Same-Sex Marriage Bill REJECTED in New York State Senate
UPDATE: City To Remove 14 Blocks Of Bike Lanes On Bedford Ave.
Catholic League Pissed at PETA
Hamster Rides The 4 Train
Bouncer Beatdown at Jay-Z's 40/40 Club
Here are our picks for the top stories that affected NYC and our state this year. It's been a very eventful year.
Hudson Yards Deal Collapse/Resurrection, May 8 & May 19: A real West Side Story, though one of development and billion dollar dreams. In March, MTA decided to selected Tishman Speyer, which bid $1.004 billion, to transform the West Side rail yards into a 26-acre commercial and residential hub. But then, on May 8, the MTA announced its dealings with Tishman Speyer had reached an "impasse". The Bloomberg administration said that the long-gestating plan to develop the area wasn't dead and sure enough, on May 19, Related and Goldman Sachs stepped into the breach. But in November, the MTA announced slow paperwork was delaying the signing of the contract. Stay tuned! (At left, behind FAIL cat Tishman's propsal; at right, behind NOT FAIL Bloomberg, Related's proposal)
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Every day I give thanks that my wife and kids are healthy and I still have a desk waiting for me. Good luck to you all in 2009!
Thank you for a Year in Review that didn't make me want to barf. Here's to 2009!
You missed the best story of the year... How can you not include the President's near death by shoe? Love him or hate him that had to be one of the top three by my estimate.