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To all the above — the "all you can carry" recyclables rule has been in effect for a long time now and is pretty well needed. Without it, you would see hauling companies competing to pick up recyclabl...

It's only cool if you take a punch and your hat doesn't fly off....

Do both of these plans count on making the TZ a completely flat bridge -- eliminating the hump which allows ships to pass under? I believe that the trains that can climb steep grades are different th...

I've been knocked off my bike twice while completely stopped at red lights in the Garment District. In both cases, driver-side doors opened right into my side and/or back and with enough force to push...

Because I'm always wrong on these things, I've decided to guess 1916 to every "guess the age" contest going forward....

We have the Times Square shuttle. Does that count?...

I think that photo has been shopped. There's no way the guys with the hand-trucks are walking on the sidewalk instead of the bike lane....

What's missing from the summary here, and the NYT story, is the volume of tourists. I was in front of the Apple store on Broadway on two separate occasions (after the iPhone could be purchased withou...

1926 (Although my instincts say mid-1910s, the higher hemlines say later) ...

Thank you. I kind of wish Gothamist would stop reporting on this as I'm tired of the same old blog posts. Every time I hear a pedestrian say "he almost hit me" I interpret it as "I wasn't paying atte...

As a proud daughter of NJ — and one fiercely proud of its much overlooked and maligned history — I think it's all fair play. NJ wasn't robbed of any money, they screwed up and the money went to Ohio i...

This totally squares with my theory that drivers driving the night shift are the least-experenced and craziest of them all. I've had some harrowing late night rides (completely sober, working late) an...

I'd also like to add that it's equally illegal for a pedestrian to cross against the light. I'm a pedestrian, cyclist and driver in NYC and, being a pedestrian first and foremost, has given me a tru...

I spent some time in Germany and before I got accustomed to the local rules tried to put a glass bottle into a recycle can at the end of a driveway. The Germans are manic about recycling and hefty fil...

UWS, 1983 (I love an outside bet)...