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Via the Bridge and Tunnel Club: Fact is, DEP seems to be hoarding its olfactory facts: From The Daily News of December 3rd, Matthew Lysiak reports in “DEP dumps pine deodorizer to cover smell from Brooklyn pipe project” that For more than a year, residents of one Brooklyn neighborhood have been complaining about a stomach-churning [...]
Urban Decay is a website – principally a gallery by an unnamed urban planner living in Toronto. He or she has been traveling North America for years observing – and taking beautiful photographs. We here reproduce sample just of a few of the New York City photographs, but plan to look again soon. Without meaning [...]
This bandage – in a shape designed to be useful in more than one configuration – was covered with language-free instructions for use. From the amazing (and amazingly wide-ranging) “Ideo Selects” exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt. [singlepic=219,320,240,,left] If you’re in or going to be visiting New York, the Cooper-Hewitt is at 2 East 91st Street – [...]
Kareem Fahim and Nate Schweber report in today’s Times: A 56-year-old man who neighbors said had been a heavy smoker died in a fire at his apartment in Brooklyn that might have been started by a lighted cigarette, the authorities said.
Joel Johnson, the gadget czar at BoingBoing parallel Gadgets site – we’d assumed he was ine Bay area. But he lives up the hill – (in the lowest flood-risk zone – we’ll leave it at that), where he also has his own blog. His most recent post announces that his sister Rachel has opened Lemons [...]
New York appears to have become the first state to oppose renewal of a nuclear power plant license: Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo said on Monday that the state had asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to deny an application to extend the license of the Indian Point nuclear reactors, citing “a long and troubling history [...]
We’ve noticed that there no longer seem to be any public trash cans on Church Avenue. Does anyone have any idea what’s become of them?
We’re pleased to add our neighbor Scott Whittle to our blogroll – he’s an outstanding photographer in more than one context (the link here is only to his wedding photography -watch this space for more), and a serious birder. Caton Avenue has it on good authority that Mr. Whittle will soon make an attempt to [...]
You’re asking – what’s he on about now? Where is this place? Answer: not far enough in case of an accident. Peach Bottom is a nuclear power installation about 90 miles from Philadelphia, less than 100 miles from Washington, D.C., and less than 200 miles from New York City: [singlepic=12,320,240,,]“Parts of York County are within [...]
Thomas J. Lueck (copy) and Tyler Hicks (images) of my hometown paper have reported that in the most prominent, and well-kept, public park in New York City, rats play as though they were squirrels. Notwithstanding municipal efforts to persuade them to relocate. From November 10, 2007, “Where the Rats Come Out to Play”: The rat [...]
Al Baker reports in November 23rd editions of the Times that the city’s homicide rate is the lowest in years: New York City is on track to have fewer than 500 homicides this year, by far the lowest number in a 12-month period since reliable Police Department statistics became available in 1963. But within the [...]