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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a power outage on Beach Channel Dr. in Queens, a shooting on Nostrand Ave. in Brooklyn, and a car in the water at Rockaway and Brookville Blvds. in Queens.
- If you think you're buying a super-cheap iPod at a Mom and Pop electronics store, you're probably buying a fake.
- Some Queens residents will be relieved to know that LIRR trains will no longer blast their horns for 15 to 20 seconds as they approach the crossing at the Little Neck Parkway. About 80 trains pass there every day.
- Dance choreographer Michael Kidd died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. The award-winning choreographer was 92.
- The MTA is spending $2.5 million, or a little more than $700 a worker, to buy new uniforms for token booth clerks.
- The cousin of the man arrested in Georgia in the case of the Carol Simon-Hayes deadly shooting says his cousin is innocent, never owned a gun, didn't know Simon Hayes was dead, and it was a coincidence that he left the state after the shooting.
- Five different shootings around the city last night left four people dead.
- Now it's Albany County DA David Soares who may be on the receiving end of a subpeona in the ongoing e-mail scandal that's been embroiling Gov. Spitzer's administration.
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As for the trains that blast their horns as they approach Little Neck station, I guess that just means they've given up on trying to protect the morons that cross the tracks both at the crossing and between stations -- and that includes my own parents!
I wonder if the mortality rate till go up now. I'll tell my parents not to count on hearing the train horns anymore. And make sure I'm in their will.
(We lived across the street from the station, and we got used to the horns blowing. Never lost any sleep because of the express trains going through.)
People have been crossing the tracks at various points of the Little Neck train station, even during rush hour with the barriers down, for at least the last thirty years.
Last time I looked, the third rail protectors at the Great Neck end were sagging from all the traffic it's endured over the years from both Little Neck residents of the immediate neighborhood as well as the commuters who drive in and park on 255th street and then duck through the wire fence to walk up to the tracks, cross them into the parking lot, and then climb the stairs of the overpass onto the Manhattan bound train (or vice versa).
There are even some residents parallel to the station who have had gates built into their backyard fences that open onto the area behind the platform, for direct access!
They have all counted on the blaring horns to warn them to either step up their pace as they cross the tracks, or hide momentarily as the train passes.
5 shootings and 4 deaths. Merry god damn Chirstmas everyone!
5 shootings and 4 deaths. Merry god damn Christmas everyone!
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Are MTA employees being fitted for Armani suits?
i wanted to use this shot for extra, extra today-- but i guess dave overruled me!
I guess we know who the real boss is!
Keeping it real on Christmas eve because homies take no holidays, know what I'm sayin'?
In other news, a hedgefund manager and daughter who were in a plane crash in Panama has been found both dead and
at the SF Zoo, a tiger killed a visitor.
That is the second christmas that dog has lead Gothamist...
and its not even a New York City DOG.
Oh, I know who the boss is, and I know it's not me. But there comes a time when a man's got to draw a line, and naked Hillary is one of those times.
dave,
this is a quote from the subway uniform link:
NYC Transit spokeswoman Deirdre Parker said the per-worker cost was approximately $738, and the total cost $2,583,245.
why did your point state "a little more than 2,500 a worker"?
You are right. I misread that line in haste. Thanks for the correction.
cheap ipods work, but not with mac or itunes/
Heh, even the MTA employee interviewed in the article thinks it's absurd to spend that much money on uniforms.