Maybe you've seen Richard Florida's Atantic article on meltdown geography, or the New York Times on LA's beleaguered hipster suburb . Both effectively say suburbs will eat it in this recession. Why? Because as heavily dependent as Gotham is on the smoldering financial services industry, it's actuall...

newVideoPlayer("/maher_bankers_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Don't get us wrong: We despise the arrogant and overpaid financiers responsible for this economic mess. They, not taxpayers, should pay for their incompetence. But banker hatred is starting to get worrisomely extreme. Some examples: Bill Mahe...

Have you always thought that rich people are jerks? Perhaps that's because of the fact that science has just proved: Rich people are jerks. [Psychology researchers at Berkeley] videotaped 100 undergraduate students who didn't know each other, and studied their body language during one-minute gaps in...

Want to fire a servant over some trifle? Delay a wedding? Flake out on your friends or children? No problem: Just blame the national economic collapse. It works even if you're rich. We know because a variety of self-professed weasels shared their stories with the New York Times. The Sunday Styles st...

The age of extravagance is over. The lush life—even if you can afford it—is no longer practical without being burned alive by public opinion. Six new rules for the rich to live by: 1. No More Private Jets—Symbolism is everything. A sleek, multimillion-dollar private jet is a pretty...

Did you know that twins, though they may provide extra mouths to feed in a down economy, can gain a mother entrance into an "exclusive society" of travel and glamorous TV work? It's true! Or at least it is according to Page Six Magazine , which doesn't have many of statistics in its twins story, "Ne...

With a million people in DC for the inauguration, Craigslist has, naturally, become a throbbing hub of sexxxy inaugural offer$. Even journalists are trying to elbow in on the action. Below, a quick tour of the enduring erotic power of Barack Obama (or, more cynically, of tickets to a sold-out show)....

  The train wreck that is the thread "What an UNbelievable JERK!" on dating site OkCupid.com is spreading quickly via Digg, Reddit, etc. It's real, but might as well be scripted. The discussion is about a bad date arranged online. But from the very first post, which takes an unexpected tur...

The angry old building super/tabloid star over in Bay Ridge with a penchant for posting crazy-ass notes threatening to kill his tenants, Richard Martin, has been fired. We're sad! How do we know this? The self-styled media critic ("shit") phoned the news in to the Daily News himself, at three in the...

We've told you before about the mysterious and muscular young men who have been staging public fights in Union Square—right in the shadow of Whole Foods, HSBC, and the Virgin Megastore. New York magazine profiles them this week—the "Union Square Spartans" are from rough-and-tumble backgr...