About those new decals on the yellow taxis, we agree with Time Out New York:
“the current flower-power art project looks like the Summer of Love threw up”
As ex-cabbies, we find the decals vaguely reminiscent of Thomas Hoving’s famously phony “be-ins” back in the 60s (back when Hoving was Mayor Lindsey’s Parks Commissioner).
Still, with one hand, we sort-of applaud Garden in Transit’s attempt to do something original. Organized by Portraits of Hope, a non-profit creative therapy program for seriously ill and [...]
Posted in The City on October 30th, 2007 | 
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THE ORIGINAL CITY HALL SUBWAY STATION CLOSED IN 1945, and since then has remained hidden as we, unawares of the beauty below us, dragged our sorry asses from home to work and back again. Now we can glimpse what used to be. If you stay on the #6 train, past the final stop–the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station–you will make a u-turn (don’t freak out; transit officials allow riders to stay aboard for the u-turn) until you are facing up-town. [...]
Posted in The City on October 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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After Carlos Beltran looked at a third strike to end last year’s Mets, we didn’t think it could get worse.
It did.
The best we can say about this year’s Mets is that the shlong they sucked in the sky reserved for baseball folding acts–the 1951 Dodgers, the 1964 Phillies, the 1978 Red Sox–is flavored with Yankee subterfuge.
For three years we’ve been saying the obvious: the Mets are led by a Yankee in Mets clothing. Willie Randolph, as those gazillionaires in [...]
Posted in The City on October 1st, 2007 | No Comments »
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