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Baylajo, a member of the ETSY collective – one piece from her collection It’s really a steal, I think (although given my professional background, I know more about the price of stolen and counterfeit goods than the real thing. (For the cynical among you: law-abiding, now a wiseguy, no veiled references here, former prosecutor, etc. [...]
Journalist Ashton Applewhite is working on her latest book, about people in their 80′s who are still working, called “So When Are You Going to Retire?” Applewhite has a history of deflating social tuisms, most recently demonstrating that, in fact, women often do better emotionally and financially after divorce – rather than the commonplace (but [...]
According to National Terror Alert, a shot was fired into a girls’ yeshiva in Williamsburgh on Monday; no injuries reported, no arrests. Link to “Shooting At Jewish School For Girls In Williamsburg Brooklyn”
David Crohn’s NYC Blocks , post by post, looks at one tiny geographic sliver of New York. Here’s an excerpt from a post about Irving Place: Time is the most relative of all things. There’s infinite time, which is less a neverending story than it is a concept separate from time itself. When we jump [...]
Undocumented aliens, of course. With feathers. Scott Whittle in his Year of the Bird Project documenting love, and batles among the Canadian geese in Prospect Park.
The Poughkeepsie Journal on Friday published an editorial calling for the extension of hearing into the relicensing of Indian Point. Here’s an excerpt: We reproduce the editorial in its entirety, as it is so well-reasoned. The hearing process has been tainted – and if one is a proponent of nuclear power, all the more reason [...]
In Today’s Times, Anthony Ramirez reports that the real estate developer of the site of yesterday’s crane accident is a retired New York City firefighter – with at least one experience of rescuing construction workers.
UPDATE: there was, in fact, a problem in at least one Verizon pair – but repaired the following morning. We’re back up. Apparently having to do with Verizon – somewhere in the loop between Caton Avenue and the central office, or one of the switches, in Ditmas park. Anyone else having service outages in the [...]
We’re adding Blogger Dog to our blogroll. We like this blog for a number of reasons, but most because credit is given where due – unless some other human-dog teams we’re aware of, in which the dog does all the creative heavy lifting – but somebody else takes the credit. Just saying. This is all [...]
From Matthew Wald’s piece in The New York Times [emphasis supplied]: Opponents of the Indian Point nuclear power plants, including New York State, got their day in court on Monday – sort of – to explain why they thought the two reactors should not be allowed to operate 20 more years. It signified the first [...]
I’m not happy about his behavior, particularly since Spitzer has never publicly discussed decriminalizing prostitution. On the other hand – it’s not corrupt, and has nothing to do with influence-peddling – it only matters if enough people care about it. And – whatever people say – the facts speak for themselves – lots of people, [...]
From Popular Logistics: James McKinley on the issue flash drives and memory sticks as tools of the Cuban equivalent of Samizdat: See post on Popular Logistics.
We missed David Gonzalez’s , For Helper of Immigrants, a Tale of Loss and Destiny, when it appeared in the Times on New Year’s Eve. Gen-Xers may not know that in early December of 1980, four women associated with the Maryknoll order were raped and murdered by Salvadoran government forces. President Carter ordered that all [...]
Jen Chung at Gothamist and Al Baker of the Times have good coverage of the new, much-increased Department of Homeland Security grant to provide security for New York City subways, including the 16 underwater tunnels that link the boroughs to each other, and to the mainland (the Bronx, of course, is actually on the mainland). [...]
An excellent account of what’s going on From Professor Arthur Leonard of New York Law School: For the second time in just a few weeks, a New York State trial judge cited the upstate appellate ruling mandating recognition of Canadian same-sex marriages, Martinez v. County of Monroe, 2008 N.Y. Slip Op. 909, in support of [...]
Bob Herbert sometimes behaves like a very clever hunting dog, alternately flushing his prey and waiting quietly. Of late, he’s been hunting a canard – in this case, a riot which seems not to have occurred. He makes a compelling case that the Kings County District Attorney’s office seems to be persisting in an unjustified [...]
On the Chinese Calendar, it’s the Year of the Rat. But for our neighbor Scott Whittle, it’s the Year of the Bird. And he has a plan: 2008 is my Big Year in birding, and I’m using it as an opportunity to raise money! Donate a fixed amount for every bird I see this year, [...]