Wednesday Links
New York to Pay $7 Million in Sean Bell Shooting [NY Times] M.T.A. to Propose New Fare Increases [NY Times] Restaurants Grading Begins in New York [NY Times] Bedbugs II: The City Strikes Back! [NY Times] Two Brooklyn Distilleries Make History [NY Daily News] Rock Shop About to Open in East W’burg [Brooklyn Paper] Rumor:…
New York to Pay $7 Million in Sean Bell Shooting [NY Times]
M.T.A. to Propose New Fare Increases [NY Times]
Restaurants Grading Begins in New York [NY Times]
Bedbugs II: The City Strikes Back! [NY Times]
Two Brooklyn Distilleries Make History [NY Daily News]
Rock Shop About to Open in East W’burg [Brooklyn Paper]
Rumor: 205 Montague Sold for More than $30 Million [Brooklyn Eagle]
Green-wood’s Minerva Gets a Makeover [NY1]
Secret Pool in Williamsburg [City.com]
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ishtar, are you sure the check wasn’t to pay for lunch? Lunch at public schools is subsidized or free depending on family income.
so where are you from Ishtar?……maybe someone was just shaking you down and was supposed to be free. Kind of an upscale ‘gimme your lunch money’.
I grew up on LI as well and had free bus transportation to and from private (Catholic) school every day for 12 years, as did all children in the district, public and private.
By ishtar on July 28, 2010 1:32 PM
Students in the suburbs who ride the yellow bus have to pay a fee for that. The only people who get free rides are students who are actually POOR and cannot afford to pay. This is the only place I know of that hands out a metro card to almost every public school student. Students need to show proof of being “poor” before they get a free ride.
Not true. I grew up in Hicksville, Long Island, NY and got a bus to middle school (junior high school then), no fee required. And private school students get transportation too.
Let us not get on the distortion of stats and how unions play politics, benson.
I used to live in the burbs and ride the yellow bus. My mother sent me to school with a check every semester. It is subsidized, but parents still have to make up a portion of the cost.
Ah Gem, Gem, Gem, what do I need to do to make you see the error of your ways?!?
For 50 years, this has been the standard solution in NY: raise the tax. So I should chip in further, and ignore the abuse of the civil service system. I should willingly pay more tax so that 75% of NYC’s firemen can retire on a tax-free disability pension (even though the number of fires is at a historic low) and over half of the LIRR’s conductor retire with a pension of greater than $100K.
Sorry, don’t think so. The time of reckoning is upon us.
You guys have so much. Why are you so gleeful about people like my neighbors losing their $40,000 a year job with benefits?
“Students in the suburbs who ride the yellow bus have to pay a fee for that.” —-I’ve never heard of that. Not that I have any experpience riding school buses or having kids ride school buses.