Taken from this morning’s am New York: public transit advocacy group Transportation Alternatives is asking riders to rate compare their current commute to their rides in 2009. To get in on the action, text the word “commute” to 30644 and say if your commute has gotten better, worse, or stayed the same since 2009.
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Rate your commute
Posted: January 27, 2012 in City News, Site NewsTags: am new york, mta, subway, transportation alternatives
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PLEASE Stand Away from the Platform Edge
Posted: January 23, 2012 in City News, Site NewsTags: mta, subway, nyc, gothamist
an average of 2 people a week are hit and killed by subway cars The internet is abuzz today about news posted by Gothamist that there were 4 subway-related deaths this weekend. The story is sickening and gruesome to read, as it includes a quote from an EMT that describes the varying types of death-by-subway scenarios that [...]
Censoring the Internet
Posted: January 18, 2012 in City News, Site NewsTags: censorship, congress, free, freedom, freedom of speech, house, information, PIPA, piracy, privacy, senate, SOPA
If Google, Wikipedia, and WordPress (to name a few) think it’s a serious enough infringement on their capabilities, maybe we should too. Imagine if content on the internet was restricted and censored. So just anybody couldn’t put anything they want online. Does that not defeat the purpose of the internet as a medium for sharing information? [...]
New links on the blogroll
Posted: March 7, 2011 in Site NewsTags: Harrison Hill, NearSay, nyc | NearSay, theaterwords
This weekend, the list of cool sites on the left rail grew by two. First up is theater-words, a new blog by NYC-based actor Harrison Hill. With the tagline “theater. writing. the world.”, theaterwords is an informative and highly entertaining collection of blurbs about specific theater happenings in New York. When he’s not performing, Hill [...]
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The folks over at Best Colleges Online just compiled a list of the 20 Defining Novels About New York. Check out the top 5 below, and click here to see the entire list plus book summaries. Washington Square, Henry James Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane The Rise of David Levinsky, Abraham Cahan [...]
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Screening – Central Park: The Park at the Center of the World
Posted: July 26, 2010 in City News, Site NewsTags: Bill Diehl, Bryan Waterman, Central Park, documentary, Suzannah Herbert
Check out the amazing history of the creation of Central Park in this half-hour documentary directed by Suzannah Herbert. It will be screened in the East Village on Wednesday, August 4th at 6 pm. The event is part of Newfilmmakers summer line-up. The doc was directed and edited by Suzannah Herbert and features many prominent figures on [...]
If you’re a frequent site visitor and are disappointed in the recent infrequent posting of stories, check out the new Tweet Me widget on the left of the page. I’ve linked the City Snapshots Twitter to this site, so that you can see what city news I’m interested in. This way, when you come back, [...]
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