Not to neglect the years of toil by Benjamin Kabak over at SecondAvenueSagas, but Wired has a tidy article and nifty diagrams of the new T line project.
Via Wired.com
PS I wonder how many Bostonians will get confused visiting NYC when they ask directions and someone tells them to ‘get on the T’? (Boston refers to [...]

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Step right up and watch your tax dollars fly out the window, folks, because one NYPD officer seems to have invited an open-and-shut multi-million-dollar personal injury lawsuit against the city of New York - and its all caught on tape.
well done.
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Gothamist reports on this incredulous disturbing video of a NYPD officer seemingly picking a [...]

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For $22, the Joby Gorillapod is a no-brainer.
With three interchangeable heads (camera tripod thread, suction cup, adhesive clip), the Joby can latch on to just about anything, and with its flexible legs, can keep it steady just about anywhere.
This thing belongs in any point-and-shooter’s camera bag for taking low-light shots without blurring or choosing [...]

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Surprisingly, the MTA’s Metro-North schedule app works quite well on the iPhone. Here’s how to get to the form instantly from an icon on your home screen.
1. Open Safari on your iPhone and navigate to ‘http://mta.info’
2. Click ‘Metro-North Railroad’
3. Select your schedule East or West of the Hudson.
4. Click the ‘+’ icon
5. Click ‘Add To [...]

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For only $7.2 Billion you too can have your very own tunnel-making machine, which should insure your evil underground Gotham lair is safe from even the most persistent superhero do-gooder.
Barring complete insolvency of MTA (not out of the realm of possibility), the tunnel from 63d St to Grand Central should be finished around 2015. [...]

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Patrick Moberg, the web designer who solicited the internet to find the girl of his dreams, whom he spotted on a NYC subway, has broken up with Camille Hayton, reports numerous sources.

Call it ‘Sliding Doors’ for the Gen Y set (if that reference makes no sense, its because I have never seen ‘Sliding Doors’, although [...]

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