4th Ave goes all-American

The real Bob Murray

Arianna Huffington dissects the traditional media coverage of the Crandall Canyon Mine tragedy.

(Also, linked from there: Kos on why "traditional media" is a better term than "mainstream media" or "MSM").

Why Atlantic Yards is bad

One more time:

See letter by Jonathan Lethem.

NYC Transit Meltdown as Documented in Bagels

10:55 am today on 34th street:



Usually at that hour there's hardly anything left. The man in the cart, who sold me a tasty cinnamon roll, said that business was finally picking up a bit.

Update: my photo is now running on nytimes.com

"NYC is the Greenest City in America"

This probably is not useful in advocating for needed change in NYC, but it is fascinating:

Why New York is the greenest city in the U.S. by David Oren.

Chiquita is the banana of the death squads

Supporting terrorists? meh!