We won’t wait. We’ll do it now:
Posted: January 3rd, 2014 | Filed under: The Weather, Things That Make You Go "Oy"And at one point, barraged by questions about storm preparation, Mr. de Blasio lapsed into a soliloquy with an almost existential tone. “We know that the number of inches may go up or may go down,” he said. “We know the winds may be stronger or weaker. But we know we have to be ready.”
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Posted: March 12th, 2013 | Filed under: Insert Muted Trumpet's Sad Wah-Wah HereA judge struck down New York’s limits on large sugary drinks on Monday, one day before they were to take effect, in a significant blow to one of the most ambitious and divisive initiatives of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s tenure.
In an unusually critical opinion, Justice Milton A. Tingling Jr. of State Supreme Court in Manhattan called the limits “arbitrary and capricious,” echoing the complaints of city business owners and consumers who had deemed the rules unworkable and unenforceable, with confusing loopholes and voluminous exemptions.
The decision comes at a sensitive time for Mr. Bloomberg, who is determined to burnish his legacy as he enters the final months of his career in City Hall, and his administration seemed caught off guard by the decision. Before the judge ruled, the mayor had called for the soda limits to be adopted by cities around the globe; he now faces the possibility that one of his most cherished endeavors will not come to fruition before he leaves office, if ever.
In case you were wondering what the true purpose of municipal government is — serving its citizens or whoring itself for corporate donations — this should help set you straight:
Posted: November 2nd, 2012 | Filed under: Class War, Follow The Money, Just HorribleAs hundreds of thousands of Big Apple residents suffer in homes left without power by Hurricane Sandy, two massive generators are being run 24/7 in Central Park — to juice a media tent for Sunday’s New York City Marathon.
And a third “backup” unit sits idle, in case one of the generators fails.
The three diesel-powered generators crank out 800 kilowatts — enough to power 400 homes in ravaged areas like Staten Island, the Rockaways and downtown Manhattan.
As of Friday morning, five generators sat outside of the park along with electrical stations and transformers.
In addition to the generators, a food services truck dropped off hundreds of cases of water . . .
The producers of Men in Black 3 spent several days shooting in Carroll Gardens for scenes that were eventually cut from the film:
Posted: June 22nd, 2012 | Filed under: I Don't Care If You're Filming, You're In My Goddamn Way[A man], 20, who works at Cobble Hill Cinemas at Court and Butler Streets, said that when he told moviegoers the film was shot right in front of the theater, they called him a liar.
A few moments of footage shot at the north end of Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn, near Borough Hall, flash by in the film, but nothing, apparently, from Carroll Gardens itself.
The studio, Sony Pictures, would not answer questions about what was and was not in the movie.
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A physical therapist groused that while the movie was being filmed, his patients could not park near his office and had to walk an extra block.
And [a local blogger] was among the disappointed. One of the reasons she went to the movie, she said, was to see how it justified shutting four or five blocks of Court Street to traffic two or three nights in a row.
See what happens when you’re faced with considering the ramifications of really stupid laws? You’re forced to call your own daughter a slut:
Posted: June 21st, 2012 | Filed under: See, The Thing Is Was . . .Mayor Bloomberg did an about-face yesterday and refused to sign a bill to stop cabbies from carrying hookers after admitting that even his own sexily clad daughters could be mistaken for ladies of the evening.
“I still don’t understand how a taxi driver can make a decision, and I do worry that if my daughters are out there after they are at, you know, a club and they come out late at night and they’re dressed a lot more risquély — if that’s a word — than people in my generation did but still appropriate for this generation, it does put a taxi driver in a difficult position,” Hizzoner said in a rambling explanation.
