How would you like to see the MetroCard/subway payments evolve?
“New Yorkers are driven to distraction with their smart phones, and the simple act of looking can prevent thousands of crashes and injuries every year,” said Department of Transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, in a statement. “LOOK! is a message to all New Yorkers that safety is in the eye of the beholder and everyone needs to keep an eye out for each other on our streets.”
City expands an uncontroversial pedestrian-safety program, Dana Rubinstein reports
14 of the most memorable Broadway musical ads from the 1970s and ’80s.
So much Patti LuPone.
Christoph Niemann’s illustration about NYC’s ban on large soft drinks for the New Yorker.
"While it started off as a term that was geographic in nature, it really morphed and evolved. It became a byword of mythology…. The fact is ‘the South Bronx’ really came to mean a destructive dynamic that was a cycle of disinvestment, arson, abandonment, and then total destruction."
— Joe Muriana, a former director of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition and activist who worked to rebuild the neighborhood after its urban apocalypse.
"Hello, Mr. Mayor: Tech workers carry… tech tools. And many of them don’t have — or want — cars, so they ride the subway. A big quality-of-life point is to work or play on your commute."
— Nicole Gelinas in the New York Post. She says that the Bloomberg administration’s high-profile effort to grow New York City’s tech sector is threatened by a raise in subway crime, particularly the theft of “tech stuff” like iPads and iPhones.
Dessert’s up! Check out Leah Koenig’s latest Lost Foods of New York City column, which features Biscuit Tortoni! Read more.
THE AFTERMATH OF ED TOWNS’ EXIT: It’ll be popular Hakeem Jeffries against a poor Charles Barron
On Jan. 21 and 22, comedians Jessica DeBruin, Corinne Fisher, Dawn J. Fraser, Chrissie Gruebel, Tracy Mull, Roopa Singh, and Katie Sullivan—plus Rachel Dratch of Saturday Night Live fame—will lend their unlikely voices to a fund-raiser titled “Comedians of New York for Afghan Women Writers.” The reading is to benefit the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, an organization that mentors Afghan women writers and distributes their work to a global audience.
“Comedians understand pain best,” said Stephanie Tait, a filmmaker and comedian herself, who acts as the AWWP creative outreach director and is also the event’s curator, “because they go into comedy to escape their own.”
Read more: In Crown Heights, the nerve center of a project to mentor and help protect Afghan women writers
Remember when NYC was a shithole? Most of us can’t because we’re not from here. But these pictures are a good look into some of the grossness that was The Big Apple.
Check Steven Siegel’s photos out on Gothamist.
EDIT: Now with the correct link. Thanks, Kate!
