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They opened up a new playground near my new apartment and it’s awesome. Too bad they didn’t open it until the end of summer. Vin enjoyed it.
Funny addition to subway signs courtesy of Newmind Space. Click through for link.
They make a good point of the uselessness of these signs beyond focusing your impatience as you wait on the platform. Last night I stood at the train steps leading up to the 6 in the Bronx. In front of me was a bus stop. I thought, “it would be nice to see that sign that shows when the next train might come so I know if I should wait for the bus down here or go for the train up there.”
In 2007, the New York City Transit Authority began installing LED signs on subway platforms that display estimated wait times for arriving trains. Unfortunately the information is little more than trivia: except for a few stations, it is only visible to travelers after they’ve paid their fare, so the data has little bearing on commuter decision-making.
This excerpt below is true, but the signs haven’t stopped this behavior so far.
These LED signs also threaten historical social behaviors, rendering obsolete the time-honored New York tradition of leaning over the platform edge with the hope of glimpsing headlights from an approaching train.
The painting protester at the proposed Muslim Center. He’s out there often painting his protests.
So this is the situation. My office is located directly in the middle of a lot of drama. The feng shui here sucks.
Spotted this tag on this truck. Is that a Jim Joe?? Doesn’t look like his tag at all. Is it?
- One man shot and another slashed across the face in a fight at a building on 13th Street & 4th Avenue
- One dead and 3 teenagers wounded after gunmen opened fire on a teen party at Grand Concourse and E 171st Street - one of the 3 was the 19 year old host, the injured were 16, 18, and 18
- 16 year old shot dead on Cromwell Ave in the Bronx after stepping outside of his house to take a phone call
- 9 other shootings in the Bronx (total 13 people shot last night in the BX alone)
- One man, who is an ex con suspected of shooting a 2 year old girl outside of the O’Dwyer Gardens House in Coney Island on July 25th, was shot 3 times and killed last night at West 32nd and Mermaid Ave
- 2:30 AM last night a shooting at 144th and Lenox in Harlem left one man dead and 2 cops injured - 22 year old Luis Soto - it is still unclear who exactly shot Soto with witnesses claiming the cops shot him.
- Another shooting at Cortlandt Ave in the Bx
- Two women and one man are in the hospital after being shot by a .357 on Beekman Street after getting into an argument with 2 men at 3 AM
New Subway Cars Have Arrived! - Gothamist
Cool! I’ve never seen a subway car fresh off the lot like that.
The Brooklyn rapper is playing Brooklyn Bowl Tuesday with a live band. There are still tickets available.
Nike released a collection of limited-edition Air Force 1 sneakers designed by DJ Clark Kent, one pair for each borough in New York City. The “Five Boroughs Pack” sneakers feature the borough names on the laces and designs on the insoles. The Bronx version is pictured above, of course.
Vinny Cafaro, who owns BX Sports on Pelham Parkway told the Daily News, “We haven’t seen demand like this for years….We get calls all day long.”
$135 a pair.
Street Fight.
First UP: This dudes is an asshole for punching her like that. I have no idea how this fight broke out or who did what to whom.
BUT … honestly, ladies, don’t go jumping on and punching on a man like that. He was backing up and she kept on him. Don’t throw a punch at anybody if you’re not ready to take one back. At the end of the day, if dude decides to hit you back, you’re going down. Don’t go blow for blow with a man, chica. You can’t win.
