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New York City

New York Comic Con: It’s Exhaustive, I’m Exhausted

By Clare Toohey

October 18, 2011

I think I’ve missed one year of the last 5, and this year’s NYCC was the biggest ever.  I was not at the first, but I do recall when it was small enough to have to share Javits Center floor space (on only one level yet) with a travel show that was much larger and…

The Halloran House Hotel NYC

The Scene of the Crime: Heistworthy Hotels

By Dirk Robertson

October 14, 2011

Just as in real estate, in crime location is everything. And plenty of criminals choose hotels as the scenes of their felonious fun. Take Darius Guppy, for example. A gem merchant so well-bred and connected that if he were food, he would be Ossetra caviar, Guppy checked into Room 1208 of New York’s Halloran House…

Does today’s Time Square need a touch of gray?

Times Square Goes Noir: The City that Never Sleeps Meets The Big Sleep

By Crime HQ

October 6, 2011

When I say “The City that Never Sleeps” what genre do you immediately think of? If you said “Noir,” then you agree with the current design team working with New York City in a large-scale redesign of historic Times Square. Currently the city is investing 27 million dollars into the development of the pedestrian plazas…

Even when it’s sweltering, pulp fans are connoisseurs of coolness.

Pulp in the Wild: Fans Take a Little Off the Top

By Charles Ardai

September 2, 2011

In the heat of summer, you might take your favorite summer reading to the beach – if you lived in California, Hawaii, or the south of France.  If you’re in the middle of New York City, though, beaches are hard to come by, even when the mercury climbs into the 90s. The solution? For some…

John Thaw and Dennis Waterman in The Sweeney

The Sweeney and NYPD Blue:The Best Old Cop Shows

By Dirk Robertson

August 30, 2011

Television serves up memorable police stories both sides of the Atlantic. The old ones are the best. Good plots, great characters and tales that were not too sentimental. The ingredients really worked. Many missed the mark, of course. There was a U.S. horror, the name escapes me, that was a musical. The detectives would burst…

City Hall’s in the lower left, and the collect pond formed the unstable ground upon which Five Points was built. /Urbanography

1860s Five Points is Star of BBC America’s Copper

By Clare Toohey

July 29, 2011

The notorious Irish gangland of 1860s New York, the so-called Five Points, was also known as the Sixth Ward bounded.  Its squalid past has been mined for such works as The Gangs of New York, and will now be the setting for on cable network’s first scripted drama, Copper.  According to BBC America’s press release:…

Gotham Central comic

Gotham Central: Cops Under a Bat-Shaped Shadow

By Scott D. Parker

May 23, 2011

If Ed McBain wrote a comic book, it probably would have been a lot like Gotham Central. You recognize the city name, of course. It’s Batman’s stomping grounds. It’s the town where all the wackos come out to play, wreak havoc, and then go home to Arkham Asylum. And, aside from Commissioner James Gordon or…

Police Mascots: Cuddly v. Corrupt

By Crime HQ

May 4, 2011

The Gothamist recently hosted an unofficial mascot contest for NYPD. The inspiration came from Tokyo Metro Police Department’s very own Pipo-kun who was introduced in 1987 to promote friendlier relations between law enforcement and Tokyoites. Submissions have trickled in from New Yorkers for a cartoon cop liaison and many of these reflect cheeky humor and…

Poe: Toast of Gotham

By Susan Amper

April 28, 2011

Recently, the web was aflutter with the news that in 2012 Baltimore plans to cut off funding for its Poe House. This imminent closing has raised again the question of which city can call itself the Poe city. Six cities lay claim to Edgar Allan Poe: Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charlottesville, Richmond, and New York. Although born…

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