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• Commented on Broadway Auto Ban Gets Mixed Reactions
  But what happens to the drivers who come down Broadway? My guess is that they will have to take a cross-street east, then make a right turn onto Seventh -- but wouldn't that just move the congestion out of Times...
• Commented on Broadway Auto Ban Gets Mixed Reactions
  That's true -- I hadn't even thought of that. There is something iconic about standing in the middle of Times Square with cars and buses whizzing by on both sides. Sure, I'd like to stab most of the tourists I...
• Commented on Broadway Auto Ban Gets Mixed Reactions
  True. I don't see how it will possibly work to reduce traffic (rather than causing much more of it)...but, hey, if it works it works. So long as they treat it as an experiment, don't drop a wad of cash...
• Commented on Broadway to be Closed to Motor Vehicles For Seven Blocks
  Interesting idea -- I'm in the "wait and see" camp, though, because I'm not sure what it will do to traffic. My concern is the traffic transferring from Broadway onto Seventh, (and then back onto Broadway, and then back onto...
• Commented on Sharpton Leads Protest Over Post Editorial Cartoon
  Fair enough -- and Sharpton's half horse's-ass....
• Commented on Sharpton Leads Protest Over Post Editorial Cartoon
  I'm not sure if this was racist or not -- it may have been unintentionally so. But what I am sure of is that President Obama does not need, nor want, Al Sharpton fighting his battles for him. Off the...
• Commented on Post Cartoon Mixes Dead Chimp With Stimulus Bill
  I don't think this is racist. They're saying that the stimulus is so bad it must have been written by that crazy chimp that was just in the news -- as in a "monkey throwing darts." If you try to...
• Commented on More Details About Assault Suspect's Getaway Death
  So this was Mustafa, the Mystery Pimp? Or did he prefer to go by The Magical Mr. Abdul-Qawiyy?...
• Commented on Three-Year-Old Decides to Take Subway By Himself
  Yeah, I agree that the door most likely needed to already be open (or someone had to have opened it -- though they may not have been opening it for him, but rather might have just been walking out and...
• Commented on Three-Year-Old Decides to Take Subway By Himself
  Well...maybe. Assume that she turned around for, say, 10-15 seconds to walk across the room to the trash can and throw away the juice box, and in that time he immediately bolted through an open door. A kid could probably...
• Commented on Assault Suspect Tries to Flee, Killed in Car Crash
  You people are horrible -- this is an awful story. I mean, just look at that car -- I think that's a Buick Roadmaster! Those were great cars -- 5.7 liter V-8 engines, rear-wheel drive, seats like a sofa-bed, and...
• Commented on PETA Protests Westminster Dog Show
  (says the guy in the white robe)...
• Commented on PETA Protests Westminster Dog Show
  By the way, if there are any PETA members reading this -- the Westminster Dog Show has decided to relocate to the Apollo Theater in Harlem. So you should probably take those white robes, hop on the A train, and...
• Commented on PETA Protests Westminster Dog Show
  PETA is doing an offensive, laughable, and irrelevant stunt to promote a ridiculous and extremist position? Oh my. You could knock me over with a feather. Meh. Increasingly-irrelevant circle-jerkers don't really deserve press coverage, in my opinion....
• Commented on Parks Artificial Turf May Be Pumped Full of Lead
  I used to play on the grass fields on Roosevelt Island, which saw only moderate use -- and, man, that place was a muddy, nasty moonscape. I can't imagine what Chelsea Waterside would look like (if they could even put...
• Commented on Pedestrian + Van + Canal Street = You Guessed It
  My understanding (from the reports of the surveillance video) is that it was not moving until after he was out of the van -- reports say that it then "lurched" backwards. (If he was hopping out quickly to make a...
• Commented on Pedestrian + Van + Canal Street = You Guessed It
  It's definitely an accident -- the guy clearly had no intention for it to happen (unless you think this guy is the John Wayne Gacy of parking). But you want to ask about whether it's criminal, and that's a fine...
• Commented on Pedestrian + Van + Canal Street = You Guessed It
  I know enough about this case to know that it looks like an accident -- a horrible, sad accident. If you have anything to point to that would suggest otherwise, I'm all ears. You don't try to point to anything...
• Commented on Octuplets on TV, Octomom's Mom Calls Her "Unconscionable"
  And we all know how that ended...nom nom nom nom...
• Commented on Pedestrian + Van + Canal Street = You Guessed It
  I feel deeply sorry for the families of the dead children. But criminality is determined not by the effects, but by the acts. A non-criminal act that results in deaths is nonetheless non-criminal, just as a criminal act that luckily...
• Commented on Pedestrian + Van + Canal Street = You Guessed It
  No kidding. The ones on 42nd Street are just as bad -- without them, traffic stops when the light turns red. With them, they'll keep the cars coming after the light changes - which is fine, except that 50% of...
• Commented on Roosevelt Islanders About to Get Zapped by High Con Ed Bills
  I agree with you on all but the second point -- and there only about the tenants not being able to confirm market rates because management won't give them the contact information for Con Ed. Con Ed is in the...
• Commented on Roosevelt Islanders About to Get Zapped by High Con Ed Bills
  1053? Is that normal? I've never seen a bill that large for electricity -- maybe $200 at the most. If they're able to fix the heaters so that the bills go down to normal, then fine -- that's a good...
• Commented on Model T to (Finally) Replace Carriage Horses?
  I don't know -- the pedicabs in the park can be a real obstacle to pedestrians, particularly when driven by half-crazed former bike messengers. Plus, there's something unromantic about sitting behind a sweaty man's ass as he digs hard to...
• Commented on Model T to (Finally) Replace Carriage Horses?
  I'd call your comment prescient, but......
• Commented on Central Park's Bethesda Terrace Vandalized
  I suspect we'll see comments like "hang the bastards" and the like. And I'm usually one for being moderate with teenagers -- stupidity is a constant side-effect of youth, and God knows we all spent time being idiots in our...
• Commented on Survivors of Flight 1549 Crying Over Lost Keepsakes
  The last line of the article says something to the effect of "I lost some stuff that was valuable to me, but thankfully, I'm still here." So it's not like the passengers don't get it -- their joy at being...
• Commented on Liam Neeson Faces Off With Animal Rights Activists
  No, it's a dismissive remark to get you to stop your flurry of angry, often incomprehensible postings so that the adults in the room can discuss the issue. You've not just commented more than anyone else -- you've commented just...
• Commented on Liam Neeson Faces Off With Animal Rights Activists
  Seriously. Felix -- don't you have any other hobbies? Any HUMANS in your life to do things with, other than this?...
• Commented on Making The Call: Let's Keep The Islanders On Long Island
  "Let's Keep the Islanders on Long Island." Yes, please. All of them....