Some People Have All The Luck

Man, why can’t I be on a Staten Island Ferry:

Within hours of the Staten Island Ferry crash last weekend, Court Street lawyer Sanford Rubenstein was on the national news discussing the possibility of litigation ensuing from this accident.

Because I certainly wouldn’t want to be a patient at St. Vincent’s:

The closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital has left yet another wounded group in the lurch — hundreds of New Yorkers who are suing the hospital for medical malpractice.

More than 260 people pursuing malpractice and negligence claims against the bankrupt hospital are in legal limbo.

With St. Vincent’s assets going to Bankruptcy Court, the victims may never see a penny in damages, sources told the Daily News.

Location Scout: Staten Island Ferry, St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan.

Leave The Cold-Weather Games To Vince Lombardi And Steve Sabol Voiceovers On ESPN Classic

This is why God created domed stadiums:

The bid to host the 2014 Super Bowl at New Meadowlands Stadium, portions of which were obtained by The New York Times in advance of its Wednesday unveiling, dresses the Super Bowl in a giant “I Love New York” T-shirt, spinning even the prospect of bad weather as a chance to go “old school” and embrace a link to some of the N.F.L.’s storied cold-weather games.

Maybe We Can Call It Third Term Park

The Great Economic Engine of Willets Point seems more like an idealistic pet project, but oh well, what does this guy care anyway — by the time it’s really humming along (and hopefully not just with the roar of engines from planes in and out of LaGuardia) he’ll be long gone (in Bermuda, perhaps?):

Under Mr. Bloomberg’s proposed budget, the city would need to reduce its workforce by more than 10,000 jobs; teachers would be fired; firehouses would be shuttered — the kind of things people really don’t like, and the kinds of things that draw noisy protests to the steps of City Hall.

What also stood out were the things that did not get cut. . . .

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But the administration’s approach also has some serious drawbacks, most pointedly with the timing — this year’s capital budget, at about $10 billion, is the highest ever, just as the city’s finances are the worst they have been in years. Since capital spending is generally borrowed, directing money to these projects will increase the city’s hefty debt load, and mean higher debt service for years.

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But with the city, it’s significant that for the largest projects — Coney Island and Willets Point — much of the money currently budgeted is for acquisitions, buying up property that the city doesn’t even own.

Given that the money goes into the pockets of a few landlords and businesses, it’s not stimulating much immediate economic activity. Instead, the city is relying on the hope that the projects will be carried out, eventually.

See Something . . . Ah Forget It

When you see a nervous man running from a smoldering SUV, yes, absolutely say something, but if it’s just a paper bag on top of a phone booth, assume it’s just something someone forgot:

A suspicious brown bag abandoned atop a pay phone near Times Square Tuesday night led to the third false-alarm bomb scare since Faisal Shahzad’s botched plot left the city feeling jitters.

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The scene was finally cleared shortly before 10 p.m., when bomb technicians determined the bag contained nothing more than a metal cooking tray, police sources said.

Soon nothing will Faisal us like we were once Faisaled.

Ann Arbor, Madison, College Station, Chapel Hill, Boulder — Or Even Lawrence, KS! — Just With Taller Buildings

Fewer and fewer adults can live in Manhattan without enrolling at NYU, so you might as well just own it:

Sixteen teams of two participated at Still bar on Third Avenue at East 17th Street. In the game, players toss pingpong balls into cups — usually filled with beer, but last night with water — on their opponents’ side of the table. When a team sinks a shot in every cup, it wins.