Friday Links

Will Subway Riders Start Calling It the Tube? [NY Times]
Freddie Mac’s Secrecy Pacts Face Court Test [NY Times]
Benefit for the Brooklyn Greenway [NY Post]
Nets Eye Return to Newark Prudential Center [NY Daily News]
The Fulton Mall Lacks Bling [Brooklyn Paper]
Hasids Fight for Naming Rights [NY Daily News]
Navy Yard, Brewery Get State Funds [Brooklyn Eagle]
DOH Confirms Mumps Outbreak In Brooklyn [NY1]
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why on earth would people in nyc want the subway to be more like london's subway? so stuuuupid.

*rob*

Posted by: Butterfly at October 23, 2009 9:14 AM

omg! that article about "fairy dust" in concrete. that's whawt makes some sidewalks sparkle?! i never knew that was intentional. i love sparkly sidewalks! fairy dusted sparkly concrete sidewalks > stupid plants and flowers

*rob*

Posted by: Butterfly at October 23, 2009 9:19 AM

I'd rather have the stupid plants and flowers. With all of the things wrong with downtown, Mr. Dew should be glad the sidewalk actually got repaved at all. Who cares about "bling" in the sidewalk? Those terrazzo sidewalks tend to be really slippery in the winter, too.

Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 23, 2009 9:53 AM

Rob, you ever been to London and rode the subway?
signs letting you know when trains arriving, people don't stand in doorway and block people getting off and on..fewer delays...only problem they don't run 24 hours like here.

Posted by: Petebklyn at October 23, 2009 9:57 AM

and it costs more the further out you go. absurd. as if poor people in the outer boros dont have it hard enough!?

*rob*

Posted by: Butterfly at October 23, 2009 10:21 AM

I agree with you on that one, Rob.

Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 23, 2009 10:23 AM

honestly, much as the ny subway sucks, i'd much rather have our current 24 hour crappy subway then one that shuts down at night. i remember being surprised at how early transit shuts down in major european cities. and cabs are EXPENSIVE there! of course in an ideal world, they'd fix and improve our crappy 24 hour subway system.

Posted by: CG_ups at October 23, 2009 10:40 AM

If the subway shuts down at night, the effects on business and night shift workers will be devastating. NYC works 24 hours a day- the subway needs to be running 24 hours a day.

Posted by: bxgrl at October 23, 2009 11:11 AM

"and it costs more the further out you go. absurd"

Just as absurb as five beers costing more than one, or a plane ride to Tokyo costing more than a plane ride to Buffalo.

Posted by: Sparafucile at October 23, 2009 1:51 PM

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