Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Battle Over ‘Heads’ Photo Goes to Court

  Published: October 5, 2007, 4:39 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Cultural Affairs, Courts Law, Art Galleries, Photography, Times Square

  The subject of a portrait taken in Times Square is seeking financial damages, in part because his faith forbids "graven images."

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• Report Details Series of Desperate Calls by Gotbaum’s Husband

  Published: October 5, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Government Politics, Crime Public Safety, City Hall, Police Fire, Airports, Betsy Gotbaum

  The 108 pages of newly released documents detail the moments before and after the death of Carol A. Gotbaum at the Phoenix airport.

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• The Law of the Sidewalk, Under Appeal

  Published: October 5, 2007, 3:07 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Crime Public Safety, Albany, Courts Law, Public Spaces, Offbeat, Manhattan, Tourism

  New York State's highest court will hear an appeal in the case of a man charged with disorderly conduct for standing in the middle of a Manhattan sidewalk, forcing other people to walk around him.

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• In New Yorkers’ Fish Tales, One Fact Is Unclear

  Published: October 5, 2007, 1:44 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Government Politics, Health Hospitals, Environment, City Council, Fish

  More people than you might think fish every week in New York City waters. And more than a few of them eat what they catch.

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• Marriage Bureau’s Graffiti Wall Is Doomed

  Published: October 5, 2007, 10:22 am

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Local History, Buildings Landmarks, City Hall, City Clerk, Marriage, Wedding

  To attract nuptial tourists, New York City will renovate its municipal marriage bureau using the mayor's personal interior designer -- but not without one sentimental loss.

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• Memories of the Giuliani Administration, on Audio

  Published: October 5, 2007, 9:15 am

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Morning Buzz, Betsy Gotbaum, Rikers Island, Rudolph W Giuliani

  Also in the Morning Buzz: Unlawful strip searches at Rikers Island, new details in the Gotbaum case, teenagers die in a crash and other headlines from the New York region.

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• In Iraq, Soldiers Honor a Brooklyn Pizzeria

  Published: October 4, 2007, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, People Neighborhoods, Brooklyn, Army, Food, Iraq War, Pizza, Sunset Park

  Johnny's Pizza, a beloved neighborhood joint in Sunset Park, received a surprise sign of support from Army reservists stationed in northern Iraq.

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• Catholic Conference Backs Spitzer’s Driver’s License Plan

  Published: October 4, 2007, 3:25 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Albany, Eliot Spitzer, Illegal Immigration

  New York's Roman Catholic bishops are supporting Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.

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• Panel Discussion: Has New York Lost Its Soul?

  Published: October 4, 2007, 1:49 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Housing Economy, People Neighborhoods, Gentrification, Rents

  At a panel discussion, New Yorkers debated whether chain stores, gentrification and rising housing prices have sapped the vitality of the city.

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• Asthma en Espa ol: You Wheeze and Snore Together

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:05 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Health Hospitals, Asthma, Columbia University, Spanish

  The lack of a good Spanish term for "wheezing" can become a stumbling block in asthma research and clinical diagnosis, according to researchers.

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• Taking a Sneak Peek at the High Line

  Published: October 8, 2007, 11:21 am

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Cultural Affairs, Buildings Landmarks, Parks Recreation, Land Use Planning, High Line

  The High Line, the derelict elevated train track being transformed into a park on the West Side, was briefly open to the public this weekend.

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• A Sunny Weekend at an Upper Manhattan Beach

  Published: October 8, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, People Neighborhoods, Parks Recreation, Beaches, Bridges, Fish, Washington Heights

  Enjoying the unusually warm October weather, families gathered over the weekend at the sandy beach near the George Washington Bridge.

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• Gas Leak Caused Harlem Apartment Explosion

  Published: October 8, 2007, 8:55 am

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Morning Buzz, Harlem

  Also in the Morning Buzz: the demolition of the Lincoln Motel in Newark, sleep concierges in hotels, the Clever Commute transit notification system and the funeral for Carol A. Gotbaum.

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• WNYC Asks, Are You Being Gouged?'

  Published: October 8, 2007, 4:49 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, Housing Economy, Food, Supermarkets

  It turns out that the price of a quart of milk, a six-pack of beer and a head of iceberg lettuce can vary dramatically across boroughs and neighborhoods.

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• There Is No Joy in Yankeeville

  Published: October 9, 2007, 3:48 pm

  Tags: Featured Box, Top Story, City Sports, The Bronx, Baseball, Fans, Yankees

  Is that baseball team in the Bronx really worth your emotional investment?

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