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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Budgets? We Don’t Need No Sinkin’ Budgets: Gosh, the budget deadline has come and gone here in NY without a budget being approved. I’m shocked. Only I am not. Now, don’t get me wrong – this doesn’t make the current legislature any worse than the previous ones. They are worse but that’s for other reasons [...]

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City Council banned the sale of flavored tobacco products Wednesday. And to that I say, “eeeeeew. I didn’t even know there was flavored tobacco.” Holding a small pink cigarillo in her hand, Quinn said, “That looks like a lip gloss. Don’t tell me that’s not targeted for a young girl.” OMG! Peach flavored? Grape? But [...]

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