Author Archives: Jane Smith
New Yorkers Would Breathe Sigh of Relief for Doomed 7 Train Exension to New Jersey If They Knew About It |
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12:08 am, 04/04/2012 |
We all know there’s nothing New Yorkers love more than giving more bridges and tunnels to the bridge and tunnel crowd. Joseph Lhota, Chairman of the MTA, essentially put the kibosh on an extension of the 7 train into [Read More] |
Occupy Wall Street is BACK |
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12:17 am, 03/20/2012 |
Everyone pick up that poster-board and thick marker again and head back down to Zuccotti Park, cause Spring is here! Not freezing your extremities off makes it way easier to protest, and with election season ramping up, there is [Read More] |
Underground Funding Source to Fund Underground Park |
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9:30 pm, 02/28/2012 |
The “LowLine”, (AKA the “Delancey Underground”) seemed like the park version of a concept car when James Ramsey and Dan Barasch presented it to the public last year. It would be New York City’s first underground park, occupying an [Read More] |
Who Is Attorney General Eric Schneiderman? |
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5:20 pm, 02/07/2012 |
According to a recent Siena College poll, 63% of New Yorkers don’t know who Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is. Get it together, New York! This guy is legit, and uh, kind of a dreamboat. He’s a progressive Democrat who [Read More] |
NY Prisoners Will No Longer Be Counted As Residents Of Prisons |
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7:21 pm, 01/18/2012 |
In a rare victory for lovers of democracy and redistricting reform, New York State just declared prisoners to be legal residents of their pre-prison addresses. For too long, upstate New York has been overrepresented, due to the sheer number of prison [Read More] |
Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30 With Parents’ Health Care Plans in NY State |
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1:51 am, 12/16/2011 |
Good news for those single, uninsured folks who just turned 26 years old. We all know that the federal Affordable Care Act of 2010 gave young, unmarried adults up to the age of 26 the option to go [Read More] |
Rome ‘Paves’ the Way For Lamer Streets |
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2:48 pm, 12/14/2011 |
The Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, has just announced that his city will be paving over historic cobblestone streets to accommodate high-heeled shoes in certain thoroughfares. Gothamist dangerously alluded to the idea that New York City could pave over [Read More] |
Black Friday Sales Pit 99% Against 99% |
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5:43 pm, 11/28/2011 |
This year, Black Friday finally broke through into Thursday, also known as Thanksgiving Day. That meant a flood of freshly bloated tourists and residents tee-heeing their way through the streets of New York City, or more commonly, anxious serfs gearing [Read More] |
America Looks like New York State. Occupy YOUR Town. |
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1:38 pm, 11/17/2011 |
While #OccupyWallSt regains its footing, there are plenty of other places to lay out your sleeping bags, yell at bankers, and be American from Brooklyn to Utica! In addition, check out burgeoning Facebook pages uniting the New York State and [Read More] |
