Extra, Extra

- A police officer was suspended for drinking on the job, thanks to the resident who saw him pull over to pee on the street
- With the breakup of Cendant, the NY Times calls the AOL-Time Warner merger one of the worst mergers ever! That should be a show on CNBC!
- Baby daddy Carlos Leon takes Madonna's kids to the park and flips the bird
- Starts and Fits shows how sidewalks have been shrinking [via Curbed]
- The Politicker analyzes the NY Times's analysis of Bloomberg's Bronx Terminal Market deal
- Ever wondered about a Jitney type ride between NYC to Boston as a step up from Chinatown buses? Well, now there's Limoliner! At $79 one way and $164 roundtrip, it's cheaper than Acela but more expensive than non-Acela train service.

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By Jen Chung in News on October 24, 2005 6:01 PM

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trainsrule

Amtrak is stressfull? I've never had a problem.

limoliner lover

If you book a round trip on Limoliner this week,15% off, $134. The price includes a meal served by an attendant and a movie. Wireless internet connection at each seat for those who just have to work. Clean bathroom too. This is the only stressfree way to travel between Boston and NYC.

jetblew

It's about $100 round trip on JetBlue from JFK to Beantown with all the taxes and fees. It will also take you longer than your flight to get from Manhattan to JFK via the subway+AirTrain to keep things on the cheap...

But hey, the TSA boob grab/anal probe during check-in is free! For some of us, it's all the action we're gettin' this week.

Dave H.

I don't subscribe to the assumption that all cops are heroes either, but the NYPD guys I know are pretty decent people. The same way one can't paint with a broad brush positively goes the same way when one of several thousand does something ridiculously stupid. And while I doubt most of them are "heroes", I'd definitely say they're braver than the average person. What would most people say to an HR interview for a low-paying job that dealt with difficult customers and the possibility of being shot at or assaulted in the workplace? I was miserable once dealing with abusive people on a phone-solicitation job in college. I can't imagine what it must be like to have to deal with that crap in person, and I was calling supposedly upstanding citizens.

Amtrak stinks. I'd rather take my chances immolating on a Chinatown bus for my money.

joe

More to the point, Limoliner has been around for ages now.

plane jane

Helen, you forget that it takes about 1.5 hours to get to the airport by subway and Air Train, and you have to go through security, wait for the boarding process and then sit on the runway on a 23-plane line, which totals up to another hour.

Helen

Aren't tickets to Boston like $25 each way on Jet Blue right now? Who needs a bus?

homeopt

This is why I never bought into the whole "cops are heroes" bullshit. Most of them are like the cop that got caught. They do whatever they want because they know they can get away with it most of the time. Of course some stupid ones like this idiot are too stupid for their own good.