Just when you thought it was safe to go back underground: The announcement that video ads are coming to the subway — in the form of playoff baseball highlights beamed by TBS to specially-equipped cars on the 42nd Street Shuttle … Continue reading
Beneath the longest headline known to man or blog, I examine the possible fallout of the NYC subway’s first-ever naming-rights deal: That resounding “Ewwwww!” you heard emanating from Brooklyn was the sound of locals discovering that as part of Bruce … Continue reading
Because you can’t have too much of a good thing, I report for the Village Voice today on New York’s experiment with shutting Manhattan streets to traffic: After trial runs in the hinterlands of Brooklyn’s Bedford Avenue and Montague Street, … Continue reading
What do ocean trawling and mass transit have in common? unintended consequences. There’s a word for it in the fishing world: “bycatch.” That’s the unfortunate tendency, when you’re trying to net one type of seafood — say, shrimp — to … Continue reading
New York City is facing the prospect of bus and subway fare hikes again, but could there be another way to do this? As if New Yorkers hadn’t been beset by enough bad news of late — foreclosures going through … Continue reading
New York state has a new governor today (the old one was defective), and what better time to rethink the dumb ideas of past administrations? Among the items topping David Paterson’s to-do list as he takes office today — get … Continue reading
The bike bomb someone set off outside a Times Square recruiting station last week had most of the city news media thinking about terrorism; me, it had thinking about the odd things being done in the name of fighting terrorism: … Continue reading
Okay, looks like that New Year’s resolution didn’t go all that well. I may switch to a more continuous-blog format for this page shortly; in the meantime, here’s a two-month recap of my doings and whereabouts: I usually start things … Continue reading
Whoops, looks like I skipped January entirely, and the first day of February as well. Actually, given what January was like, that might not have been a bad idea … but I digress. The big news around these parts is … Continue reading