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John Del Signore

  • Name: John Del Signore
  • Location: Brooklyn, NY
  • Job: Senior Editor, Gothamist
  • Tell us about yourself: johnd@gothamist.com
On November 9, 2010 1:19 PM in Times Square Disney Store Wants to Slip You a Mickey, they said:

"Naturally. It's a Disney Store. It ain't the Met."Reading comprehension fail. The sentence is: "...one at least expects something a little epic, or at least a state of the art soul-crushing monument ...

On October 8, 2010 9:08 AM in Bloomberg: No More Food Stamps for Sugary Drinks!, they said:

"Poor people don't pay taxes." What? GTFO. The poor, especially the underemployed working poor, pay disproportionately higher taxes, through sales taxes and payroll taxes. The Institute on Taxation an...

On October 7, 2010 11:59 AM in Tweeting YouTube Rapper Indicted for Running Drug Gang , they said:

With just minutes to spare, you just won the morning. ...

On October 1, 2010 12:38 PM in Bedbugs Tormenting Howard Stern, DDT-Hating Hippies Blamed, they said:

You almost had me convinced, but not quite enough CAPS to close the deal....

On September 24, 2010 12:23 PM in Video: Smartphones May Outsmart MetroCard Swiping, they said:

From Visa's press release (which I just now received): As part of Visa’s participation in the NY transit program, Visa is testing both payment cards and popular smart phones enabled with Visa payWave....

On September 20, 2010 3:21 PM in Now Boats Are Blocking Bike Lanes, Too, they said:

That is a class 3 bike lane....

On August 11, 2010 12:32 PM in Blind Cat, Stolen from SF Shelter, Found Wandering Harlem, they said:

No sir, YOU suck and are misleading. From the Chronicle: "A week after the pair were put up for adoption, Jack Daniels vanished from his enclosure. Someone had catnapped him." "So it remains a myste...

On July 29, 2010 4:47 PM in Police Crackdown On Dog-Toting Subway Riders Continues!, they said:

Haha, nice....

On July 23, 2010 12:01 PM in Flushing Ave Bike Lane Arrives!, they said:

Of all the bike lane comments on all the bike lane posts, I think this is my favorite....

On July 12, 2010 11:41 AM in Lady Gaga Fan Sexually Abused At Today Show, they said:

19-year-olds, dude....

On July 12, 2010 10:34 AM in Lady Gaga Fan Sexually Abused At Today Show, they said:

Fu*kin' Romano. Creep can roll, man....

On June 30, 2010 4:19 PM in Pregnant Lady Assaulted In Fancy Washington Irving HS 'Hood, they said:

So what race were the assailants? There's nothing in what I wrote that suggests anything about their race; it just imagines the vernacular of street thugs who might attack a pregnant woman. I've heard...

On June 30, 2010 12:35 PM in Embattled "New Domino" Project Scores Big City Council Win, they said:

I know, right? He should have held out for a monorail....

On June 9, 2010 1:01 PM in Greenpoint Ave Bridge Crack Sends Cyclist Flying, they said:

It's a cosmic irony. Had he been biking on the middle of the bridge next month, when the bridge is resurfaced, this accident would most likely never have happened. ...

On June 9, 2010 11:06 AM in Bronx High School Senior Has NEVER Missed Day of School, they said:

lolz...

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