fivealive

i love how they first meet in random places, as if they just arrived, with their suitcases and all .. at the piers, on the boardwalk ... you know, where the planes land. ...

i'm not sure that all of the designers actually ride a bike in the city -- you need enough space to lock the front wheel + frame with a relatively short length of chain, so the low small ring racks ar...

do these regulations affect greenmarket retailers too? for example, milk thistle farm charges 4.75 per quart (4 quarts to a gallon), minus a $1 bottle return refund. it's good milk but really expens...

it's true, a taxi will run your ass over to get to a passenger. watch out when you see anyone hailing a cab. soon after, a yellow beast will emerge and, at road-blocking angle, slam on the brakes ri...

just because he can't see doesn't mean he'll miss contextual information. if the files are on the computer, he could also get his own information via speech synthesis. ...

Intersections like Allen + Delancey suffer from people driving too fast, poorly-timed lights, too much traffic, poor lighting, and inability to see oncoming traffic (from a pedestrian's point of view)...

We could have had these public toilets all over the city more then ten years ago if it hadn't been for the handicapped lobby. Smaller, cheaper, easier to clean, non-wheelchair accessible versions ...

parts of red hook are really easy to get to -- just walk 10 minutes west from the carroll street F train stop. yesterday it took me 45 minutes to walk from red hook to chinatown. by bike it's abou...

who would have thought that lime and alcohol, two naturally antimicrobial substances, would be responsible, via the oversight of bartenders worldwide, for infecting ... um... nobody!...

this could be great. maybe they'll go somewhere that people see while walking up the stairs so they'll have a few seconds to consider in which direction to walk. otherwise everyone will stop at the ...

People drive like crazy on the wide avenues of the upper east side. Sometimes it's better to break the traffic rules, especially if they weren't designed for bikes. Which leads me to ... why not inv...

my kitchen window view is so much better since moving away from that horrible intersection. it's so obnoxious to impose shit like that on everyone, especially in such a one-way manner, out of the rea...

I had a ticket but couldn't get in because they oversold the event. There were several hundred people in the line behind me who also didn't get in. I changed my plans that evening so i could be ther...

red hook doesn't get invaded by drunken twentysomethings every weekend .. you can get great food for cheap .. rents are reasonable .. there is a decent art and music scene (though we need more venues!...

"However, it will cost $9.4 billion a year for 20 years to eliminate all bridge deficiencies" we spend 4.5 billion per month in iraq .. wtf! 1. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/200278...