Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

Spotted | Ashley Olsen getting out of an SUV in Soho ... Orlando Bloom walking downtown ... Kim Kardashian leaving her hotel ... Michelle Trachtenberg drinking coffee on the set of Gossip Girl ... Uma Thurman covering her face with a magazine in the Village ... Michelle Williams and Spike Jonze walking together in Brooklyn ... Gerard Butler meeting up with friends in the meatpacking district ... Matthew Broderick taking son James to school in the West Village ... Matt Lauer walking down the street with a sling on his arm ... Whitney Port eating lunch at Philip Marie on Hudson Street ... Katy Perry shopping downtown ... Willem Dafoe dropping off mail in the West Village ... Paula Deen going into the Time Warner Center ... Kate Winslet walking by herself ... and Spike Lee and Bill Murray standing outside the Tribeca Grill.

Spotted | Marc Jacobs standing on the sidewalk outside the Mercer Hotel ... David Duchovny jogging across the street ... Molly Shannon and Nigella Lawson outside ABC studios ... Naomi Watts walking in the West Village with bag from the Container Store ... Salma Hayek and daughter Valentina arriving at their hotel ...  Penn Badgley shooting a scene on the Gossip Girl set in Brooklyn ... Katie Holmes carrying Suri out of their East 13th Street apartment building ... Ethan Hawke crossing the street ... Paula Deen and her husband Michael arriving at their hotel ... Beck outside the Letterman show ... Madonna and Alex Rodriguez leaving Yom Kippur services at the Kabbalah Center ... Sarah McLachlan leaving her hotel in Midtown ...  and Daniel Radcliffe talking to fans outside the Broadhurst Theater.

Spotted | Marc Jacobs standing on the sidewalk outside the Mercer Hotel ... David Duchovny jogging across the street ... Molly Shannon and Nigella Lawson outside ABC studios ... Naomi Watts walking in the West Village with bag from the Container Store ... Salma Hayek and daughter Valentina arriving at their hotel ...  Penn Badgley shooting a scene on the Gossip Girl set in Brooklyn ... Katie Holmes carrying Suri out of their East 13th Street apartment building ... Ethan Hawke crossing the street ... Paula Deen and her husband Michael arriving at their hotel ... Beck outside the Letterman show ... Madonna and Alex Rodriguez leaving Yom Kippur services at the Kabbalah Center ... Sarah McLachlan leaving her hotel in Midtown ...  and Daniel Radcliffe talking to fans outside the Broadhurst Theater.

♦  Does the financial meltdown mean the end of bottle service in New York? [DBTH, Gawker, GNML]
♦  A new study shows that Food Network hosts are pretty lousy at following food safety guidelines; Paula Deen, FYI, is the worst. [Super Chef via Eater]
♦  Death & Co.'s David Kaplan has gone to court to stop his building's landlord from evicting the bar over noise violations. [NYO]
♦  Anthony Bourdain enjoys eating "bootleg foods" like "illegal cheese." [Gothamist]
♦  Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern eats rancid cheese and fermented animal parts for a living and yet says he's never gotten sick on the job. [amNY]
♦  A new food magazine called Swallow is launching next month. [GS]
♦  Trader Joe's is opening its first Brooklyn outpost next Friday. [BP]