Straphangers Outraged By MTA’s $600M Overtime Bill: and not without good reason. I’d be outraged myself if I wasn’t already at full outrage capacity over their massive slash and burn tactics that defy logic, common sense and failure to take into account the actual users of the system they are mismanaging so badly. LaGuardia has [...]

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Though a total non-fashionista, Gotham Girl loves street style & checks out the sartorial streets of London & NYC. Last year, New York beat London hands down on the street food front – this time around, London gets a bit of it’s own back. Today marks the first Friday of the season on Governors Island, [...]

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Two items of interest this morning (well, of interest to me and anyone else searching for a sign of sanity and intelligence amidst NYC traffic and transportation news). I was reading The Villager (which you’ve likely never heard of unless you live in the East Side and honestly, even then . . . ). But [...]

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My doormen are fabulous and I don’t care who knows it. Will their going on strike be an inconvenience to me? Maybe but not a big one and certainly not enough of one for me to begrudge them their due as hard-working and valuable parts of my life.

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Well, NYU has launched a website containing its expansion plans.   Now I know that plans change all the time and there’s nothing to say any of this is carved in stone (though honestly some of it might look better in stone) but if this is the direction they are going, the place all their discussions [...]

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