How Bad Off Are The Mets?

This bad:

Meanwhile, belt-tightening has contributed to layoffs. The team acknowledged a 10 percent reduction in baseball operations staff late last year. The Mets’ Pacific Rim scout is among those out of work. One minor league team has been abolished. Even a 61-year-old employee with cerebral palsy who worked at the team’s Port St. Lucie, Fla., minor league complex and who earned only $3,000 last year was axed, according to organization sources. A Mets official insisted the dismissal was merely part of the sound business practice any operation would undertake in streamlining expenses — not an indication of financial distress. The person argued that citing that layoff is unfairly designed to fit a narrative about the Mets’ financial woes. As for the elimination of the Mets’ Gulf Coast League minor league team, the organization noted that it still has more affiliates than most major league clubs.

Brooklyn Becomes Footloose

It almost makes me want to put on a bikini and ride my Big Wheel down the middle of the street, and I look terrible in a bikini:

“Young, upwardly mobile professionals may seem to be pleasant tenants who bring in reliable income, but they also introduce a very different way of life: new nightclubs and bars, sun tanning on rooftops, bike lanes and an increasing amount of immodesty on our streets.”

And Then You Become The Fatass Whose Image Is Photoshopped To Illustrate The Horrific Ravages Of Diabetes

Which is when I would start to question my modeling career:

But it turns out that the person shown in the advertisement did not need crutches because his legs were intact. The health department confirmed on Tuesday that its advertising agency had removed the lower half of the man’s leg from the picture to make its point: the headline over the image reads “Portions have grown. So has Type 2 diabetes, which can lead to amputations.”

When city officials announced the campaign on Jan. 9, they did not let on that the man shown — whose photo came from a company that supplies stock images to advertising firms and others — was not an amputee and may not have had diabetes. The city did not identify the man, and efforts to reach the agency that supplied the photo were unsuccessful. The photographer who took the picture [. . .] said he did not know the man’s name.

Another Reason To Be Circumcised

Besides lower STD rates, that is:

[An officer’s] lawsuit against the NYPD says the woman who accused him insisted he was uncircumcised but he has evidence his foreskin was removed in childhood.

He said a hearing officer’s ruling that arousal can make it difficult to determine if the sex organ is uncut was just wrong-headed.

“At no point during the trial was an expert called to render an opinion,” the court papers say.

And Now You Have The Basis For A Delightful Little Rom-Com

OK, first of all, the EDC has a Tumblr, but the Tumblr post is pretty interesting — basically it’s the stats department crunching numbers to see if there really are more single ladies than single men in NYC. You’ve probably heard people talk about the ratio of singles, etc. but here’s the hard data:

New York City’s population is 53% female and 47% male. This is a widely cited statistic that often supports an argument that the gender imbalance makes it more difficult for some women to find a partner. Using Census data, we analyzed only the population who are never married singles between the ages of 20 and 34. In this subgroup, men outnumber women — 742,400 to 729,500.

That said, although there are more single men than women overall, certain neighborhoods have more single women than men, specifically the UES (think all those shared apartments near York Ave.) and Murray Hill (well, duh). So where do all the single men come from? Jackson Heights — its sex ratio makes it look like the Dubai of NYC. Because if my impressions of the 7 train are correct, that’s where all the immigrant guys far from home are living while they bust their humps serving all the single Manhattan ladies dining out. Now if we could only get the two together, we’d be set. (Via.)