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The math is a bit weird here; based on the numbers on the Post's site, Hawkins of the Green party had third place in the election, with 1.38%. McMillan got 0.97% and Barron 0.50%, neither of which is ...

Those appear some kind of ticket printers, not metrocard vending machines. In particular, there is no way that I can see to give money to the machines with metrocard slots....

Yeah, what exactly is European about this? Lots of US commuter rail systems have bi-level cars....

There was one of these "lanes" painted on E 3rd St a few weeks ago....

Except that there is no evidence whatever that putting a camera in your house would save you from being blown up. And if the money that would otherwise be spent on something that could in fact save yo...

Did I miss the part where there were not a lot of tourists in Times Square before getting rid of the cars?...

The data source for this app hasn't been updated since September. That seems, well, less than useful....

There are people for whom it's news that cops lie all the time, even in the most petty of cases? Weird. If these “investigators” could only find 20 cases in a whole year, they obviously weren't looki...

The easiest way to know how bad things are at the state level is to note that the Times offers the City as a paragon of good governance....

according to the press release, it's a single speed — not fixed-gear — bike. ...

some organizations think lowering the drinking age will just mean more drunk driving incidentsSounds to me like the problem is driving, not drinking....

Yo, I think it's supposed to say "$354 million". If it were just $354 Bloomberg wouldn't even notice if he ponied it up himself....

this is “good news” for whom exactly? not for those of us who pay rent or might one day like to be able to afford to buy something....

Yes, we spend too much money on rent, but I'd be curious to see how our rent + transportation costs compare with people in cities who buy cars and drive everywhere....