MTA Investigates Child’s Play On Subway

MTA employees are apparently not taking any extra precautions after the suspension of a LIRR engineer accused of letting a passenger drive. A subway motorwoman and conductor, have been put on unpaid leave following reports they let a child commandeer the passenger-packed train. Investigators are trying to determine whether the boy spotted inside the subway cab of an uptown 4 train was actually operating the controls. On Sunday, Jules Cattie, a 41-year-old lawyer, heard the train operator saying, “It’s green, speed up…Yellow, slow down.” Read more »

By on July 29, 2009 at 11:11 am
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Shipping the Poor Out of NYC

Instead of doling out money to keep poor families in the city’s “expensive shelter system,” Mayor Bloomberg has devised a cheaper method: one-way tickets! In the past two years, NYC has paid for more than 550 families to leave. |NYT|

By on July 29, 2009 at 11:00 am
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Though New York City won’t be receiving the Justice Department’s stimulus funding for police programs, the NYPD will be getting a $35 million boost from Homeland Security that it can use to recruit 120 new police officers. Senator Chuck Schumer, who helped broker the deal, chose to describe the influx of rookie cops as “a shot in the arm” for the city. |NYT|

By on July 29, 2009 at 10:38 am
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Parting Shot: On Its Last Legs

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A three-legged Chihuahua, painted and plastered up by QRST in Williamsburg.

Photo of by Jake Dobkin

By on July 28, 2009 at 6:29 pm
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Animal experts are attempting to rescue dozens of white doves found “cold and huddled” outside the Hall of Science in Flushing, Queens. It’s speculated that the domesticated birds were released by ignorant newlyweds, unaware that the doves can’t fend for themselves and “usually end up as hawk food or owl food” if they don’t die first. |NYT|

By on July 28, 2009 at 5:58 pm
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Destroy & Rebuild Print

With virtually every member of their crew getting arrested at some point or another in the past two years, it makes sense that Destroy & Rebuild would continue to find some legal ways to parlay their love of graffiti, so the notorious group of vandals created another print with BLDG. It features artful recreations of the work that 2ESAE, SKI, and AVONE would probably prefer to do on the street. The five color print measures 18×24 inches and is an edition of 90 ($125). |Poster District|

By on July 28, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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After the transportation committee gave it a thumbs-up today, the City Council is expected to pass the Bicycle Access Bill tomorrow. The bill will require commercial buildings to grant bicycle entry to their tenants’ employees, who will no longer have to fear their two-wheelers theft when it’s safely indoors. |Streetsblog|

By on July 28, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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Park Slope Councilmember Bill DeBlasio is back on the ballot for the city’s Public Advocate seat after a technical glitch briefly disqualified him. In reinstating the politician and his 132 folders worth of petition signatures, which were mistakenly counted at 131, the president of the Board of Elections admitted, “It was our own process that negatively impacted the candidate.” |NYT|

By on July 28, 2009 at 4:50 pm
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FAILE’s Prayer Wheel Gets Buffed Clean

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When it comes to vandalism, the NYPD recommends a rapid response. In the department’s brochure, “Combating Graffiti,” they write, “Experience has shown that prompt clean-up is an effective deterrent to the re-occurrence of the graffiti.” Putting this police plan into action, somebody made an attempt at washing the paint splatter and tags off FAILE’s recently reinstalled prayer wheel sculpture, but not without taking the piece’s original color off too.

Photos by Zoltan and disconotdisco

By on July 28, 2009 at 4:30 pm
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California Mayor Proposes Sky-High Surveillance

This country is really starting to get scary. The crazy mayor of Lancaster, California has a chilling plan to wipe out crime: 24-hour aerial surveillance. The proposed “eye in the sky” technology uses “a camera attached to a small airplane that could capture images from as far as five miles away and instantly relay footage to deputies on the ground.” Currently, the highly invasive system is employed by the NASA and the military, but this would be the first time it was adapted for civilian use. Hopefully, the system is unsuccessful, otherwise, it’s only a matter of time before those people-hunting Predator drones join the fight. Skynet here we come! |KTLA|

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