
- If you break down the numbers, the MTA pays an average of $2,000 to escort homeless people from the subways; in related news, Camp Laguardia, the biggest shelter to serve NYC, is being closed
- The Brooklyn Bridge Park could actually cost $300 million - not the $150 million budgeted - to develop
- Yesterday, a water main broke in Central Park, causing flooding to the whole 96th Street Transverse
- Queens is great, except when you're trying to get there by subway from Brooklyn and especially when you're trying during weekend service
- Nothing says Chinese New Year like lager frozen in an ice sculpture of a pig
- We think Mary-Kate Olsen re-purposed her NYU application essay for the NY Times
- The NY Times examines the "toxic" basketball program at Paul Robeson High School (a former coach committed suicide after statutory rape charges, the team is currently suspended after a brawl)
- And today is the 14th anniversary of the first World Trade Center bombing
Photograph by dagomatic on Flickr





G Train FTW
Why do people ignore a perfectly good bus system? (Well, not perfectly good, but useful.) If I read the person's blog right, she could have taken the B61 to Williamsburg and then taken the Q54 directly to Jamaica Station. Simple.
Except for the G, to get to any other Borough, you have go through Manhattan.
I don't know any other train system that’s like that. I guess we have to live with it.
Does anyone know where that picture was taken? Just curious.
DHS announced the Camp LaGuardia closure in mid-November.
jvm, it looks like red hook to me.
jvm, it looks like red hook to me.
Yeah, that's Red Hook. I think it's off a small park off Ferris St. If you go to the end of the pier, the southern end of Governor's Island looks close enough to swim to. Immediately to the left, there's an old 19th Century brick warehouse that looked like it was turned into condos the last time I was there.
jvm, it looks like red hook to me.
That's near the intersection of Coffey and Ferris Sts. in Red Hook. You can see it in this GoogleMap.
have you ever taken the B61 for any distance? it takes over an hour from greenpoint to red hook.