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- Should non-citizen legal immigrants be allowed to vote in City Council races? After all, they do pay local taxes.
- Sad: Colors, the restaurant founded by workers from the WTC's Windows on the World is foundering, and may shut down.
- Some people want to add a compass rose to Columbus Circle-- maybe that will help all the tourists get where they need to go.
- The voice caught up this week with Claw, one of New York's most respected graf artists-- and one of the only women ever to go all city.
- Here's a gallery of Lubavitcher buildings around the world-- all modeled on 770 Eastern Parkway, their original HQ. [Via Kottke.]
- Somehow the city has spent $16m on the as yet unbuilt Brooklyn Bridge Park-- more money than it cost to build the Brooklyn Bridge. (Except, you know, not really, since the Brooklyn Bridge was built in the 1880s.)
Lower East Side, by Joe Holmes.
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Well at least Colors isn't *floundering* because that would be really sad news.
will the compass be set to manhattan north, or geographic north?
Well, non-citizen, legal immigrants do, in fact, pay income (federal) tax as well, but we're not talking about letting them vote in presidential races.
Yes, absolutely.
For example, I have been living in Toronto for three years now, and I am very actively engaged in local politics, am frequently quoted in the news about civic issues, but I cannot vote for the mayor or my councilor.
I think this is backward, as I know more about local politics than the majority of Torontonians.
I think it is definitely possible to be a New Yorker without being an American.
$15 million Brooklyn Bridge is $15 billion today. They're off to a good start.
Less fuzzy math might put 1883 $15 milion at about $300 million today. A more likely target.
In re Colors - I got a look at their business model before they opened and am surprised any sane person financed their workers paradise. Sympathy draws someone in once maybe. In the end communism failed...again.
I love this bicycle picture!