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Walking to Do.*
Today is rich is headline possibility, regardless of where one falls on the political spectrum, or, perhaps more significantly, where one lives on the potential commuter path from say, downtown to Canarsie. Being a member of the exceedingly marginal media allows me the latitude to reflect what might be expected from my brethern: hoots and […]
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Let me be the first to make a Nancy Sinatra reference.
“Daddy, where were you during the Great Transit Strike of 2005?” “Why, honey, the exact same place I was during the Great Blackout of 2003 (or was it 2004?) — sitting in a Manhattan apartment, getting stoned, and wondering if the bar scene was going to be really boisterous. Then I remembered I was really […]
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Eloquent, attractive. Irrelevant?
In a fit a nearly responsible writing/vituperation-justification (and providing a chance to write another of those patented really long posts), I took myself to the Zero Culture event last evening, being of one those well-dressed serious-looking art/culture hangers-on (read: I’m still a little too young to troll the 92nd Street Y), and a little curious […]
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1,000,000,000.
What does a billion — excuse me, make that $1.4 billion, but, really, who is counting? — get you downtown? Nothing, apparently. This week’s theater of the absurd downtown featured a scuffle about Liberty Bonds. Set to expire in just about four years (roughly the same amount of time that has elapsed since the attacks, […]
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We Don’t Need No Education(al Facilities).
Water always reaches its own level, which is how the less charitable among you would characterize the hulking and banal presence of NYU in Greenwich Village and it’s virus-like spread eastward. Even if you wouldn’t, dorms and near-dorms are the latest battle line in the war of what I guess should be called institutional gentrification […]
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I buy black on the outside, because black is how I consume on the inside.
If you missed it, likely because you were up at five in pursuit of Incredible Deals, are a complete moron who is in the thrall of the worst aspects of American culture, or simply doing your damndest to hasten the total system of capitalism, the last stage before the Worker-s Paradise (it’s the holiday, pick […]
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Hey, we thought their court system was a pretty good idea too.
Though it turns out it wasn’t going to be a cornerstone of his second administration (or he is the craftiest bureaucrat ever), it is still notable that congestion pricing made the headlines only a day after Bloomberg’s administration. It seems obvious that our most famous subway commuter would think it rational for private vehicles pay […]
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My job is done. Well, obviated.
If you find this blog too poorly edited and not illustrated enough, check out this. If you are reading this right now dance on over to WNYC and listen to the Brian Lehrer show and listen to the interview with the author Kate Ascher (also VP of the NYC Economic Development Corporation). Some sample pages […]
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Contempt in a Teapot.