Tuesday Links
Easy Ways MTA Can Ease Riders Pain [NY Times] To Sell Apartments, Furnishing is No Afterthought [NY Times] Feathers Fly Over Goose ‘Kill Zones’ [NY Post] Marzowitz Pulls Out of China Trip [NY Post] Dream Home’s a Nightmare [NY Daily News] New Borough Commissioner Promises to Sweep Clean [BK Paper] The Best Baklava is in…

Easy Ways MTA Can Ease Riders Pain [NY Times]
To Sell Apartments, Furnishing is No Afterthought [NY Times]
Feathers Fly Over Goose ‘Kill Zones’ [NY Post]
Marzowitz Pulls Out of China Trip [NY Post]
Dream Home’s a Nightmare [NY Daily News]
New Borough Commissioner Promises to Sweep Clean [BK Paper]
The Best Baklava is in Bay Ridge [BK Paper]
NTC Students Facing Foreclosure Increases [TRD]
ATT Among First Carriers To Be Used in Subway [Observer]
Pacific St. Between Carlton and Vanderbilt is Really Closed [AYR]
Wow, is Kickstarter quickly turning into a way to finance sitting around and doing drugs? Hydroponic r&d lab? Bosjwick Farms never seemed to know what it was, but hydroponic r&d lab is a new stab of brilliance. When the cops cart them away, they can say it’s part of a performance art reality YouTube show, and then they can raise bail on Kickstarter. Do you think this whole thing would fly as a thesis at Bard?
90 day foreclosure moratorium and TARP II coming soon. Title insurance companies are bailing from deals. Home prices are f***ed.
***Bid half off peak comps***
I have about as much sympathy for Canadian geese as I do for zebra mussels, Asian beetles, Burmese pythons and iguanas in south Florida or any other invasive species that almost always do significant harm to the environment they’ve adopted. Eradicate by any means necessary, cull the numbers, etc.
Animal lovers outraged? That blows my mind. I am a longtime (15+ years) vegetarian (slipping lately, but still…) and to me the—for lack of a better comparison—PETA stance on this issue (no kill, let ’em be) just boggles my mind. Just look at the research…