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Today was Transportation Alternatives' Battle for the Fastest Commute! where a bike rider, subway rider, and cab rider are pitted against each other to see who can get to a destination fastest. This year, the race started at 8:25AM at Fix Cafe on North 11th Street and Bedford in Williamsburg and ended at Bellevue Hospital at East 26th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan.

Gothamist thinks a lot about what Brooklyn still needs- a really great grocery store, better dry cleaners, a safer G train. But we never knew Williamsburg was craving a piano bar.

With more public outrage over the 2-3AM subway rape at a G train station in Long Island City, due to NYC Transit's rules that keep transit clerks inside token booths and the empty police booth in the station, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said there just aren't enough police officers to man every single subway station. Newsday pointed out that even though there are 32 police booths in various stations (think the Bedford L stop), "only 15 of the booths are staffed at any given time." Kelly explained:

We do rotate them, rotate officers covering those booths, just as we rotate coverage under our [Operation] Atlas program.We don't cover all of our Atlas posts. We cover them on a daily, irregular basis you might say. There is nothing unusual about the fact that a particular booth wasn't covered at a particular time. We'd like to have booths in every station to give us the option to put the personnel there, but we could never possibly have enough officers to have a booth at every station."

Well, of course not, but we hope that the MTA and NYC Transit are figuring out better safety measures! Which reminds Gothamist - Albany should cough up the money the MTA needs and the city should reevaluate giving money to the MTA - there's no way the MTA alone can figure out how to improve rider safety when it's struggling for average service. Police sources told Newsday that if the booth were manned, it's possible the attack could have been recorded on a closed-circuit monitor. Gothamist wonders if this incident will spur even more subway stations - and politicans to call for them - to be wired with video cameras.

The steamed up storefront window at Brooklyn’s newest bagel joint, , on Bedford Avenue & N. 7th, right next door to the Bedford L-train stop and the new artisanal pizza place, Fornino. Gothamist is wondering if the new kid on the block can live up to New York City's high standards because even with the low-carb craze on its way out, this is a tough town for bagels.