The new Yankee Stadium Metro-North stop to go online in 2009 is posing some logistical challenges to scheduling, reports LoHud.com’s ‘Going Places’:
Left: Say hello to your new seatmates on the way home from work. They appreciate you making the extra slow loop-stop so they can share your hour-long ride home.
“The station, which will become [...]

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Tonight at 7:30 PM (I guess they were trying to show people how late they work when we’re paying attention) the New York City Council approved the congestion pricing measure by a vote of 30-20.
The measure now goes to the state legislature, who is expected to rubber-stamp the measure.
If approved, the new tolls could be [...]

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Today’s final opening day at the current Yankee Stadium was postponed due to rain, and will be played tomorrow night at 7:05 PM, weather permitting (Forecastfox is showing a thundercloud for PM tomorrow as I speak).
In more uplifting Yankee’s news, all 3 Metro-North lines will stop at Yankee Stadium next year! LodHud.com reports that [...]

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Photo: Artukus
A study published in the Yale Law Journal in 2004 found that African-American cab drivers in New Haven (Yale researchers don’t look far outside their window for subjects, I guess) were tipped on average 6.6% less than their white counterparts.
The most disturbing part of the study is that the disparity existed even when the [...]

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The lack of public toilets in Manhattan is a regrettable failure of modern civilization.
Especially in a tourist city, a walking city, a shopping city - the situation is pretty, ahem, piss-poor. According to the New Yorker, back in the 30’s, New York City was fairly well equipped to handle the situation - however, rising [...]

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The New York Times is reporting that some MTA subway improvements which were promised as part of the recent fare increase are being postponed due to other economic factors, including the slumping housing market and Wall St. financials.
The Times quotes MTA CFO Gary J. Dellaverson as calling the financial outlook ‘gloomy’ amongst other sad terms, [...]

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Mr. Stamford was all up in arms today about people ‘blocking the box’ - i.e., drivers who block intersections. I can’t say I blame him, it is annoying, especially the other side of the issue, which is people who honk to get you to cross an intersection even though you’d be blocking.
Here is a picture [...]

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