Because you love stripper slideshows, check out today's end-of-day links: cops with nasal spray, iOS7 motion sickness, Arcade Fire on NBC, WNBA kissing foul, Christine Quinn documentary, rich people love submarines, and kitty meets hedgehog. Don't forget to follow Gothamist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. more ›

People just love comparing San Francisco and New York City, but the conversation is, at best, fruitless, and at worst, tension-inducing: It's not enough to simply live and let live—we must evangelize. (Friend 1: "New Yorkers are self-absorbed assholes." Friend 2: "San Franciscans are a gaggle of burrito-eating hippie burn-outs.") more ›

The RV is gone, the meth empire has crumbled, and breakfast is no longer being served: after 61 episodes of vicarious thrills and agonizing sympathy pains, Breaking Bad will air its finale this Sunday at 9 p.m. on AMC. And while some people haven't watched the show due to some mixture of laziness and stubbornness, many more are salivating at the prospect of one last ride through the ABQ. And many of those people are positing their own (likely wrong) theories about the finale online. more ›

Don't have cable? Want to watch the series finale of Breaking Bad amongst strangers and the comfort of an endless alcohol supply nearby so you can all cope with the pain together? Here's where you can do that this Sunday: more ›

Throughout this election season, almost all the major mayoral candidates have weighed in on the controversial circumcision consent forms that require Orthodox Jewish parents to sign a waiver before their infant can undergo the "metzitzah b’peh" ritual. Considering how strong the Hasidic voting block is, it's no surprise that candidates as disparate as Bill Thompson and Erick Salgado have tried to appeal to community leaders. Now that we're down to just Bill de Blasio and Joe Lhota, both men are vying for those votes—and both have been willing to contradict and compromise themselves in pursuit of that. more ›

A NJ state judge ruled that the state must permit gay marriage, or else couples in civil unions would be denied federal benefits. more ›

Well that was...sort of quick. Though it looked like low-cost bus carrier Fung Wah was dead forever after feds shut the company down in March, it appears they may be bringing those cheap trips to Boston back soon; officials announced this week that the company has undergone a major revamp, and they hope to resume operations this fall. Do you feel lucky? more ›

"This intoxicating and sobering vision of an American future, set during a day-after-tomorrow apocalypse, isn’t just some giddy head trip, either. It has depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination," critic Ben Brantley writes in his NY Times review. "At the end of Steve Cosson’s vertiginous production, which opened on Sunday night at Playwrights Horizons, you’re likely to feel both exhausted and exhilarated from all the layers of time and thought you’ve traveled through." Indeed, it's a hell of a trip, and the third act, a sort of highly embellished musical inspired by Simpsons archetypes, is very weird, in a good way. more ›

A woman jogging—and pushing her eight-month-old baby in a stroller—was attacked in Fort Tryon Park earlier today. Fortunately, she was able to fight off the man by beating him with a bike pump. more ›

"What is a play cafe?" is the first question asked and answered on this Kickstarter page for The Uncommons, a board game cafe planning to open in Greenwich Village (230 Thompson Street) this October. Think: board games, D&D;, coffee, tea, and hot mini-donuts, served day and night. more ›

For a man who has publicly toyed with the idea of buying one of most influential newspapers in the country, Bloomberg's tolerance for reporters and their meddlesome questions has withered to total nonexistence, imploding in on itself like a neutron star of impatience. more ›

It's been nearly two months since Manhattan ad executive Jennifer Rosoff plummeted to her death from her 17th-story balcony; yesterday, her mother filed a lawsuit against the building's owners and management company, citing them for negligence. more ›

Last weekend, a man was arrested in Times Square after he allegedly attacked a woman during a demonstration against the military coup in Egypt. As you can see in the video below, suspect Atef Sabry Abu El Enin, 33, of Washington D.C., hit Rachel Gunnoe, a stay-at-home mom from New Jersey, with her protest sign; he also called her a "fucking terrorist." But according to the Village Voice, so far El Enin has only been given a ticket for disorderly conduct. more ›

As Mayor Bloomberg prepares to leave office, he's starting to get nostalgic. During his radio show with John Gambling on WOR 710, Bloomberg discussed the upcoming revamped "casual" Tavern on the Green. The old Tavern on the Green was a famous tourist trap with whimsical ambiance and lackluster food, and according to Politicker, "Mr. Bloomberg credited [its] success...to the fact that people were too scared to go anywhere else." more ›

Like a moth to a flame, we can't help but read every single essay a young woman writes about her departure from New York City. It's shocking, isn't it, that anyone even feels the need to publish such an essay when we already have Joan Didion's "Goodbye To All That"? more ›

Because sometimes Victoria's Secret models aren't tidy, check out today's mid-day links: sea monster that resembles Cookie Monster, NY Times' Mario and Luigi correction, American celebs in weird Japanese commercials, and dogs chasing their tails. Don't forget to follow Gothamist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. more ›

The United Nations released a long-awaited report on climate change today, and it turns out that regardless of what Rush Limbaugh believes, it is in fact "extremely likely" humans have caused all this global warming. Sorry to disillusion you. more ›

Future Mayor Bill de Blasio has appeared a few times on hip-hop station Hot 97's Morning Show, from which he received a coveted endorsement undoubtedly responsible for his success. He returned earlier this week to discuss New York's most celebrated Hair, as well as his various name-changes. The discussion, which spans 13 minutes, is most notable as the moment Dante de Blasio was referred to as "Afro Son," a term that we must now embrace. more ›