Results tagged “thehoneymooners”

Law & Order is back for its eighteenth season and it is back in its traditional home of Wednesday at 10 p.m., although this week we get two hours starting at 9 p.m. and thanks to a stockpile of scripts written ahead of the writers strike, we can expect oodles of new episodes into the spring. Also thanks to the WGA strike, it will be the best thing on television for the for the foreseeable future.

In 1988, the Jackie Gleason Bus Depot was renamed in memory of the Brooklyn native whose most famous role was acerbic bus driver Ralph Kramden on the classic television show The Honeymooners. In fact the logo for the depot is based on the title sequence for the show. The depot takes up several blocks on 5th Avenue in Sunset Park, across 36th Street from Green-Wood Cemetery. It is one of five that serves Brooklyn...

A look at some noteworthy programs this week:

The MTA is looking into using satellite technology to put "real-time arrival information" at bus stops. The Daily News got a hold of a Transit Authority document that said the MTA would want to "expand the system citywide for its fleet of approximately 4,600 buses," but would test a program out with a portion of buses first, focusing ones that come out of the West 126th depot (the M15, M31, M35, M57, M66, M72 and the M116). Gothamist loves this idea: We constantly do the "Is There Bus in the Yonder" - you know, when you peer down the street, to see if there's a bus coming. The News also says, "Officials hope the info screens will do away with the frustrating tendency of having no buses appear for long stretches, then have a few arrive at once," but Gothamist thinks that will only happen if buses do a sort of skip stop - say one bus stops at every other stop while the one right behind it goes to the stops the preceding bus stopped. We'll stop wondering about it, because we know our bus efficiency dreams are crazy talk.