Archive for the 'New York City Life' Category
The Ten Plagues of the New York Subway
As much as public love the New York Subway, there is always something to complain about - the overcrowding at rush hour, the delays, and just the dirt that is found within the system. final week, the transit advocacy group, Straphangers Campaign made its list of Ten Plagues of the Subway. Althou…
New Yorkers face calorie facts
Would you steer absent from that juicy restaurant burger whether next to its menu description came a whopper listing of its calories? New Yorkers are facing that very question now that the city’s chain restaurants are legally called for to post calorie counts on their menus.
Officials are hoping …
Manhattan’s $8 Traffic Fee Sinks–Bloomberg Personally Blamed
To politicians in Queens, Brooklyn and New York’s suburbs, it was an effete degree that overwhelmingly benefited wealthy Manhattanites. To Mayor Michael Bloomberg, it was to be the pinnacle of his legacy.
Yesterday, New York’s State Assembly shot down the congestion pricing plan that would charge…
168 ways to be frugal
I consider myself a frugal person. When it comes to buying anything new, I check my local thrift stores or shop on eBay to see whether I can get the item cheaper. It seems that the only day I decide to spend too much money is when I go to the grocery store hungry.
Besides clipping coupons and goi…
Starbucks all closing tomorrow: Where will customers go?
Tomorrow evening, starting at 5:30 p.m. (local time), your neighborhood Starbucks is closing. Yes, yours — and yours, too. (If you habitable in the U.S., that is.) CEO Howard Schultz has ordered that emergency intensive remedial training, hopefully giving baristas valuable skills they should have l…
The 5 most painful places to get a tattoo
Tattoos aren’t precisely easy to get rid of so the decision to get one is a pretty big deal. You have to not only decide what you want, but plus (and perhaps more importantly) where you want it. whether you’re a seasoned body artist next pain probably has little to no bearing on the location, but wh…
NYC taxis simply running mapping app by unsecured Windows
It’s always interesting when electronic billboards, kiosks, and other installations go haywire and show you the dark heart of Windows lurking underneath, but it’s even more fun when you can actually start poking around — and it looks like there’s a fair bit of poking to do in all those NYC taxi…
Mayor Bloomberg full of gas
America’s greenest mayor generates ample greenhouse gas to choke the Lincoln Tunnel.
BLOOMY AMASSES GAS
Mayor Bloomberg - who has advocated everything from ditching incandescent light bulbs to taxing Midtown commuters to clean the air - produces 364 tons of smog-inducing carbon dioxide a year…
Watermill Center’s ‘Zoo’ Party
The Hampton social-art-and-who-knows-what set went wild at the Watermill Center’s benefit Saturday, which had a “wild chic” dress code. The center’s leading man, the performance art polymath Robert Wilson, dressed on the conservative side and enjoyed the Peking duck egg rolls
