Thursday Links
Bus and Subway President Quits in M.T.A. Shake-Up [NY Times] Some Wall Street Bonuses To Hit Pre-Downturn Highs [NY Times] Getting a Grip on Your Property’s Value [NY Times] There’s No Moving Al Vann Out Yet [NY Daily News] No Love for Bloomberg from Brooklynites [NY Daily News] Elves Invade Dumbo [Brooklyn Eagle] Brooklynites Rush…
Bus and Subway President Quits in M.T.A. Shake-Up [NY Times]
Some Wall Street Bonuses To Hit Pre-Downturn Highs [NY Times]
Getting a Grip on Your Property’s Value [NY Times]
There’s No Moving Al Vann Out Yet [NY Daily News]
No Love for Bloomberg from Brooklynites [NY Daily News]
Elves Invade Dumbo [Brooklyn Eagle]
Brooklynites Rush to Rescue Pigeon [Gothamist]
Photo by flatbushnelson
“We need him/her in the OT!!!!!!”
I’m heading over to Gothamist to invite them.
I couldn’t watch an animal suffer. Count me in with the PETA crackpots. But once they found out I had a pet cat they’d put me on trial probably.
Yes, Biff, I saw that one too. I want to meet the guy/gal who posted that. We need him/her in the OT!!!!!!
DIBS, the most poignant comment was: “Kitty Genovese is rolling over in her grave right now.”
Biff, those comments are great….
“thats an uplifting story, said the nearby homeless guy with no winter coat and festering wounds.”
“thats a real feel good moment, said the guy trapped in the fire down the street.”
A pigeon in Brooklyn was recently rescued by some animal lovers after being “dangled upside down from a piece of string that was caught around her leg and tangled on a tree branch two stories above a busy sidewalk.”
When a passerby contacted PETA, the bird was already there for days without food or water. The organization reports back that while local animal control agents were unable to help, “they referred our cruelty caseworker to the local fire department, which dispatched a truck minutes after. Firefighters drove by to survey the situation and returned in a truck with a tall ladder, which they climbed to reach the bird.”
The pigeon’s wounds were infested with maggots and it was rushed to a vet, who discovered it was suffering from a broken back, and put it out of its misery. PETA asks that everyone help an animal in need… think of how sad rat’s story could have turned out
Only in New York could these nutjobs have rallied to free the flying rat and get the fire department out. Ludicrous and asinine.
The comments on the Gothamist pigeon story are nasty…and completely hilarious. I have to check out that blog more often.
“With Giuliani it was racial – but Bloomberg’s a billionaire, so you know it’s class,” added Allah, an airport worker and father of three.
Imagine if i had said that I wouldn’t vote for Thompson because he was black!!!!
Congratulations to the Yankees. I only hate them because they are blue. Oooopppssssss, is that colorist????
That T-shirt is hysterical! Where can I get one. I have a girlfriend who would get a big kick out of it.