Worried that you won't be able to text your pals a photo of Snooki being dropped in a ball onto Times Square this New Year's Eve? Fear not, the one of you who is actually worried about that, because AT&T has announced they're expanding the capacity of their WiFi in hotzones like Times Square "in order to support its growing number of iPhone customers who cram the place New Year’s Eve."
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More Wi-Fi In Times Square
Caught on Tape: More Rats!
Vynl, 507 Columbus AvenueOn three separate nights cameras caught the critters feasting "on scraps that were left on the dirty kitchen floor and climbing over crates of glassware" at Da Silvano's (pictured top left). The owner there said the problem was caused by nearby construction and recent renovations and claimed he will be throwing out everything edible in the restaurant and starting fresh. Ah, not even the celeb hot spots can escape the wrath of roaches and rodents.
Post Reporter Loses Dog To City Shock
A NY Post reporter is the latest to cover a dog being killed by a Con Ed shock. This time the dog, Mushy, was her own.
Con Ed 'On It' Again
“Sometimes when you walk on them, they shake,” said Erica Busby, 41, who was on her lunch break on York Avenue on the East Side.more ›
Con Ed Uses Livery Cabs As "Site Safety" Personnel
Have you wondered why a livery cab has been parked in the same spot for days? It may be that Con Ed is behind it! The Daily News explains that Con Ed has "come up with a bizarre way to protect the public from stray-voltage hot spots throughout the city - it's hiring livery cab drivers to guard them until crews can fix the problem." The drivers sit in their cars - and sometimes with orange cones on top of the cars - with the following sign:
A stray voltage hazard was discovered here. The coned/taped off area contains an extremely dangerous electrified object or structure.more ›
Staten Island is Hot
Well, maybe not. But parts of it are radioactive. AM New York tells of a secret program conducted by the Department of Energy which had federal helicopters surveying the city to look for areas with abnormal radiation activity. This was in order to help the NYPD prepare in case a "dirty bomb" or other radiation-based weapon was ever deployed in New York. The survey discovered 80 radiological "hot spots" around the city with a particularly unusual hot spot in the Great Kills park in Staten Island.
The Cheap Challenge
Time Out New York came out with their Cheap Eats issue this week and they certainly took no shame in taunting New York Magazine. Time Out's cover is virtually identical to NY Mag's, with reversed colors, down to the box highlighting their star rating system, except that Time Out calls it's issue "The Real Cheap Eats." TONY gleefully notes that "absolutely everything" on their list is under $20, clearly taking a stab at NY Mag's choice to include "bargains" like Lupa.
Wherefore are our Japanese Media Immersion Pods?
According to the New York Times, the new new in Tokyo is spending 8 to 10 hours in a tiny cubicle, binging on media:
On the Plate: Upcoming Food and Wine Events
October 12 & 13: London's "Cocktail King" at Pegu Club
Upcoming WiFi Spots in City Parks
Wi-Fi Salon is installing Wi-Fi into 10 city parks over the next few months. Central Park will have eight hot spots (including the zoo, Delacorte Theater, and Boathouse), as will Orchard Beach, Flushing Meadows, Van Cortlandt, Pelham Bay, Prospect, Riverside, Union Square, and Washington Square Parks. The Daily News says that Battery Park's hotspot, near Battery Gardens, is already running and that Wi-Fi Salon is paying the Parks Department for the right to install the network, hoping to encourage people to join its IP phone service. Whatever the reason, Gothamist can only say hurrah, because if there's one blogging goal we have, it's to live-blog monkeys throwing poo at us from the Central Park Zoo.
'cue Crazy
It seems like the five boroughs have gone slap happy mad for smokin', spicy barbecue. Is all of it up to snuff? Gothamist thinks not. But goodness knows, the selection has increased more than two-fold within the past year or so.
The Empire of "Feh" - Misadventures of a Restauranteur in King's County
If you are unfamiliar with the oft-used term "feh" it is defined by one Yiddish-to-English dictionary as: "It stinks! No good."
Better WiFi and Cell Service Through NY Street Lights
Gothamist on the city's cell phone reception problems study. And the above image from Forgotten NY's street lamps page.
East Village is Still Electrified
After two dogs were shocked by a store's cellar doors on First Avenue and St. Mark's Place on Tuesday night, Con Ed is being questioned again. The incident, not too far from where East Village resident Jodie Lane was fatally electrocuted, raises questions about Con Ed's crackdown on fixing "hot spots" last month. The Utility Workers Union is saying the crackdown was a "con job," as accusations will stary to fly once again that shoddy workmanship contributed to the electrified areas. City Hall promises to keep press on Con Ed, while Assemblyman Richard Brodsky raises a good point, "The real issue is whether these are freak accidents or the inevitable result of a bad system of maintenance and repair."
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East Village "Hot" Zones
Residents feel the chemical compound used to melt the snow aided in corroding the insulation of electrical cables: One resident and dog walker tells the Post, "It's 10 times stronger than Drano. It's nasty stuff. It eats away at the insulation in electrical cables." This compound, calcium chloride, is used because it doesn't damage concrete, while rock salt does; calcium chloride can also melt snow when it's -25 degrees.
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