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NYC Subway Crash Course
As I headed home yesterday, a woman approached me on the Subway platform asking for directions to Times Square and if the Yellow line would take her there. Holy tourist! Yellow line?! I began...
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Safety in the City
Thanks to shows like NYPD Blue and Law & Order New York has a perception of being particularly unsafe and this thought sometimes keeps my mother up at night. Though those shows are highly...
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NYPD reprioritizes “subway seat hoggery” offenses
Seat Hoggery- a $50 offense Last week local news was abuzz with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s claim that proposed budget cuts would lead to a return of 1990s-ish crime in the city. Kelly’s concern...
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Rough Day for the Subway
Stay off the subway track! Unless you have been living under a rock for the past eight hours, you have probably heard the sad story of the suicide bombers that killed dozens in Moscow this morning. In...
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Props to the Subway Etiquette Artist
Though he has already been applauded by the masses, I feel that Jason Shelowitz and I are very much kindred souls. Schelowitz is the artist behind the subway etiquette signs. If you have not been...
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Hate to Love It: New York Annoyances
Us New Yorkers are a picky bunch. We’re particular about our pizza, our coffee, our walking speed, our subway etiquette, and the list goes on. This morning the NY Post dutifully surveyed New Yorkers...
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The Rat Race: NYC Style
First it was the bed bugs and now it’s the rats. Though these growing plagues are not of Black Death proportions, they’re concerning enough that Senator Perkins took it upon himself to survey 5,000...
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