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The League of American Bicyclists has awarded New York City a bronze medal for bicycle friendliness. League representatives met with Mayor Bloomberg and DOT commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, who sometimes cycles to work, at City Hall yesterday to present the award. Though bronze is the lowest rung on the friendliness ladder, New York City is the only community in the region to be designated a Bike Friendly Community (BFC).

When Super Sunday rolls around, there will be a lot of questions that will be answered. Will the Giants stop the undefeated season of the Patriots? How will Eli Manning perform in the biggest game of his career? And how Tom Brady's foot be? While there are clearly lots of other questions, one question that isn't so obvious is...who's the hotter quarterback. Is it the boy from New Orleans with Southern charm? Or is it the quarterback from California's Bay Area with the supermodel girlfriend?

It's back to the Upper East Side dog run fight: Remember how dog owners are battling over a future 6,200 square foot (!) dog run on the Upper East Side, because tiny dog owners want a separate space for their petite pooches while large dog owners want a continuous space? The Parks Department has decided to put up a temporary fence (1,200 square feet for the small dogs, 5,000 for the big) to see how things go, but New York magazine reveals results of a dog census.

Lori Light, owner of a nine-pound Maltese named Rupert, has taken a dog census of 103 buildings near the park. The result (small dogs: 1,148; big dogs: 328) shows, she says, that “78 percent of the dog population is getting less than 19 percent of the space.”

Know what we're curious about? The weight of the dogs. But a reader commented that originally the dog run would have given 2,000 square feet to small dogs, but at a Community Board 8 meeting, no small dog owners were present and the small dog run plan was eliminated. And New York Tails had an article about dog run segregation - it's a heated issue all over town, but manager of the Tompkins Square Dog Run Garrett Rosso said before putting in a small dog run, there "were over 67 serious dog fights and one reported death in 2001," but after, there's only been "one reported injury to small dogs."

THEATER: John Fugelsang, the son of an ex-nun and a former monk, declares war on right-wing evildoers in his one man comedy All the Wrong Reasons. Targets include sex, politics, Klansmen, stem cells and the drug war (which Fugelsang recently skewered on the Huffington Post.) Theater blogger What’s Good/What Blows raves: “…once he settles in to tell the story of trying to get through Orlando airport with an 1/8th of weed in his sock and another 1/8th in his girlfriend's bra, you're pretty much on the edge of your seat till the end. He even throws in some touching realizations. This is a great evening to take a date to.” - John Del Signore

• A $100,000 donation to study how a free subway can save money? Yes, someone really did it: The NY Sun explains that 92 year old Theodore Kheel has donated the 100 G's to the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility to study the concept. The belief is that making subways and other mass transit free, then drivers would have an incentive to switch. The IRUM is the group behind the 42nd Street light rail idea vision42 and Auto-Free New York. Fun fact: Kheel (who does use a chauffeur - as a commenter notes, Kheel needs assistance and uses a cane - but would be willing to pay a fee in order to be in a car) represented Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo in their legal fight to show The Gates.
• The 7 train had its first weekend of service disruptions, and it really sucks. NY1 spoke to customers, who say, "The weekend service is already slower, but now it's 30 more minutes to get into the city. It's ridiculous," and "There's so many people here that are working people, and they have no other options, some of them. It's very difficult." The service disruptions are due to signal and track switch upgrades along the line and will last through March. 7 train riders, you tell us how your weekend travels were.
• And New York magazine asked design firm SHoP to create a fourth airport proposal-counterpoint because who in NYC really cares about Stewart Airport in Newburgh. SHoP's idea? A high-speed shuttle that would travel between all three airports and stop at major neighborhoods, plus improvements to JFK. It's the stuff dreams and billions of dollars are made of.

- And New York magazine looks at why viewers OD'd on The O.C., but let's face it, we all wanted Marissa to die.

co-authored with his brother Steven Goldman and drawn by Joe Bucco, about a stolen election and the work of activists and a White House insider to expose the federal government's corruption.

The Daily News has been regularly reminding readers about the murder of 16 year old Chanel Petro-Nixon in order to hopefully reach someone who knows what happened. Petro-Nixon disappeared one afternoon, on her way to apply for a job at Applebee's, only for her body to be discovered days later in a garbage bag on the street. Petro-Nixon's father Gavin Nixon said, during his first visit to where her body was found, "We need to come together with the Police Department and speak up so justice can be done. It's about time the community comes together and realizes that it's all of our concern." A number of organizations (including the Daily News) have donated money to the reward program, and the reward money is now close to $30,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer; to call Crime Stoppers, (800) 577-TIPS.

It's hot. It's sticky. You need a cool, refreshing drink, and a non-alcoholic one because it's the middle of your work day. Gothamist suggests a chocolate egg cream, as its fizz will perk you up and its sweetness (but not too sweet) will satisfy your sweet tooth. Many swear by Brooklyn's Fox's U-Bet syrup, and the Fox's recipe says to spoon in the U-Bet syrup before adding the milk. But this might be blashphemous, as Chowhound's Jim recommends that you put the U-Bet in after the milk (almost freezing) and seltzer (siphon bottles only!) in order to avoid getting "sticky brown head instead of a fluffy white one."

It's skateboarders versus the neighborhood as Soho residents and city agencies are eyeing the Greene Street skate shop, Etnies, for its rooftop skate ramp in a historical district. The Landmarks Preservation Commission said, "We received an application from the company, but it was never completed. So the ramp was never approved." Ha - that's totally feeding into the stereotype of irresponsible skaters! Residents have also complained about the noise from the ramp; the Post says that the ramp was "built without protective fencing or construction permits", too! Wow, that is pretty underground. But best of all is Etnies' statement:

"As skateboarders, we are used to this kind of resistance - but it doesn't hold us back! The mini-ramp will continue to be a great investment for etnies in the event the city forces us to remove it. We will donate it directly to New York skateboarders and transport it over to our friends at KCDC [skateboard shop] in Brooklyn who will keep their neighbors awake."

Touche! We suppose the downtown skaters will just head to Union Square, Washington Square Park, or Lafayette Street (which is like skater central at times).

From what we've seen, NASCAR fans are always passionate - wearing their favorite driver's colors, belittling drivers they dislike, cheering for crashes - but Gothamist has never heard of a fan putting a public official in a headlock. Until now, that is. At last night's public hearing about a proposed racetrack in Staten Island, things got a little heated once City Councilman Andrew Lanza took the stage. According to the Staten Island Advance, a supporter of the track plan Continue reading "NASCAR Meeting Gets NASTY"