Welcome to the first EiNY-hosted Big Apple Blog Festival—a round-up of the best New York bloggers had to offer during the wettest week in 102 years when broken $3 umbrellas clogged city sewer gates. A dark, damp seven days during which:

Tessa at NYC Metblogs got mugged by a Fresh Direct [food] delivery man.

A seven-inch vibrator went up for sale on Craigslist, New York…for the discreet woman…only used once. Meanwhile Manhattan Transfer may have found the most hopeful and hopeless Missed Connections advertisement on Craigslist from a woman who wants to rekindle an old weight room relationship from 1992!

Jossip took a break, leaving us with the tantalizing tidbit that L is for love on the New York subway.

Opinionistas warned us that it was only a matter of time before her cover is blown. Don’t miss the denouement.

Two teens found a healthier place to eat than McDonalds at Overheard in New York. I won’t spoil the punchline for you.

The Corsair took away some valuable life lessons from Boy George’s run-in with the law: “It’s best not to involve the local constabulary when fucked up on “Vitamin C” with a hooker in the crib.”

Jeff at the Tin Man won his office celebrity death pool with Peter Jennings, Simon Wiesenthal and Shelby Foote among others.

Yanks fan and Sox fan provide a list of excuses after their dismal showing.

Baby frustration spilled over in the messageboards at Dailyslope. “It all started innocently enough, with Carnivore suggesting that aggressive baby-pushers install “cow catchers” on the front of their monster-strollers before they begin plowing down 7th Avenue [in Brooklyn].” Meanwhile, Dailyheights noted that although Prospect Heights is a great place to live, whatever your color, you might want to think twice before sending your white kids to school there.

In other news, the zany Lowercase L hunter found that his signage plague had spread to Massachusetts.

Despite her best efforts, Karol at Alarming News got sucked into the gay marriage debate again.

Rion snagged some excellent storm photos.

Amy’s New York Notebook found the safest toy on the market.

Slant Point said that the New York Daily News’ “Terror tip for rich” angle to the New York subway scare (that turned out to be a hoax) was “wrong and dangerous.”

With Italy starting a project to build the world’s longest suspension bridge—a double six-lane-highwayed, four-railway-tracked goliath that will finally connect Sicily to the mainland—Ace of Spades has lots of links to pictures of suspension bridges. Don’t miss France’s Millau Viaduct.

Jane Galt, of Asymmetrical Information, asked for $430 million to buy her own desert island but said she won’t be taking any Walker’s whole wheat (wholemeal) shortbread with her. (Possibly a case of having your cake but not eating it?)

Rather than attend the Asia Society’s pricey dim sum talk A Guy in New York went to Chinatown to put his taste buds to the test in a more economical way. Maybe he bumped into A Brooklyn Life, who decided to take advantage of the neighborhood’s biannual Taste of Chinatown to do some eating.

And celebrations for a couple of NYC food blogs. Congratulations to Josh Friedland at The Food Section, who was listed among the culinary notables in the Food & Wines annual Tastemaker Awards. And to Slice who turned two this week.

And what of the Englishman in New York? Well he got out of bed before sunrise to explore the soon-to-be-gone delights of Fulton Fish Market.

The Big Apple Blog Festival is listed on the ÃœberCarnival page and in Carnival News.

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