Extra, Extra

- Ruh roh. Several subway lines are experiencing problems because of the heavy rain. From the MTA: Due to weather conditions, E, F and R service is currently suspended in Queens. V service is suspended in both directions. 2 and 3 service has resumed with delays. 4, 5 and 6 service has resumed with delays. There is no 1 service south of Chambers Street.
- The angry ex-member of a commune knew when and where to shoot the commune's leader, since the leader posted a message on the commune's website about going to see "An Inconvenient Truth"
- Does Eliot Spitzer think he has the city vote all tied up? Because he claimed that upstate pizzeria Cam's has the best pizza - and the Daily News rightly questions that
- Daniel "Hudson Yards" Doctoroff wants there to be a faster way for downtown businesspeople to get to JFK - and there's an interesting reminder about what if the Van Wyck had been double decked!
- Six men are awaiting arraignment in connection to the fatal beating of a Hoboken man in Chelsea
- Looks like there's not going to be a beach built under the Brooklyn Bridge. Sad news for lovers of smelly, dirty beaches!
- Peter Meehan gets it 100% right in his review of Ditch Plains-- the lobster rolls are small, and everything is way overpriced. Go to Mermaid Inn instead.
- Perez has a bit of a scoop: he says Page Six editor Richard Johnson got arrested for drunk driving last night.
- And speaking of bad behavior by rich people: Eater hears a rumor about CSFB bankers bribing their way past the line at Shake Shack. Scandal!

Dusk at S5th Street in Williamsburg by Jake. For more photo goodness, come to NYCPB7 tonight at 6:30!

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on June 2, 2006 5:50 PM

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Andrew J. Lederer

So true, C. The history of highways is that the more you build, the more they drive. The only way a double-decked Van Wyck would have helped is if one of the decks had been built for rail. (And there once was a rail line on the Van Wyck right of way -- a special, temporary train to the 1939-'40 World's Fair, which was thereafter dismantled.)

c

If the Van Wyck had been double-decked, we would have twice as many cars, twice as much pollution, twice as much sprawl, and much more than twice the congestion. It would have solved nothing.

Instead, let's remember that Robert Moses, when planning the Van Wyck, refused to even allocate space for a future rail right-of-way.

Now, we're all paying much more than it would have cost to build a rail link back then. If we do build one now, why not make drivers entering JFK pay an EZPass charge? We could fund the AirTrain expansion, and reduce the current fare.

Kapil

That Shake Shack story makes me so mad (that I'm not rich).

Robert Moses

The wheels have come off.

Stevennnn

Good thing I'm not in the city today.

Kojak

"Due to weather conditions, E, F and R service is currently suspended in Queens."

And they said I was crazy to take today off. CRAZY.

Look whos laughing now