Busy, Locally: The MTA’s War Against The City of New York
You are not dreaming, this gloriously empty train only happens at 4AM. (photo credit: Henry Casey) I don’t think of local news, especially in its televised form, to be worth the attention it receives....
View ArticleA Godless Socialist’s Christmas
Santa Claus, that fat old sod, as drawn most famously by Thomas Nast A Brief Preface Somewhere between the years 6 BC and 6 AD (to use the Christian nomenclature) in Bethlehem (one of the only...
View ArticleFelipe on the Bottom Rung
The building where "Felipe" lived I try not to get personal in these blog posts, but sometimes… I am a teaching artist who is currently in the first of a four-year research project to determine the...
View ArticleWorst Hundredth Birthday Present Ever!
100 years ago at 29 Washington Place, New York, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory went up in flames and down in history as the largest man-made disaster in New York until 9/11. The fire forced New York...
View ArticleThe Four Fails Of Bicycling in a Big City, Plus: The Win Made of Fail
Some background: about a year ago, I threatened to be a more avid cyclist, a commuter. However, thanks to a pretty bad winter and a workplace that doesn’t really support cycling, I waved the white...
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