Manhattan Monday

The world's largest Gucci store opened on Fifth Avenue this weekend, taking up 46,000 square feet on three floors of Trump Tower. The fashion house simultaneously launched their new line of Gucci ♥ NY handbags and luggage, which retail for up to $7000. However, the state of New York owns the trademark for anything that ♥'s anything, something they have zealously protected to the tune of 3000 lawsuits to date. The state says Gucci never contacted them and does not have permission to use the ♥, but talks are in progress as all of Gucci's sales from the ♥ items (available only in NYC) will go to the playground fund of the Central Park Conservancy.

- Here's a neat NY Times map showing how NYC voted in the primary. Looks like Harlem, Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan went Obama. Which makes sense, I guess.

- The High School for Innovation In Advertising opens in the fall. The goal is to bring more black and Latino students into the ad game.

- Residents of the Upper West Side's famed Ansonia building are suing a fellow tenant for smoking in her own home. Tenants complain that they can smell her cigarettes in the hallway. I'm gonna sue my neighbor because I hate the smell of curry. Second-hand curry kills, people.

- Diversity is not in at Fashion Week. Via Gothamist: "Out of 1,584 model slots, 94 (6%) went to black models, 17 (1%) to Latinas and 95 (6%) to Asians. Of the 66 designers who showed in Bryant Park's tents, 18 had no black models, and 6 had all-white lineups."

- Most Googled terms by NYers in January: Heath Ledger, subprime, vodka, Oscar nominees, Giuiliani, Facebook, Apple, MacBook Air, Fashion Week, pilates.

- Tommy Sneakers, Jackie The Nose and 60 others with Goodfellas-esque names were among the Gambino family mobsters brought down in a massive sweep by feds across all five boroughs, the largest such mafia bust in decades. And Gotham's construction sites hoist flags of mourning.