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These People Pay For Our City Services; Quit Cursing At Them!

If Bloomberg had any balls at all, he’d leave the Brooklyn Bridge to the tourists and picture takers because maybe there are places bicyclists shouldn’t have priority:

An all-out turf war has erupted between speeding cyclists and picture-snapping pedestrians over a narrow pathway that’s too close for anything but a collision.

. . .

“What the f- -k are you doing? There are bikes on the bridge!” yelled the BMX-riding cyclist before speeding off.

That is, unless you want to start ticketing tourists for not walking inside the white lines . . . then again, that would also raise money for the city.

Location Scout: Brooklyn Bridge.

Posted: August 15th, 2011 | Filed under: Blatant Localism, Well, What Did You Expect?

Yeah? You Try Working A Thousand Feet In The Air On The World’s Most Attractive Terrorist Target Without A Little Liquid Courage . . .

I mean, of course drinking on the job is a serious no-no, but have you seen how high that thing is already? Cut the men some slack here:

The Post spotted two dozen workers stream north from the site each day at about 11:45 a.m. and pack two Murray Street watering holes for their hourlong lunch breaks — the same pub pilgrimage hardhats were making two years ago from Ground Zero.

Once again, many skipped food entirely in favor of liquid refreshments — including bottles of beer, shots of whiskey and — in the case of one wasted worker — a pint glass nearly full of vodka.

Posted: August 14th, 2011 | Filed under: We Just Can't Look, We're All Gonna Die!

Party Like It’s 1897, Bitches!

Oh my god, they’re actually baking their own bread:

Brooklyn, fiercely proud of its independence from Manhattan, is an expanding frontier for the Do It Yourself movement — resourceful residents are baking bread, raising chickens for eggs, keeping bees for honey or simply renovating brownstones themselves.

Posted: August 7th, 2011 | Filed under: Blatant Localism, Brooklyn, Sliding Into The Abyss Of Elitism & Pretentiousness, There Goes The Neighborhood, Things That Make You Go "Oy"

Still A Laughingstock, In Just Three Short Years

Widely heralded DOT pedestrian plaza in Meatpacking District continues to impress:

Street plazas with stone barriers that distinctly resemble breasts have become the laughingstock of the trendy Meatpacking District, and businesses are poised to give them the heave-ho, The Post has learned.

. . .

The city Department of Transportation installed the odd open areas between Gansevoort and West 14th streets in one of its first experiments with public plazas. The promenades have since become a DOT obsession, spreading all over the city.

“The plazas look neglected, dirty and unkempt. No one is taking care of them,” said [the] executive director of the Meatpacking District Improvement Association, a nonprofit spearheading the $500,000 overhaul. The tab is being split between the city and the business group.

The Meatpacking District Initiative, another local group that pledged to maintain the areas when they were first built, claimed the city stiffed them out of $40,000 and their funds dried up in 2009.

Clubgoers have taken to loitering in the plazas in between bar-hopping, and filling them with trash.

Posted: August 7th, 2011 | Filed under: Architecture & Infrastructure, Manhattan, Oh Well What Do You Do?

Yankees Bat Boys Get Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars In Tips

That and Joe Torre is really missing OTB.

Posted: August 7th, 2011 | Filed under: Sports
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