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Happy Birthday to the New York Subway!

Posted on Oct 27, 2015 in latest | no responses

Happy 111th Birthday today to the New York Subway, the railway which makes the Five Boroughs and especially the island of Manhattan possible! In fact on a typical weekday the population of the island of Manhattan almost doubles. The commuter adjusted population is 94.7% larger than the resident population, jumping from 1,600,00 to 3,100,00. Most […]

Yogi Berra “it ain’t over”

Posted on Sep 24, 2015 in latest | no responses

On pizza: When asked by the pizza man if he wanted his pie cut into eight or six slices he replied: ‘Make it six, I’m not that hungry. On selecting a restaurant: ‘Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.’ On economics: ‘A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.’ On the 1973 Mets: ‘We were overwhelming […]

The kindness of strangers

Posted on Aug 28, 2015 in latest | no responses

Sometimes life stuns you with its random cruelty. But sometimes, just sometimes, it stuns you with the joy of random and unexpected acts of kindness. Firefighters from New Jersey, Tim Young and Paul Hullings had just ended a long 12 hour shift fighting a fire when they decided to go into Route 130 Diner in […]

Racing Extinction at The Empire State

Posted on Aug 6, 2015 in latest | no responses

There is no more iconic building than The Empire State building with its image of King Kong clinging to the side and its unused airship mooring mast at the top. Now it is a case of “Beauty killed the Beast” reprised as The Empire State Building’s famous light displays were used to draw attention to […]

Headless Body in Topless Bar

Posted on Jun 10, 2015 in latest | no responses

Tabloid headlines are something of a low art form there is one which sets the standard and is admired by Newspapers the world over, Vincent Musetto’s timeless, peerless, flawless “Headless Body in Topless Bar.” No wasted words; indeed, no verbs. A healthy dash of gallows humour, it’s cheeky, irreverent, wide-eyed, scurrilous, lurid. For contrast, consider […]

Swedish Policing in New York

Posted on Apr 25, 2015 in latest | no responses

Four Swedish police officers vacationing in New York City were on the subway on Wednesday when a fight broke out. The train operator asked if there were any police riding who could help with the situation. The Scandinavian patrolmen were very soothing and non-aggressive as they de-escalated the situation instead of escalating it, the way […]

New York’s St Patrick’s Day Parade – 254 years young

Posted on Mar 6, 2015 in latest | no responses

This year marks the 254th year the Green is paraded in New York City, a Parade and a celebration which is older than the United States of America. The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is one of New York City’s greatest traditions. On this day, everyone is Irish in the Big Apple! New York City’s Saint […]

Race the Subway in New York

Posted on Feb 19, 2015 in latest | no responses

Two friends who became an online sensation after a video of them racing a London Tube went viral have attempted the same challenge on a New York subway train. James Heptonstall and Noel Carroll filmed their latest stunt last month, which sees Mr Heptonstall run the 410metres from Bowling Green station in Manhattan to Wall […]

New York’s underwater Subway Cars

Posted on Jan 31, 2015 in latest | one comment

It’s not every day you see a series of photos clearly documenting someone with a front end loader pushing industrial waste directly into the ocean without any care of secrecy or stealth. Photographer Stephen Mallon captured this series of pictures over three years to document the unusual methods that New York City uses to dispose […]

Making your Social Network Real

Posted on Jan 21, 2015 in latest | no responses

We have heard a lot about hidden camera “social experiments” this past year. But what if we applied social network rules to our real life? Comedy. That’s what. Comedian Jena Kingsley decided to take social networking into real life, and the results of her ‘friend requests’ show just how awkward the whole idea of social […]