It's Fleet Week, that time of year when ships all dock in New York and the Big Apple is swarmed with scores of horny naval men and Marines looking for a good time.

Fleet Week in New York is not all hunky sailors. As part of a series of military aircraft demonstrations, a Navy Osprey plane landed in a Staten Island park, sending debris falling onto spectators. Video inside.

It's New York's Fleet Week! We told you how to nab a sailor; this bus driver apparently heeded our advice. She met a sailor on the street and snapped a picture with him. Now she wants to find him again.

[When Paris Hilton shows up at Fleet Week, the jokes just write themselves. Image via Getty]

Along with giant flower broaches and nauseating cupcakes, another thing Carrie Bradshaw made famous was Fleet Week, the annual onslaught of horny sailors into Manhattan. Want to go about getting a man in uniform of your very own? Here's how!

New York City's Fleet Week is upon us, the special week allowing single ladies to drop their panties for US Sailors. Heavily romanticized on the Sex & The City series, it's ironic that Stanford and Anthony were on the show.

Fleet Week is in full swing here in New York City, in honor of Memorial Day and all. I'm blowing off seventh and eighth and going to see the new Christian Slater, but I figured I'd leave with a sexy (um, sorta) sailor photo gallery. Happy Patriotism, everyone!

A U.S. Navy ship with sailors standing at attention passes the Statue of Liberty in the Upper New York Bay at the start of Memorial Day weekend's Fleet Week festivities. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

• Kate Moss's latest collection for Topshop hits stores (and the web) tomorrow. [Fashionologie]
• Anna, Oscar, Vera, and Carolina—among others—joined Mayor Bloomberg at City Hall this afternoon to announce Fashion's Night Out, which is scheduled for Sept. 10. [NYM]
• A former assistant to Karl Lagerfeld (and the author of a tell-all about the designer) is making waves once again with his descriptions of life inside the house of the Kaiser. [Fashionologie]
• A chat with French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld. [Guardian]
• Halston's new creative director is Marios Schwab. [Vogue UK]
• Nordstrom be eyeing the Virgin Megastore space in Union Square. [WWD]
• It's Fleet Week! Why not get dressed up for the occasion? [Pipeline]

From the mailbag: "Today is Cosmo's 50 Hottest Bachelors day in the Hearst building. They were all in the cafeteria at lunch, wearing matching black t-shirts and sequestered off to the side, like cattle but with more hair gel. They were hanging over the partition scoping out the fashion girls, while all the older business-y types continued to eat their lunches and ignore them. Presume they are now off on other fun-filled events in the auditorium and around."

Rod Townsend (aka our commenter Momo), sometimes receives telephone calls from The Past, a mysterious entity that remembers where things used to be in New York before Starbucks and Whole Foods came to town.

The ravishing Radosh and his mighty Nexis account today paint for us a Times/Fleet Week retrospective.

A day after a grateful nation commemorated the sacrifices of the men and women sworn to protect it, The Times weighs in with a troubling report on the state of our country's military. Apparently, sailors in town for Fleet Week are eschewing traditional New York City activities like fucking tranny hookers in cheap West Side Highway motels for slightly less adventurous pursuits:

A loyal reader crunches the numbers to prove what we all already knew:

From Craigslist, this morning alone: