Congestion Pricing - I’m for it. The current plan being kicked around. Well, I don’t know that it’s exactly what I would have proposed and I’m not sure how all the logistics will play out but it is a move in the right direction and deserves to be tried.

Governor Patterson - listen, Guv. You seem all right - better than some, no worse than most but a little less with the sharing, OK? I now know more about your youthful indiscretions and marital ups and downs than I do my own. Let’s keep a little mystery between us, huh?

Spring is bustin’ out - Did you know that Macy’s 34th Annual Flower Show is on at the moment? Yes, it’s true. Herald Square is awash with blooms. Hurry though before they freeze!

Today in NY History — 25 March, 1911 Unsafe working conditions lead to the death of 146 mostly young, female employees when fire starts at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in Greenwich Village; on this same date in 1990, 87 die in the Happy Land Social Club fire in the Bronx.