Saturday night, my wife and I went into the city for a dinner party in Manhattan. We hit some serious traffic, which would have been easily avoidable, except all of the traffic signs warning us of what lay ahead had been hacked to read cute little messages (actually, some of them, like this one, were [...]

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Flickr user and NYC resident jwilly has a great peek at the wealthiest rooftops in NYC.

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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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Hey you learn something new every day. Today I was digging around the MTA site, and found out that they videotape their meetings and put them on the website – that’s great!
So, I watched the latest Board Meeting dated 05/28/2008 (well, most of it, it can get kinda boring).
It started with everyone congratulating each other [...]

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Connecticut DOT has I-95 pretty well covered with traffic cams, but the interface isn’t all that great.
Mobile|Traffic has their own page for navigation, which is better, I think.
So, if you were thinking of heading up to Norwalk to get something at Best Buy or whatever, you might want to check the trouble exits in [...]

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Lots of you know the secret of Track 61 at Grand Central, which houses the custom train car built for FDR so he could be transported beneath the city without exposing the public to the extent of his Polio disability.
Today’s Matt Lauer examined the mystery of Track 61 for the Today Show:

Via Trainjotting

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Apparently there was some last minute politicking to bring the Congestion Pricing initiative onto the State Assembly floor for a public vote – but to no avail – according to Elizabeth Benjamin for the Daily Politics blog at The Daily News.
Mayor Bloomberg had some things to say about that.

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