Mr. Mohammed as an enemy combatant." Mohammed has been in U.S. custody since his capture in 2003. The Times also offered an excerpt of his "rambling" confession where......

Imagine: There you are, burying your pet iguana Geophrey in your backyard in Red Hook, when you notice that your shovel has hit on something odd. Something is down there, not too big, kind of round, hard, kind of heavy and pretty old looking. We'd probably be too preoccupied with the loss of poor Geophrey the iguana (bear with us) to look much closer at the hard thing buried in our back yard in......

The debate over the Parks Department $16 million dollar plans to renovate Washington Square Park just got interesting again. In a last ditch attempt to stop the two-year project that some say would radically alter the character of the park, an ad-hoc group has filed a lawsuit in Manhattan State Supreme Court arguing that the the planned redesign is "arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable and illegal." The plan, which would move the central fountain and statues......

Gothamist learned too late about Governors Island, a photography exhibit at the Municipal Art Society gallery, closing this Thursday, July 8. New York-based photographers Liza Kereszi and Andrew Moore documented a vast array of the island's indoor and outdoor spaces, from military structures to a Burger King to a bowling alley (pictured). If you can't make the exhibit, a slideshow of the majority of the 29 color photographs are on view online. Better yet, why......

For a moment, Gothamist thought we were just imagining that the dreary grey weather made it seem like a slow news day, but then the cover of the Post confirmed it: There main story is about how some random, sort of shriveled up princess made insulting remarks to black patrons of Da Silvano, and then the other story is about the American Idol finale tonight (on Fox, natch)! Gothamist doesn't quite understand what Princess Michael......

Watch out, Jeopardy! fans - the NY DMV may be screwing with you, as tale of two cities' joey details a trip to the Herald Square DMV. Since his and other would-be licensed drivers have to wait in line for hours at that location, the DMV installed a LCD ticker of trivia to amuse people and prevent them from plotting an uprising. joey, however, has some problems with it: How fun! Or so I thought.......

Central Park is celebrating its 150th birthday this year, and you can find out all the details at the 150th Anniversary page, but the official word comes today. Still, the Central Park Conservancy President Regina Peruggi tells us this: Save Saturday, July 19, for the Parkwide 150th birthday bash from dawn till dark. The day starts with a bicycle race and ends with an old-fashioned concert on the Great Lawn. There will be a dog......