El Charrito Taco Truck, 201 Richmond Hill Ave., Stamford CT (In front of Beemer’s

Having lived in Northern California for 11 years, its hard for me to express how comforting it is to see a taco truck. In Santa Rosa, there were at least 6 of them, as well as couple dozen taquerias and [...]

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Looks like the damage is much more extensive than the last collapse.
There is extensive damage to the apartments across the street as well as the construction site.
More to follow.
Updates:
Definitely some injuries, people being pulled out of wreckage.
333 E. 91st St (the building under construction), Azure condominiums, planned 34 stories, 20-25 up now
Crane fell 20 to [...]

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Left - Dunnellen Hall is listed at $125M by David Ogilby.
Right - Hillandale in Stamford is listed at $95M by Sotheby’s International Realty.
Forbes.com has posted a new horrifically-annoying but impossible-to-resist automated slideshow of the most expensive homes in the U.S.
Two Farifield County homes made the list, including the 20,000 sf, 10 bathroom  Hillandale estate in [...]

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I’ve been on a photography kick lately. Previously I posted my review of the Canon 870 IS, but this week I ordered a Panazonic FZ18 which I will also post a review on.
The FZ18 was hard to resist - its a VERY hot camera, Amazon ran out of stock and has been rotating through its [...]

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Sorry, once again I have less than 24 hours notice about the appearance of the M-8 Railcar interior mockup.
Tommorrow it will be at Stamford Metro-North Station at slightly more generous hours than the ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ hours at the New Haven demo - 7 to 10 a.m. and from 4 to 7 p.m.
Until [...]

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The story I just posted about WFSB-TV reporter Leon Collins and cameraman Pat Driscoll being arrested at New Haven station has additional information.
Its starting to look like more of a matter of the actions of a specific MTA Police Officer.
According to the reporters, they parked in a parking space marked ‘visitors’ and did not see [...]

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Amazon is having a very respectable Blu-Ray Sale, up to 50% off - and many the titles are actually good movies, which is rare for a movie sale.
I am one of those fools who bought an XBox HD-DVD drive add-on. If you haven’t heard, HD-DVD is dead, so its currently a paperweight.
Eventually, I will probably [...]

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