Posted by in New York on 03 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Interior Of Planned Brooklyn Nets Arena Revealed
Interior Of Planned Brooklyn Nets Arena Revealed
              Two days before the official ground-breaking for the long-delayed Atlantic Yards megaproject , developer Bruce Ratner and the New Jersey Nets unveiled renderings of the interior of their planned Brooklyn basketball arena. After scrapping an original design...
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Posted by in New York on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Flashback: What Happened To Those Moving Sidewalks?
Flashback: What Happened To Those Moving Sidewalks?
      Did you know that the first time a moving sidewalk was proposed for New York City it was 1871? It was brought up again in 1902 for the Brooklyn Bridge, according to EphemeralNY , after which it was debated in the newspapers. Eventually Mayor Seth Low spiked the idea, forcing generations...
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Posted by in New York on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Peyser: Putting Mental Patients in Their Own Apts is Crazy
Peyser: Putting Mental Patients in Their Own Apts is Crazy
In this city of crazies, lots of people joked that a judge’s ruling to release mental patients from group homes and allow them to live in their own apartments was nothing special. But not Post columnist Andrea Peyser, who calls the decision (cue eye-roll) “insanity.” Peyser opines...
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Posted by in New York on 03 6th, 2010 | No Comments
Fruit Snacks Coming to Central Park Next Month
Fruit Snacks Coming to Central Park Next Month
Starting next month, Central Park vendors will bring apples and bananas to hot dog and ice cream territory. Not only will the new fruit carts’ offerings be healthier than normal vendor fare, it will be cheaper. According the Post , they’ll sell “three bananas for just a buck, half-pound...
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Posted by in New York on 03 4th, 2010 | No Comments
Former Mayor Ed Koch Plans Coup To Retake Albany
Former Mayor Ed Koch Plans Coup To Retake Albany
Photograph of Ed Koch, taken in 2001, by zsumoz on Flickr With Albany crippled by ethics scandals and general political inaction , former Mayor Ed Koch told the Times it’s his duty to shake things up. “Everybody I talked to over the past year has been saying, ‘Ugh, it’s so awful,’”...
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Posted by in New York on 03 4th, 2010 | No Comments
Suspicious White Powder Sent To Brooklyn Judge
Suspicious White Powder Sent To Brooklyn Judge
One person was reportedly exposed to a suspicious white powder after an envelope containing the substance was delivered to Downtown Brooklyn’s Supreme Court building. According to the Daily News , the letter was sent to Justice Abe Gerges, who is currently presiding over a case involving a Staten...
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Posted by in New York on 03 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
NYC Billboards Too Hot for Jersey to Handle
NYC Billboards Too Hot for Jersey to Handle
L: current billboard in NJ via NJ.com/The Star-Ledger; R: past CK billboard on Houston St That racy billboard in Jersey has turned off enough people that the NYC-based billboard company, CBS Outdoor, is buckling under the pressure and taking it down. The grievances aired include that it’s too...
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Posted by in New York on 03 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
Bloomberg: Oops, $722 M Hand Scanners are a "Disaster"
Bloomberg: Oops, $722 M Hand Scanners are a "Disaster"
Since 2007, Mayor Bloomberg has spent $722 million replacing paper time cards with biometric hands scanners for city employees, but now he’s admitted that ” CityTime ” has “been a disaster.” Not only has he spent more than ten times what what was planned on the new computer...
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