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Photo taken on 14th St in Manhattan by Horatio Baltz on flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: a person shot at Jefferson Ave and Knickerbocker Ave in Brooklyn, a strong arm robbery at Chambers St and Greenwich St in Manhattan and an unstable building at 17th Ave and 80th St in Brooklyn.
Good stairs take time? East Village Idiot is aghast that the MTA will take 13 days to repair 8 steps at the Grand Street B/D station, at a rate of less than 2/3 of a step repaired each day.
You're sure to enjoy this 1905 silent film footage of a schoolgirl trip to Coney Island.
Jacques Torres wants to enter the dessert truck game.
Popular wisecracking local anchor Steve Bartelstein resigned unexpectedly from WCBS-2. Two years ago, the cancer survivor was fired by WABC-7.
Joe Girardi told reporters today not to expect to see Hideki Matsui in the Yankees lineup anywhere other than as DH until at least June.
Jimmy Fallon was apparently inspired by the recent Details photo shoot to show that A-Rod isn't the only one in love with the man in the mirror.
Who was the originator of making geek chic in WIlliamsburg? Could it have been Barry Manilow?
And while you spent St. Paddy's Day drinking to drown the demons in your head, 3,163 achievers were out there drinking to break the Guinness World record for biggest pub crawl ever. They succeeded.

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By Billy Parker in Miscellaneous on March 18, 2009 6:58 PM

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Tower18

I have no idea if this accounts for some of the delay repairing those stairs, but doesn't concrete take some time to cure?

Politburo

That is the most likely explanation. It can take anywhere from a few days to years for concrete to sufficiently cure, depending on the exact application (as an extreme example, the Hoover Dam is still curing, 75 years after the first concrete was poured). In general, people complaining about the pace of construction have no experience in the field and have no idea of the actual steps performed to do the work.

But a private company could have magically cured the concrete in 6 seconds!!!1

freddynyc

What kind of individual shops at a store like that? Just a thought for the evening...

Mr Mel

"You're sure to enjoy this 1905 silent film footage of a schoolgirl trip to Coney Island."

Billy, you were right, it is totally enjoyable. Sadly everyone in that film is probably dead. If I had to score the movie, no question, I would use "under The Boardwalk", sung by the Drifters however the lyrics would be sung in Russian.