Who will pay for scaring all of Manhattan last Monday? Obama promises action! Bloomberg promises... forgiveness! We promise finger-pointing.

Louis Caldera has taken repsonsibility for the Air Force jetliner that buzzed the city today. This panic video shows why the White House official should go.

Well, he's not the pilot of the plane that buzzed the financial district (and lowly Jersey City) this sunny, 9/11-y morning. But he is the guy who authorized the flight.

So this thing happened today where a large jet circled low over Manhattan, chased by a fighter jet. Turns out it was just a government photo-op, ha ha. But people were scared, and took pictures.

What a gorgeous New York weekend that was! 80's and sunny. Were you one of the many, many people that filled both Central and Bryant Parks with your naked selves? Photographic evidence after the jump.

Oh hey, a 747 just circled around lower Manhattan today, and then some fighter jets showed up. That isn't the sort of thing anyone should've been warned about!

The director's new film Whatever Works premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last night, marking his first New York-set feature since fleeing for Europe six years ago. So how did it fare? Not terrifically.

It's as impossible to imagine the New York Observer without Peter Kaplan as it is to imagine him without a paper to edit. As he told Gawker, "I love my paper and my staff desperately."

[A tourist touches the Times Square ball in, um, Times Square, which has been made into the 'Earth Ball' in honor of Earth Day. Image via Getty

Tina Fey is funny, sure, but she's also really rich. I mean, just look at her new Upper West Side pad. Four bedrooms, fireplace, library. Liz Lemon has hit the big time. Here are pictures:

Michael Wolff, whose affair with a 28-year-old Vanity Fair intern and subsequent divorce were publicized all over the place, is just thinkin' about Eliot Spitzer, today.

Rudy Giuliani, what the hell is this about? You are the GOP's gay roommate-having Opera-loving cross-dressing Manhattan dandy, and now you are against the gay marriage?

[Reverend Billy, an anti-shopping spiritual leader, performs or whatever in New York last night; image via Brennan Cavanaugh's Flickr]

Oh you fucking hipsters. Talib Kweli—a black dude who white dudes aren't scared of—will be giving a free concert with fruity/dumb Vampire Weekend on Columbia's library steps in one hour. Grab your keffiyah!

Steven Rattner, former New York Times reporter, failed media investment firm founder, friend of Bloomberg and Sulzberger, and Car Czar, is one more former political star caught up in the New York pension fund scandal.

[A shot of 42nd street in midtown Manhattan taken yesterday; via The Talented Mr. Nimo's Flickr]

Is Eliot Spitzer already planning a political comeback? Or is that total bullshit speculation planted by enemies and lapped up by the thirsty press? Either way—that's crazy talk!

Architecturally speaking, what will the bust leave us? Woolworth, Cunard, Standard Oil—their buildings stand even if their companies didn't. What do we get this go-around? Media- and finance-subsidized glass and steel, pretty much.

Look how great this Ed Skyler guy is, with his Batman-esque crime-fighting work:

[The Grand nightclub in Manhattan, last night; image via sketchy record's Flickr]