June 22, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a water rescue at Emmons Ave. and Knapp St. in Brooklyn, a serious assault on West 37th St. and 11th Ave. in Manhattan, and a bank robbery on Flatlands Ave. in Queens.
- The body of the Ecuadorian man who was killed in a bar fight earlier this week will be returned home at the expense of a businessman, also from Ecuador, who appreciated the man's abbreviated attempt to support his family from abroad.
- The woman thought to have been trying to throw herself from the Staten Island Ferry in a suicide attempt was actually just drunk.
- Showing up subway-riding Mayor Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff commutes to work on his bike. How is it again, with bike-riding DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, that NYC remains a bike-unfriendly city?
- Woody Allen is trying his hand at opera, from the safe distance of LA. He'll be staging one act of Puccini's three-part "Il Trittico" for the Los Angeles Opera company.
- A jury found that the author who published under the name JT Leroy did defraud a film company and she's been ordered to pay damages.
- The Snapple Theater Center has renamed the space currently hosting a revival of "The Fantasticks" The Jerry Orbach Theater.
- Politics reach a new level of childishness as Giuliani says of Bloomberg: He's copying me.
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We need bike racks on buses. They would only cost a few hundred dollars per bus, but would give us many benefits.
Giuliani is a jealous little school girl.
The public would take bikers more seriously if they weren't such an affront to pedestrian traffic. I am constantly bombarded by bikers who are going the wrong way on my one-way street, crossing on a red light, and riding on the side of the street that is not the bike lane. If bikers would start abiding by the laws, maybe the laws would start taking them into consideration.
Bikers might take pedestrians more seriously if the pedestrians understood concepts like "don't walk" and trying to skip across the street, failing to realize that slowing down traffic causes ripple effects throughout the city. You'd think their mommas had never taught them to wait their turn.