Rantings of a New Yorker

If you’re bored at work and want something to occupy your time, check out TrafficLand.  They have numerous traffic feeds from around Manhattan.

Manhattan now has New York City’s first real time bus information as a first step in equipping the city with smart bus stops. Bloomberg and the MTA unveiled eight bus shelters with electronic countdown displays that tell riders just hour many minutes away their bus is. “All 30 buses on the M34 and the M16 [...]

Helena Williams, the MTA’s interim executive director, says that a fare increase on the MTA is possible after bus and subway drivers received an 11.3% pay rise over the next three years. The MTA’s financial plan calls for fare hikes in 2011 and 2013 but doesn’t account for the $350 million cost of the new [...]

Keith Christiansen, the Jayne Wrightsman Curator of European Paintings, and Michael Gallagher, Conservator in Charge of Paintings Conservation, discuss their research and conservation of the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florence 1475–Rome 1564), believed to have been created when he was twelve or thirteen years old. Recently acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum, the [...]

By now, you may have seen the “Good Beer” seal in different establishments in New York City.  If your establishment meets the requirements, you’ll get the seal as well.  The requirements are 1. Have 80% craft domestic or special imported beer. 2. Serve a good portion of their beers via draft or cask ale program. [...]

Think that shot of whiskey was really the expensive brand you paid for?  Think again. “It made us sound like we are Public Enemy No. 1,” a bartender told the New York Post. “It could have put us out of business.” So we should let you continue to lie to your customers so you can [...]

The great Canadian donut shop, Tim Hortons is now open at several locations in New York City.  Go grab some today and compare them to Dunkin’ Donuts.  Of course, Dunkin Donuts has never been the same since they stopped making their donuts locally and got rid of their honey dipped donuts.  Man, those were good [...]

Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York is a picture book about old store fronts in New York City. If you’d like to see a selection of photos from the book before you buy it, head on over to Clic Bookstore & Gallery, July 15th through August 30th, 255 Centre Street, NYC. You can [...]

The MTA has sold the naming rights to the Atlantic Avenue subway station in Brooklyn to Barclay’s. If a $4 million deal is approved on Wednesday, the nexus of subway stops at Atlantic Avenue, Pacific Street and Flatbush Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn will add an additional name to its already lengthy title: Barclays. Once upon [...]