You’d Think Since They Took The Trouble Of Traipsing Over To The Post Office They’d Also Throw In A Bag Of Bagels . . . Or Something

Just because someone asks for one particular thing doesn’t mean you can’t use your head. At least don’t pat yourself on the back about it:

Army Pfc. Henry Chelune sent The News a letter last week asking for help getting a New York City flag and subway map.

“This would be a huge morale booster for me,” wrote Chelune, 25, a Ridgewood native who has been stationed in the volatile Kandahar Province since January.

“I have another six months in country and would like nothing more than to hang the flag of my city in my [sleeping quarters].”

The News picked up a subway map for Chelune. And in honor of Flag Day on Monday, Hizzoner donated the 5-by-8-foot New York City flag that has been flying outside City Hall for the past year.

Bloomberg even scrawled a personal message on the banner: “Stay safe and thanks for serving.”

And was the subway map even current?

Who Killed The Greenpoint Food Market? “A Manhattan Publication” Did . . .

The Red Hook Ballfields treatment comes to Greenpoint:

The organizer of the Greenpoint Food Market has decided to fold her 10-month-old indie eats bazaar in the face of a threat from city health officials to slap summonses on her vendors because they lack commercial food handling permits.

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Health inspectors have not officially visited the market and organizers were not aware of any complaints made about food-borne illness. But Kim believed that inspectors would visit the June market after the gathering received increased attention from the neighborhood media, including the New York Times, a Manhattan publication.

Aw, FML . . .

A great coincidence:

Subway signs recently updated to reflect the June 28 removal of the V and W lines are as bold in color as the previous signs, but some are much bolder in message, like the ones at 14th Street and Sixth Avenue, which spell “FML” with subway symbols.

Did not last long:

New York City Transit will change a set of subway signs that inadvertently resembled a vaguely profane Internet meme.

Labels for the F, M and L subway lines, which intersect at 14th Street and Sixth Avenue, will be re-arranged so that they appear on two different lines, transit officials said on Monday afternoon.

This Is When It Gets Confusing

Oy:

A kosher-food company is suing the Mets, claiming that it has lost a half-million dollars in profits because the team has forbidden its stands to sell snacks at Citi Field on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons.

Location Scout: Citi Field.

One More New York City Quirk To Be Erased

They just want to get rid of everything that makes the city stupidly unique:

The city Health Department wants to end its age-old milk expiration date requirements, meaning cartons will have a later “sell by” stamp — and just one date.

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New York City remains one of the few places in the country — and the only city in the state — that has its own dating system for milk. Neighboring counties and other states rely on the processor to set the expiration date, which is generally 14-15 days after pasteurization, according to the Health Department.

The city’s reasoning was that milk took a few days to get to city stores or sat on warm stoops after deliveries, officials said. But both factors are rare now, they said.

If the city erases its rule, only the manufacturer’s date would appear on the carton.