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I wrote this letter to Mayor Bloomberg on August 12th. As of this writing (October 19, 2009) there’s been no response. August 12, 2009 Hon. Michael Bloomberg City Hall New York, NY 10007 Dear Mayor Bloomberg, A child living on my block, the block of Stratford Road, Brooklyn between Caton and Church Avenues – lost [...]
For those unfamiliar with Manhattan geography, Manhattan is much longer on its roughly North-South axis than it is on its East-West axis, although the island is narrower at its southern edge. (And it turns out to be harder to quickly locate a map showing the entire island than one would think). The current (and possibly [...]
An acceptable number of child-vehicle accidents? The answer is – however many there are, in our community, that number, certainly, is acceptable. Not that it should be acceptable – but, collectively, we acquiesce by not protesting. I don’t exclude myself. I’ve made paltry efforts to remedy the situation, at least as of this writing. City [...]
Christine Hauser and Kathryn Carlson reported in yesterday’s Times – online editions, in any case, that Rondell Grant, eleven years old, was killed last Saturday by a hit-and-run driver. Brooklyn Boy, 11, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver. Grant was apparently killed after two cars sped past him – he then stepped into the street and was [...]
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 [...]
From the Times’ “Metro Briefing” on Thursday, page B4 of the print edition, link to online archived version here A man who stopped to help a driver in a disabled car on the Prospect Expressway early yesterday was killed when a drunken driver in a third car smashed into his car and the broken-down vehicle, [...]
Because many of us are having conversations about the same subjects – and this blog might help in aggregating those little conversations – to find consensus and a larger, clearer voice. Here are the issues that I find myself discussing, often, with neighbors: traffic on Caton Avenue noise safety pollution Green energy issues – solar [...]