subway love, by presley at flickr Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a truck into scaffolding on West 39th St. and Broadway in Manhattan, a bank robbery at the HSBC branch on 33rd St. and Park Ave. in Manhattan, and a double shooting on East 57th St. and Ave. D in Brooklyn. The $8 million Jean-Michel Basquiat painting "Hannibal", which was smuggled out of Brazil, was located at a Manhattan warehouse on 61st St. and......

Recently, legend became reality when a 10-story building in SoHo was being converted to a luxury condo. Unearthed in the walls was a large mural created by graffiti pioneers Fab Five Freddy and Futura 2000.The artwork contains a variety of images and writing executed in spray paint, grease pencil, magic marker and whatever else was on hand — in silver, gold, pink and red. There are cartoonlike pictures of a bomber airplane, images of a......

One would think that dropping some serious cash at a high end auction house would be a safe bet. Today it's being reported that an art dealer in Chelsea did just that and ended up with a counterfeit piece! Christie's is now being faced with a $7 million lawsuit that charges them with knowingly selling the art dealer a fake Jean-Michel Basquiat painting. Page Six reports:Tony Shafrazi, who was Basquiat's primary dealer, says he bought......

Welcome to 2006! What's coming up in events around the city...sex, drugs, and rock & roll. And also some art and design (all downtown, of course). Some things never change, even with the passing of a year. First up, Parsons presents the first exhibition to explore one of the most avant-garde periods in 20th-century American Design, titled Anarchy to Affluence: Design in New York, 1974 -1984. The exhibit aims to examine important interior, furniture, fashion,......

If the electic orange exterior of Great Jones Cafe doesn't reel you in, their reputed cajun-inspired menu featuring seafood jambalaya, shrimp po-boys, and cajun-fried oysters -- ought to. Rumored to be a former hangout of street-kid and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, these days Great Jones Cafe caters less to starving artists and more to local East and West Villagers in search of a stellar juke box and one of the best burgers in town.......

A missing 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting en route to an exhibit in Europe was reported missing from a JFK International Airport hangar two weeks ago. Police were able to figure out that Albert Porcelli, a truck driver, stole the painting since a surveillance tape caught the crime and the fact that his presence at the warehouse was confirmed because he had to leave a copy of his driver's license there. Porcelli was not a sophisticated......

Jean-Michel Basquiat is back in his native Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum's exhibit of his paintings opens tomorrow and runs until June 5. Over 90 of his paintings and drawings will be on display, some of them never before seen by the public. The Brooklyn Museum notes Basquiat's "integration of text and iconography," something he undoubtedly honed while working mainly as a street artist. Some of the drawings are spare, economical meditations, distilling an idea into......