The NY Post HATES the bike lanes because they take street space away from cars, and they inconvenience columnist Steve Cuozzo when he walks to work through Times Square. But it's a challenge to come up with a new rabble-rousing anti-cyclist article seven days a week. So to fill the gap when there's no bike lane "news" to "report," the tabloid has come up with an easy solution: just pull some anti-bike lane mail from the inbox to fill the column inches. Voila, the haterade is stirred another day! Here's what NY Post reader G. Davis of Staten Island has to say: [ MORE]  | Yesterday, it was reported that some politicians had begun making waves to resurrect congestion pricing, as "traffic pricing," to try to avert another fare increase and to restore some of last year's MTA service cuts. But just as soon as the idea was re-floated, it was swiftly dismissed by NY State Senate majority leader Dean Skelos (R-Long Island): "Congestion pricing is just another tax on people that commute into the city. People cannot afford to spend any more money."... [ MORE ] |  | As the snow came tumbling down yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg encouraged everyone to "keep an eye on your neighbors or older New Yorkers." Taking that message to heart is TV's Katie Couric, who was photographed "helping" poor old media mogul Barry Diller get his Maserati out of the snow.... [ MORE ] |  | Not long after a man stabbed two men to death on the No. 2 train with a kitchen knife last year, the NYPD stepped up its enforcement of the city's illegal knife ban, and Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance got Paragon and Home Depot to stop selling illegal switchblades. In April, the crackdown swept up former Pulino's chef Nate Appleman, who was spotted with a chain running from his belt into a pocket, where he kept a two inch long knife that he "used to cut boxes at work." Appleman was arrested, and it seems the NYPD hasn't let up; their latest famous collar is East Village artist John Copeland. But luckily for him, he had lawyer Ron Kuby on his side. (He knows his rights, man.)... [ MORE ] |  | We were going to write a post on the uprisings in the Middle East, but then a NYU Local editor told us there were photos on the Internet of college students in their bikinis in the snow, and what were we talking about again? So, here you go—it's got a news peg and everything (i.e. snow)! Of course, no one's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to click on any of this. Feel free to read about reforming the corporate tax code instead. ... [ MORE ] |  | When the trains and busses stop running, what happens to the people still riding the rails? They wait. During the Blizzageddon we heard all about the poor folks who spent 32 hours on an A train and today the Post already has the story of some angry straphangers stuck in Coney Island who commandeered a stalled N train and, through force of will, persuaded the MTA and the NYPD to turn on the heat while they waited out the storm.... [ MORE ] |  | In a long feature for this Sunday's NY Times Magazine, Times executive editor Bill Keller lays out the paper's relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who happily shared documents with the Times, the U.K's The Guardian and Germany's Der Spiegel last summer (only to later criticize the publications). Keller offered what reporter Eric Schmitt thought when he first met Assange, "He’s tall — probably 6-foot-2 or 6-3 — and lanky, with pale skin, gray eyes and a shock of white hair that seizes your attention. He was alert but disheveled, like a bag lady walking in off the street, wearing a dingy, light-colored sport coat and cargo pants, dirty white shirt, beat-up sneakers and filthy white socks that collapsed around his ankles. He smelled as if he hadn’t bathed in days."... [ MORE ] | | |
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