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In a special election to fill an empty seat, Republicans have lost a special election – in a district in which they have a nearly 2-to-1 advantage. From Danny Hakim‘s piece on the Times website this morning: The victory meant that a single Senate seat now stands between the Democratic Party and full control of [...]
When a subcontracting firm – the “John Galt Corporation” – is named for the protagonist in an anti-union, anti-government-regulator novel (Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead) it is to be hoped that at least one decision-maker would have thought it disturbing to put such a firm in charge of safety. (See David W. Dunlap’s “A Literary Footnote [...]
Melissa Gould has created a re-imagined map of New York as it might have been had the Germans won World War II. NEU-YORK is a cautionary meditation, suggesting what the local geographical reality might have been like had victorious Nazis succeeded in bringing the Third Reich across the Atlantic Ocean in 1945. At the same [...]
Campaign pros in both parties are worried that the mysterious Brooklynite publicly known only as “Mister President” may consent to leading a third-party ticket with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg running for the vice-presidency. One observer said that while the mayor was long on practical experience, only “Mister President” had the both the gravitas necessary [...]
Marlene Naanes, “Subway station safety in question after collapse,” A.M. New York, dated February 11th, 2008: After a subway platform edge in Brooklyn splintered beneath a 14-year-old boy’s feet, sending him onto the Q train tracks several feet below, the teen’s family Sunday called for transit officials to take quick action in making emergency station [...]
The Postal Service first used pneumatic tubes between New York and Brooklyn in 1897; the system expanded to connect individual post offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Similar systems were used in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago in the United States, and in Europe, Prague, London, Paris, and Russia. [photopress:Pneumatic_Tube_Canister___National_Postal_Museum_.jpg,thumb,alignright] At its peak, New York’s pneumatic [...]