April 25, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an overturned auto on Christopher and New Lots Aves. in Brooklyn, a scaffold collapse on East 166th St. and Sherman Ave. in the Bronx, and a fire with evacuated animals on Greenpoint Ave. and 46th St. in Queens.
- If you're the head of a major corporation that wants to make a mark on the New York skyline by occupying space in a tower that comes with all the cachet of being above the Port Authority Bus Terminal, you may be in luck.
- Limousine company Attitude New York sued one of its former drivers for setting up his own company, E-Z Ryder Limousine, and allegedly poaching celebrities from its client list. The plaintiff wanted E-Z Ryder banned from ever soliciting a client he'd driven while with Attitude, but the judge thought that was a stretch and the case was decided in favor of the defendant.
- Brooklyn Assemblyman Karim Camara was arrested for drunk driving this morning and upstate police are thorough. Not only was Camara witnessed weaving through traffic doing 65 m.p.h. in a 30 m.p.h. zone, but he smelled of alcohol and was slurring his words when the cops pulled him over. Then he was given several field sobriety tests, each of which he failed. He refused to take a breathalyzer test, however, so he still has the tiniest shred of plausible deniability.
- Nathan Kensinger found his way into the tunnels underneath Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards and, thank goodness, remembered to bring his camera.
- Trailer for the
street artgrafittivandalismmovie Bomb It. It's about paint in public places. - Incredible slideshow of pictures of the aircraft carrier Intrepid in a Bayonne, NJ drydock.
- The five-judge panel that refused convicted terrorist helper Lynne Stewart's bid to resign from the bar after her conviction was apparently just waiting for an opportunity to disbar her themselves.
- SHORPY, The 100-Year-Old Photoblog, has a great picture of workmen building the Manhattan Bridge taking a break in 1907, back when New York was cool.
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The port authority tower is so.... plain, and that billboard so.... huge.
On the other hand, pretty much anything's a step up. It's kind of like "old" Penn station, but instead the present building is a piece of shit, and the one that's going to be built is actually quite nice.
Keep the current Bus Depot the way it is...It's one of the few remaining places in Manhattan that is gritty....
Yeah, I'm sure New York in 1907 was cool...as cool as getting polio.
"judge thought that was a stretch" in a post about limousines? nice work dave! seriously.