We have been receiving so many great new shoes in stock lately (especially styles for the coming Autumn season!!) that we have had to hire a lot of new people! For this month’s edition of Employee Picks, we decided to introduce you to one of the newest members of the Gotham City Online team, Jessica.  She was hired at the end of April so she has been with us just 4 months but we think she’s fitting right in!

Love that shirt, Jessica!

Favorite Color:  Black

Favorite Season:   Fall

Favorite Movie:  Grand Torino

Family: Jessica is married to Andre’ and has two sons: DeAndre’ and Dominick

Working at Gotham City Online . . .  “gives me the feeling of being in an extended family.”

Shoe Picks:

Caparros Forever

Style & Co. Vivi

Carlos Santana Pacific

Back to School Shoes by Gotham City Online on Polyvore.com

The following shoes are pictured above (left to right in 5 rows):

Row 1 -
Enzo Angiolini Girl orange peep toe heels for $47.98
Enzo Angiolini Kellie green patent leather ballet flats for $39.98
Andre Assous Myrte-3 pink ballet flats for $79.98
Row 2 -
Michael by Michael Kors Melanie red platform wedges for $63.98
Nine West Strega orange thong sandals for $31.98
Row 3 -
Bandolino Leandra yellow wedge slides for $31.98
Luzia Mirnar green suede sandals for $79.98
Row 4 -
Michael by Michael Kors Sneakers in red patent for $55.98
Guess Donte peep toe yellow canvas wedges for $39.98
Rampage Marquis blue d’orsay heels for $23.98
Row 5 -
Puma Basic blue flip flops for $7.98 !!!!
KORS by Michael Kors Garcia orange ponyhair wooden slides for $71.98

Being in New York City certainly has its perks. For one thing, there is always something to do! But, as you can imagine, the events really start piling up when summer rolls around because the days are long and the nights are warm. We thought we’d share a little about the things we’ve been doing on the New York end of Gotham City Online and, if you’re in the city or coming to visit, we hope you’ll be able to get in on the fun!

First of all, there are tons of great new movies coming out in the theaters this summer. But have you ever felt that the day was just too nice to be cooped up inside a dark movie theater for 2 hours? Well the solution comes as the following two fantastic (and free) summer movie festivals going on now that are showing old favorites and maybe even a movie or two you’ve never seen.

One is being held in the gorgeous Bryant Park every Monday evening as part of the 2009 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival. And the second is the Summerscreen in McCarren Park which offers free movies in Brooklyn. Now you have no excuse to miss out on the fun no matter where you are in the city.

Second, a few of us happen to be seriously thrilled by flea markets and there’s no better place to go searching and shopping than in New York. At these flea markets you can find anything from up and coming designers trying to gain exposure for their brand new items to cheap garage sale treasures to rare and pricey vintage finds. The few we visit most in the summer are: the Brooklyn Flea, the Green Flea on the Upper West Side, the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market on West 39th, and the Union Square Greenmarket (mostly a farmer’s market, but if you keep walking you’ll see paintings, jewelry and street performers too!).

And last, Manhattan’s Summer Restaurant Week is nearing its end July 31st so be sure to get in on the deals before it’s over. You can eat at some of the best restaurants in the city for less than $35! For a list of participating restaurants and to make reservations online, click here to visit the nycgo website.

Have fun!

We’ve received tons of  fabulous new shoes recently, just in time for the summer, and we noticed that many of them are brands we’ve never carried before. So, we’d like to introduce you to a few of the NEW brands now on sale at Gotham City Online! We’re sure you’ll love introducing these shoe designers to your closet: Rocawear, Bernardo, Jessica Bennett, Ros Hommerson, Born, Chilis and Bruno Magli. (click on the name of each brand to see all the styles we have in stock right now).

Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about your favorite brands; we’re also getting tons of new styles in every day from: Jessica Simpson, BCBGirls, White Mountain, Nine West and many more!

New Summer Styles at Gotham by Gotham City Online featuring Nine West shoes

Jessica has been working at Gotham City Online for 7 years. She started at Gotham in the inventory department and worked her way up to her current position in business development. Since she’s such a hard worker, we decided to feature Jessica as our employee of the month for July!

She also let us know that, since she was having such a hard time deciding between shoes to feature in her picks section, she really should be allowed extra shoe choices… so I happily bowed to seniority  

My Car’s Name: Nizmo (a 350 Z red Nissan)

Favorite Color:  

Working at Gotham City Online… “has been a great experience for me. It has helped me grow as a professional. We’re a great team!”

Favorite Movies: Man on Fire, Austin Powers, True Romance, I Am Legend

The Foods I Hate: watermelon, peanut butter, fruit on the bottom yogurt

Movie Producer I’d Love to Work With: Quentin Tarantino

Wisdom: “Jessica needs a brand, what’s your brand?”

                    Shoe Picks

Gotham City Online will be closed on Friday, July 3, for the holiday weekend, but our online store never closes and is open for shopping 24-7!   

If you have any questions or concerns, we will be getting back to everyone as quickly as possible come Monday morning, July 6. Until then, Happy Fireworks!

Happy 4th of July by Gotham City Online on Polyvore.com

The ad below for our Gotham City Designer Outlet store in Mayfield, Kentucky ran in today’s Thursday, June 25, 2009 edition of The Paducah Sun newspaper!  But, just in case you’ll be in the area and didn’t get that paper, we thought we’d run our ad here in our blog too, just for you. Simply print a copy of this page and bring it with you to our brick and mortar store at 1102 Paris Road to receive your EXTRA savings!

Welcome back to another Employee Pick! The first day of summer (June 21, also Father’s Day) is coming up fast and, for many people, that means vacation time: road trips, roller coasters, sunshine, the beach… whatever it is, you’ll probably also remember to take lots of pictures to capture the moment.

With that in our heads, we decided to introduce you to someone from our photo department who captures the moment before each pair of our shoes gets posted for sale – say hi to Nikki! As you have probably already seen, she’s great at making sure our shoe pictures are accurate and at somehow getting each pair to smile for the camera 

Nikki from the Photo Department

Favorite season: Spring

My son’s name: Keaton 

Wisdom: “What becomes of the broken hearted? They buy shoes.”

Favorite book:  The Testament by John Grisham   –>

My favorite color is pink!

 Pets: A pit-bull named Carson

Favorite flower: Daisy

Working at Gotham City Online… “gives me opportunity to see beautiful shoes on a daily basis. It’s like going shoe shopping every day.”

Shoe Picks (below) 

Above (left to right): Adidas black flip-flop sandals, Steve Madden platform heels, and Steve Madden Survey zebra stiletto ankle booties.

We’re lucky we chose Mayfield, Kentucky to open our first store. The people there are all so nice and we’re learning more about the residents and the state all the time: from dealing with the occasional ice storm and tornado warning, to having beautiful, open green landscapes, savoring the calm and unhurried atmosphere so unlike New York City, and seeing friends everywhere you go.

So, we wanted to have a bit of fun and share some interesting facts about Kentucky with our blog readers! Some of these topics we didn’t even know about our own state of New York so, of course, that led to us looking up information on our state too. We’re sure there’ll be surprises in store for natives of both states. For example, did you know the official state drink of both New York and Kentucky is milk?! (did you even know there was an official state drink?).  There’s even more below…

• The State Nickname of Kentucky is The Bluegrass State. New York gets two: the state is both The Empire State and The Big Apple.
• The State Outdoor Musical of Kentucky is ”The Stephen Foster Story.” New York doesn’t have a State Outdoor Musical but the do host lots all over the city!
• State Butterfly: Kentucky (below left) and New York (right)

Viceroy Butterfly

Red-spotted Purple/ White Admiral Butterfly

•  The State Dance of Kentucky is Clogging (!!) and the (maybe unoffical) State Dance of New York is the Lindy Hop
• The State Flower of Kentucky is Goldenrod while New York has the Rose.
• Kentucky has a State Tug-o-War Championship: The Forsdville (Ohio County), but sadly, New York does not.
• New York has an offical State Muffin: the apple muffin, but Kentucky does not officially honor muffins.
• A #1 brand bought at the Gotham City Designer Outlet in Kentucky is New Balance and a #1 shoe brand bought by our New York customers from our online store is Marc Fisher.

New Balance WA450 sneakers

Marc Fisher Osteria 4 wedges

Think you can top our fun facts? Tell us something interesting about New York and Kentucky by commenting on this blog (yes, you have to research both states like we did), and you could win a free $5 gift certificate to our online store, www.GothamCityOnline.com.  Hey, it looks like your 4th grade teacher was right, State Reports are totally useful in the real world!!  : )