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• Long Island Rail Road Will Turn Over Schedule Data In Best Concession Ever

  My lawyer just called with an update about our lawsuit against the Long Island Rail Road, seeking their supposedly non-existent schedule data. We had filed a Freedom Of Information Law request with LIRR seeking their schedule data over the summer and LIRR denied they had any such information (still worth [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2007, 10:55am EST
  

• Good Riddance

  As many know Dan Doctoroff, the mayors in resident neighborhood bulldozer has resigned from city government to run Bloomberg's company. Good Riddance! Community groups all over NYC are cheering this week. Doctoroff spearheaded the hopelessly stupid 2012 project and west side stadium. He pushed most of the blanket rezonings throughout [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2007, 10:11am EST
  

• Swamped With Coding

  It's so frustrating to me that I've not had the time to keep up with news well here at onNYTurf. I apologize to readers. Simply, I am swamped with coding a massive upgrade to the site. Its going great, but every day as I get closer to being able to [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2007, 10:26am EST
  

• Today: City Hall Land Grab Trifecta

  The following press conferences and public hearing on three projects which abuse eminent domain in three boroughs will all take place at New York City Hall today, November 29:
  
  12:00 Noon
  BROOKLYN, ATLANTIC YARDS LAND GRAB
  PRESS CONFERENCE CITY HALL STEPS
  
  Elected Officials and the Council of Brooklyn [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2007, 8:50am EST
  

• Just Teasing

  Coming very soon, station details of all The Bronx:
  
  
  
  and a lot of Queens:
  
  
  
  plus corrections of almost everything listed here.
  
  and btw - to those who have been awesome contributors to gathering station exit entrance images, [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2007, 3:02pm EST
  

• We Are Suing Long Island Rail Road

  We are suing the The Long Island Rail Road because they have failed to comply with the Freedom Of Information Law, rejecting our request for their schedule data in a digital table format. Three times we have asked for LIRR's schedule information in this format, and three times they have [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2007, 9:30am EST
  

• Buildings With the Most Violations

  The NYTimes has a cool map today that shows which buildings in The City are in the most serious need of repair. No surprises on where those violations are concentrated:
  
  
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  Posted: November 21, 2007, 11:59am EST
  

• Christ, Would It Be That Hard for The MTA To Get Some Simple Technology Right

  I'm working hard here on a massive upgrade to this site including the Subway Map, and just noticed the MTA moved some pieces of its website. Subway line information used to be at links like: http://www.mta.info/nyct/service/6lines.html — thats a dead link now. For whatever reason they have decided to [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2007, 12:09pm EST
  

• We Asked Nicely and They Sent Us This, What Would You Do?

  This summer we filed a Freedom Of Information Request with all the MTA departments for their digital schedule data. NYC Transit, Metro North, and Long Island Bus all sent us digital records, the NYC Transit information was particularly nice (though it took a little yelling by our lawyer to get [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2007, 10:44am EST
  

• NYPD Police Union Hates Guiliani

  Delicious!:
  
  "The New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association could never support Rudy Giuliani for any elected office," PBA President Patrick Lynch told The Post.
  
  Lynch also claimed that "Rudy Giuliani has no real credentials as a terrorism fighter."
  
  NYPost
  
  Guiliani prefers an authoritarian bomb-it-if-it-moves kind [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2007, 10:28pm EST
  

• NYPD Police Union Hates Giuliani

  Delicious!:
  
  "The New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association could never support Rudy Giuliani for any elected office," PBA President Patrick Lynch told The Post.
  
  Lynch also claimed that "Rudy Giuliani has no real credentials as a terrorism fighter."
  
  NYPost
  
  Guiliani prefers an authoritarian bomb-it-if-it-moves kind [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2007, 10:28pm EST
  

• Clinton Campaign Prepared List of Questions For Audiences

  The story of Clinton's campaign planting audience questions for Hillary has grown another leg. The first person to come forward, who says she was asked by a staffer to ask a question, has, in an interview with CNN, revealed the Clinton campaign had a list of questions with particular audience [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2007, 11:42am EST
  

• Clinton Campaign Admits To Planting Audience Questions

  Hillary Clinton's Campaign has admitted to planting questions in an audience in Iowa:
  
  They have confirmed that a campaign staffer approached a student to ask Sen. Clinton a question about global warming during a campaign stop at a biodiesel plant in Newton, Iowa, on Nov. 6.
  
  The story [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2007, 3:19pm EST
  

• Hillary vs Hillary

  This video is from the Edwards campaign. It uses video strictly from the last debate, which is smooth. I am sure this could get even more interesting if sound bites were take from an even larger historical pool of Mrs. Clinton's statements.

  
  
  

  This really gets to the crux [...]

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  Posted: November 05, 2007, 11:41am EST
  

• NYPD Bars Arab American From Joining Force, Faces Discrimination Lawsuit

  Despite well known US Intelligence problems AND NYPD problems with having too few native Arabic speakers, the NYPD is facing a anti-discrimination lawsuit for using Arabic origin and Muslim faith as a bar to academy entry. Last week, a naturalized US citizen, originally from Morocco, initiated [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2007, 4:00pm EDT
  

• Bicyclists Suing City Over Critical Mass Arrests

  After years of on the street and legal harassment by the City of New York, Critical Mass cyclists are fighting back. Several cyclists who participated in the September, October, and November 2004 Critical Mass bike rides are back suing the city. 15 plaintiffs are seeking compensatory and punitive damages in [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2007, 5:44pm EDT
  

• Spitzer's Driver's License Plan Gone Wild

  Spitzer has taking his Driver's License plan for illegal immigrants from bad to down right train wreck. The first iteration of his plan was to make illegal immigrants eligible for NYState Drivers licenses, which necessarily wasn't bad - but it was poorly presented. Right wing fear mongers pounced claiming this [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2007, 12:08pm EDT
  

• New Public Photography and Film Making Rules

  The City of New York has issued new proposed public photography and filming rules, including when permits are required. According to the press release on nyc.gov, the rules would be:
  
  Under the new draft of the proposed rule, a permit would be required if equipment or vehicles [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2007, 10:26am EDT
  

• Oct 26: Craig Murphey Memorial Fundraiser Party

  Craig Murphey, who helped build the West Harlem Action Network Against Poverty since 2003, was killed early last Thursday morning on his bike. In his memory, the first annual Craig Murphey Memorial Party Fund Raiser to raise money for Craig's charity work is being held at Royal Oak at 594 [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2007, 11:44am EDT
  

• Friday Oct 26th: Halloween Critical Mass and Party at Time's Up

  Almost forgot! Tomorrow - Halloween Critical Mass 7pm Union Square. Free arrests by the NYPD for anyone dressed as bicyclist or a commie first-amendment loving bastard. Ok, no they have not been doing arrests - but watch out for ticketing scooters. Hanging out in the park has been safe, so [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2007, 3:51pm EDT
  

• Make Your Voice Heard On Congestion Pricing: Upcoming Public Hearings

  The NYC Traffic Congestion Mitigation Commission is taking testimony at a series of public hearings over the next couple weeks. You can give your opinions and/or proposals for dealing with traffic congestion in New York City.
  
  Oral testimony will be limited to five (5) minutes’ duration. Twenty copies of [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2007, 8:24am EDT
  

• NYC Gourmet Food Supplier Fires Four More Workers In Defiance of Court Order

  Owners of gourmet food supplier Wild Edibles might be in more hot water, this time for firing several of its workers, after a court ordered them not to. Wild Edibles is already embroiled in a lawsuit with some of its employees for alegedly illegally withholding pay and overtime benefits, and [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2007, 10:14am EDT
  

• Thousands of NYC Chinese Dishwashers and Waiters Donate Thousands To Clinton Campaign. Each?!!

  Woa, so just what is going on over at the Hillary Fundraising Headquarters? Earlier today the LA Times broke a story that Clinton supposedly has been getting donations from thousands and thousands of low income Chinese throughout NYC:
  
  Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2007, 7:05pm EDT
  

• NYC Bar Association Outs Quinn On Her Power To Change Parade Permit Rules

  In a stunning public letter to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, NYC Bar Association President Barry Kamin responds directly to Quinn's recent editorial in the NY Blade in which she suggests she is powerless to change Parade Permit rules created by the NYPD. Mr. Kamin outs her, labeling [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2007, 11:12am EDT
  

• Stop Hillary Clinton Surpasses Obama Group on Facebook

  Via Bouldin at DailyGotham we learn, there's more disdain for Hillary than there is love for Obama at the social networking service Facebook. A group called "Stop Hillary Clinton" has swelled to nearly half a million members since starting in February.
  
  
  
  The group [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2007, 9:47am EDT
  

• Verizon Plans To Share Your Data Unless You Opt Out

  Verizon is very popular in NYC, so many will find this interesting. Via Slashdot:
  
  Verizon Wireless is planning to share its customers' calling records (called CPNI) with "our affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries." The article explains that CPNI "includes the numbers of [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2007, 8:23am EDT
  

• Ron Paul in NYC Tonight, Tomorrow

  Wow - we'll onNYTurf is riding some crazy Ron Paul zania from Digg - 14,000 reads on yesterday's story about registering yourself as a Republican to vote in the Republican Primary in NY State. That's like a year of traffic for the site - LOL! - crazy. So here [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2007, 9:36am EDT
  

• Quadriad Passes On A Good Deal

  As this report at Brooklyn11211 states Quadriad is proceeding with the as of right portion of its development:
  
  Henry Wollman of Quadriad made a brief informational presentation to Community Board 1 tonight. Mr. Wollman... stated that the as-of-right project is being permitted now and will start construction "next [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2007, 11:19am EDT
  

• Register To Vote In Republican Primary, Deadline Oct 12!

  Lets talk about that uncomfortable subject... The Fix. Hillary Clinton is starting to look like a lock. Yeah, yeah, Iowa, Edwards is awesome, Obama is black, Gore is going to win the Nobel Prize, bla bla bla. Two words: People love Bill Clinton and his wife has a shit load [...]

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  Posted: October 11, 2007, 2:08am EDT
  

• Quinn Plays Dumb On Parade Permit Rules Creation: I Didn't Write Them

  So Quinn appears to not be enjoying her roll in the creation of parade permit rules by the NYPD. Today Quinn responds to the ongoing criticism of her in a NY Blade opinion piece.
  
  Her argument?: It's not my fault.
  
  Quinn's only point in the opinion [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2007, 5:40pm EDT
  

• Prosecutor Stalls On Rev Billy First Amendment Harassment Case - Postponed Until Oct 15

  Tuesday Manhattan Prosecutor Mary Weisgerber asked for more time to explain how Rev Billy was harassing officers, when he was reciting the First Amendment toward officers, during a protest before Critical Mass in June. Judge Tanya Kennedy inexplicably granted her request, and the district attorney’s office now has until Oct. [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2007, 9:30pm EDT
  

• File This in The "Why Don't You Just Stay In The Suburbs Where You Like It" Category

  Gothamist reports that parents in the West Village want to shut down the S & M Street Festival that is scheduled for Sunday Oct 7th.
  
  Residents of the West Village are calling for the removal of Community Board 2 Chairperson Brad Hoylman and CB2 District Manager Bob Gormley... [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2007, 5:35pm EDT
  

• This Evening: Rally At City Hall For Affordable Housing Funding

  Advocates for affordable housing will rally at City Hall to call on The City to help fund the The New York City Housing Authority, one of The City's largest affordable housing providers. NYCHA faces a operating budget deficit of $225 Million this year. Residents and advocates say they are outraged [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2007, 2:38pm EDT
  

• Photos From Memorial For Houston St Victim Hope Miller

  Times-Up! and Visual Resistance held a memorial for New York pedestrian Hope Miller who was killed on Houston Street by a crazed driver. Ms. Miller was 28 years old. That's a damn shame. A slideshow of the memorial has been posted to Flicker.
  
  Photos by Philipp Rassmann:
  [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2007, 6:52pm EDT
  

• Taxi Drivers Planning To Strike Again

  Via NY1:
  The head of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance says her group will roll out its plan for a possible second strike tomorrow, now that GPS devices are mandated by city law.
  
  Bhairavi Desai says her group has given the green light to a second strike, [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2007, 12:25pm EDT
  

• Memorial Tonight For Pedestrian Killed on Houston St

  Tonight at 6pm at Houston St. and 6th Ave another memorial will go up on death row.
  
  Time's Up! will hold a memorial to commemorate Hope Miller, 28, and raise awareness of the City's failure to address unsafe conditions for cyclists and pedestrians on Houston Street. Miller was [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2007, 8:34am EDT
  

• NYPD Secretly Test Surveillance In Lower Manhattan

  The Daily News has an exclusive this morning that they have learned that "a high-tech camera in lower Manhattan has been secretly monitoring the license plates of passing cars periodically for more than six months in a test of the city's planned 'Ring of Steel' surveillance system"
  
  The [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2007, 8:00am EDT
  

• Lovely Night For A Parade Without A Permit

  
  
  Great photos from Saturday Evening's Parade Without A Permit. The Parade was a spontaneous gathering of people outraged by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's support for Parade Permit rules which require "recognizable groups" of 50 more to get a permit to parade - whether the parade [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2007, 2:43pm EDT
  

• RHA Stings Quinn Again, Puts Spotlight on Her Support of Parade Permit Rules During Stonewall ...

  
  Photo via James Wagner
  
  Amazing! The Radical Homosexual Agenda is amping the attention on Quinn's complicity in the creation of the NYPD Parade Permit Rules. Again they have put the issue front and center to the City Council Speaker in front of her base constituency. [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2007, 5:31pm EDT
  

• Interview With FuturePerfect at NoLandGrab

  NoLandGrab.org has interviewed the creators of the very interesting and interactive Atlantic Yards study FuturePerfect. Its a nice long interview and they go into a lot of depth about it. NoLandGrab was nice enough to also ask our question about making the technique of this very cool [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2007, 1:35pm EDT
  

• Atlantic Yards: Future Perfect

  There is a wonderful new independent project that offers another investigation of the Atlantic Yards project. It is a 3D interactive video installation that renders the planned Atlantic Yards buildings on a video of the area, and it does the rendering as people walk past the screen. This is [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2007, 12:24pm EDT
  

• Saturday Sept 29: Parade Without A Permit On Quinn's Turf

  The Radical Homosexual Agenda is still pissed off about the Police Parade Permit Rules (who isn't?), which are endorsed by City Council Speaker Quinn. This Saturday RHA will remind Quinn again that her support for these rules is hypocritical, not to mention disgusting, with an unpermitted march through her [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2007, 11:36am EDT
  

• Sunday: Street Actions 101 - Presentation and Skills-Share

  Ever been in a street protest, or always wanted to, but were too scared? Or maybe you've been tempted to give the police a piece of your mind next time they try to take away another one of our rights? What ever the case may be, its good to know [...]
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  Posted: September 19, 2007, 11:20pm EDT
  

• NYTimes Online Edition, And Business Sense, Gets Better

  Hahahahaha - so according to itself, the NYTimes is going to free up much of its website. The reason I laugh is because charging a fee for access to its site was a very dumb idea to begin with.
  
  Here is the key observation in all this:
  “But [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2007, 10:33am EDT
  

• Workers Suing Large NYC Seafood Supplier For Unpaid Wages

  Update: The judge gave them the restraining order they requested: "IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Defendants, their agents and employees, and all other persons acting in concert with then, are hereby restrained and enjoined from retaliating against any Plaintiff or potential Plaintiff for participating in this lawsuit and prohibited from [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2007, 3:10pm EDT
  

• Tonight: CB3 Community Board Zoning Task Force Meeting To Discuss Rezoning The Bowery

  This Monday, 9/17, at 6:30pm, 113 Second Avenue (btwn 6th & 7th Sts), the Community Board Zoning Task Force will meet to discuss plans for a rezoning of the Bowery.
  
  Some residents of the Lower East Side are concerned that a new rezoning will not be completed in time [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2007, 11:40am EDT
  

• Yankee Stadium Deal Gets Worse

  The City is looking to unilaterally change its Yankee Stadium Plan "Community Benefits Agreement" to allow parking in the Stadium Garages year round. According to the original deal, the garages were to only be open on game days - 81 days a year. Community activists generally opposed the garages because [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2007, 11:36am EDT
  

• Yankee Fans, Defined By Their Oppression

  
  
  While I will forever hate the Yankee organization, you have to feel for the fans who suffer some of the greatest intolerance in the world. From the crass YankSox:
  
  No one ever said being a Yankees fan was easy. While other teams seemingly pull [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2007, 11:47am EDT
  

• NYC Transit Comes Through With Data?

  I have an update to our MTA FOIL saga - trying to get schedule data from the MTA - we allegedly are going to get a CD with NYC Transit information. They charged us $50 for the hassle too, which seemed fair, since if it really does answer our request [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2007, 1:48pm EDT
  

• Some Taxi Drivers On Strike For 2 Days

  Some taxi drivers have gone on strike this morning for a 2 day period over new requirements by the TLC. The TLC wants to require taxi cabs have GPS for tracking the meter, digital maps for passengers, and credit card processing which will take 5% of the fare out of [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2007, 8:17am EDT
  

• Many Taxi Drivers On Strike For 2 Days

  Update: The NYTimes reports that the lack of cabs is noticeable. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance claimed this morning that 80% of the cabs are on strike. Based on looking out my window here on 8th Ave in Hell's Kitchen I would say that sounds like a stretch [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2007, 8:17am EDT
  

• Finally, City-Tax Free Luxury Shopping

  Sweet! Someone call Condie and tell her they got deals at Ferragamo!
  
  Shoppers no longer have to pay city sales tax on clothing or shoes – regardless of the price – after new legislation went into effect Saturday.
  
  Shoppers had been paying city and state taxes on items [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2007, 10:26pm EDT
  

• Driving Up The Cost Of Transportation

  The City wants Taxis to install digital maps for passengers, GPS for tracking the meter (not for driver navigation), and a credit card system. All these things have to be paid for. The GPS is pretty annoying since its not even a customer benefit, its just a way for [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2007, 10:25am EDT
  

• Weekend of Carnival

  
  
  One of the largest Carnival parades happens in NYC this weekend in Brooklyn. The West Indian American Day Carnival Parade is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year. This parade is one of the largest on this side of the world. The parade is Monday Labor Day [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2007, 8:00am EDT
  

• Tucker Carlson Brags of Assault on Gay Man, MSNBC News Director Dan Abrams Laughs It Up

  Wow! Well, I wonder if there has ever been a more clear case of how culturally acceptable Gay Bashing is than what transpired this week on MSNBC. Two days ago on MSNBC Conservative TV Host Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough, and MSNBC Executive News Director Dan Abrams were discussing the [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2007, 1:09pm EDT
  

• Long Island Rail Road: Schedule Data? Never Heard of It

  This is a hilarious update to our MTA Schedule Data FOIL Request Story. I have just arrived back from Berlin and am reading through all the letters my attorney sent me from the various MTA agencies and came across a great one from Long Island Railroad. We requested their [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2007, 8:49am EDT
  

• Long Island Rail Road: Schedule Data? Never Heard of It

  This is a hilarious update to our MTA Schedule Data FOIL Request Story. I have just arrived back from Berlin and am reading through all the letters my attorney sent me from the various MTA agencies and came across a great one from Long Island Railroad. We requested their [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2007, 7:49am EDT
  

• It Is High Time The MTA Offer Its Schedule Data As A Public Feed

  The other day there was news that the MTA and Google would be collaborating on a new transit service site of some sort. This is a great opportunity for the MTA to make its schedule data publicly available in a way that is easy for software developers to use. The [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2007, 7:01am EDT
  

• It Is High Time The MTA Offer Its Schedule Data As A Public Feed

  The other day there was news that the MTA and Google would be collaborating on a new transit service site of some sort. This is a great opportunity for the MTA to make its schedule data publicly available in a way that is easy for software developers to use. The [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2007, 6:01am EDT
  

• New Website: People's 311

  
  
  StayFree Magazine has put together a new website which NYers can use to report problems and increase urgency around problems in the city. The new site is Peoples311.com and is similar to other community reporting sites like MyBikeLane. The site is great because it [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2007, 8:00am EDT
  

• New Website: People's 311

  
  
  StayFree Magazine has put together a new website which NYers can use to report problems and increase urgency around problems in the city. The new site is Peoples311.com and is similar to other community reporting sites like MyBikeLane. The site is great because it [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2007, 7:00am EDT
  

• Visions of Subway Map Future

  This summer, apart from a trip around the EU, I have been spending a lot of time working on upgrades to this site. There will be a number of new features throughout the site, and the Subway Map is also going to get a number of upgrades, including a UI [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2007, 7:22am EDT
  

• Visions of Subway Map Future

  This summer, apart from a trip around the EU, I have been spending a lot of time working on upgrades to this site. There will be a number of new features throughout the site, and the Subway Map is also going to get a number of upgrades, including a UI [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2007, 6:22am EDT
  

• Wire Less In Weinmar

  I'll be on a bit of vacation for the next 8 days though Germany and Austria and Switzerland. I'll actually not have any internet service during this time, not even a laptop on hand to surf to a Starbucks. So things will be quite around here. I hope Chrissy enjoys [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2007, 6:15pm EDT
  

• Wire Less In Weinmar

  I'll be on a bit of vacation for the next 8 days though Germany and Austria and Switzerland. I'll actually not have any internet service during this time, not even a laptop on hand to surf to a Starbucks. So things will be quite around here. I hope Chrissy enjoys [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2007, 5:15pm EDT
  

• Major Subway Service Disruptions This Morning, City Advises Using Buses

  City wide the Subway appears to be nearly crippled after heavy rain!
  Via the NYTimes CityRoom blog which will likely do updates throughout the day. Don't even bother trying the MTA site, they still use an old Atari 2600 to power their site.
  
  Flooding from torrential overnight rains [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2007, 9:44am EDT
  

• Major Subway Service Disruptions This Morning, City Advises Using Buses

  City wide the Subway appears to be nearly crippled after heavy rain!
  Via the NYTimes CityRoom blog which will likely do updates throughout the day. Don't even bother trying the MTA site, they still use an old Atari 2600 to power their site.
  
  Flooding from torrential overnight rains [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2007, 8:44am EDT
  

• City Misses Opportunity To Pass Meaningful 421a Reform

  This is not reform!
  
  We have seen first hand the devastating effects of the New York City housing boom on the residents of our city, mainly low income people who cannot afford to live in their apartments with all the rent increases applied to rent stabilized apartments.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2007, 5:39am EDT
  

• City Misses Opportunity To Pass Meaningful 421a Reform

  This is not reform!
  
  We have seen first hand the devastating effects of the New York City housing boom on the residents of our city, mainly low income people who cannot afford to live in their apartments with all the rent increases applied to rent stabilized apartments.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2007, 4:39am EDT
  

• Rev Billy First Amendment Recitation Trial Begins

  Free Speech lawyer Norman Siegel appeared in court today with co-counsel Earl Ward arguing for the dismissal of 2nd Degree Harassment charges against Reverend Billy (aka Bill Talen). The activist preacher was arrested on June 29 for reciting the First Amendment in Union Square, but Siegel insisted Reverend Billy [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2007, 11:45am EDT
  

• Rev Billy First Amendment Recitation Trial Begins

  Free Speech lawyer Norman Siegel appeared in court today with co-counsel Earl Ward arguing for the dismissal of 2nd Degree Harassment charges against Reverend Billy (aka Bill Talen). The activist preacher was arrested on June 29 for reciting the First Amendment in Union Square, but Siegel insisted Reverend Billy [...]
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  Posted: August 07, 2007, 10:45am EDT
  

• Bloomberg Will Revise Rules On Film and Video Permits

  In what is an embarrassing retraction, the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting is planning to revise proposed rules that would have required any group of two or more people using a camera in a public location for more than half an hour, and any group of five [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2007, 5:50pm EDT
  

• Bloomberg Will Revise Rules On Film and Video Permits

  In what is an embarrassing retraction, the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting is planning to revise proposed rules that would have required any group of two or more people using a camera in a public location for more than half an hour, and any group of five [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2007, 4:50pm EDT
  

• Giuliani on Judy: Stellar Two Year Nursing Degree

  OH MY GOD, THIS IS HILARIOUS!
  
  Giuliani, once a racist, fascist, scourge to sensible New Yorkers, is now the gift that never stops giving. Nobody could deny that Rudy had reached a theatrical coup when he told his wife that he was divorcing her during a press conference. [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2007, 3:57pm EDT
  

• Giuliani on Judy: Stellar Two Year Nursing Degree

  OH MY GOD, THIS IS HILARIOUS!
  
  Giuliani, once a racist, fascist, scourge to sensible New Yorkers, is now the gift that never stops giving. Nobody could deny that Rudy had reached a theatrical coup when he told his wife that he was divorcing her during a press conference. [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2007, 2:57pm EDT
  

• The Real Bloomberg Commute

  Yadda yadda the Mayor takes the subway... for 3/4 of his commute:
  
  On mornings that he takes the subway from home, Mr. Bloomberg is picked up at his Upper East Side town house by a pair of king-size Chevrolet Suburbans. The mayor is driven 22 blocks to the subway [...]
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  Posted: August 01, 2007, 2:45am EDT
  

• The Real Bloomberg Commute

  Yadda yadda the Mayor takes the subway... for 3/4 of his commute:
  
  On mornings that he takes the subway from home, Mr. Bloomberg is picked up at his Upper East Side town house by a pair of king-size Chevrolet Suburbans. The mayor is driven 22 blocks to the subway [...]
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  Posted: August 01, 2007, 1:45am EDT
  

• Murdoch Seen Winning in Bid for Dow Jones

  NYTimes says it is looking likely that Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corporation (a $28 Billion Global Media Empire), will be able to acquire The Wall Street Journal. Since the Reagan Administration the consolidation of media has been allowed on a grand scale. The NYTimes has two reports on [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2007, 5:00pm EDT
  

• Murdoch Seen Winning in Bid for Dow Jones

  NYTimes says it is looking likely that Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corporation (a $28 Billion Global Media Empire), will be able to acquire The Wall Street Journal. Since the Reagan Administration the consolidation of media has been allowed on a grand scale. The NYTimes has two reports on [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2007, 4:00pm EDT
  

• Thursday Mass Protest At City Hall Against More Rules Taking Away Civil Rights - Eyes On Quinn Again

  Thursday Aug 2, will be the first day where video tapping and taking of snapshots will be banned or greatly restricted in NYC, unless approved by Police! Several groups are planning to protest this ban on that day Thursday, August 2 at 4:30 at City Hall.
  
  As we all [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2007, 10:41am EDT
  

• Thursday Mass Protest At City Hall Against More Rules Taking Away Civil Rights - Eyes On Quinn Again

  Thursday Aug 2, will be the first day where video tapping and taking of snapshots will be banned or greatly restricted in NYC, unless approved by Police! Several groups are planning to protest this ban on that day Thursday, August 2 at 4:30 at City Hall.
  
  As we all [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2007, 9:41am EDT
  

• First Amendment Fest Before Critical Mass Tonight in Union Square

  So last month Reverend Billy was arrested for reciting the first amendment to the police officers "hanging out" in Union Square before Critical Mass. That same day word of new insane restrictions on use of cameras in public spaces was published in the NYTimes. Pretty much things have gotten completely [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2007, 9:40am EDT
  

• First Amendment Fest Before Critical Mass Tonight in Union Square

  So last month Reverend Billy was arrested for reciting the first amendment to the police officers "hanging out" in Union Square before Critical Mass. That same day word of new insane restrictions on use of cameras in public spaces was published in the NYTimes. Pretty much things have gotten completely [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2007, 8:40am EDT
  

• Artists Call on NYers to Send Mayor A Vision of His Crazy New Restrictions on Street Photography

  A new group of artists and photographers, '>Picture New York, has formed to oppose these new insane photography rules created by Bloomberg's office that would basically criminalize using a cameras and video equipment - of course at the NYPD's discretion. And they want YOU to send the mayor [...]
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  Posted: July 26, 2007, 6:33pm EDT
  

• Artists Call on NYers to Send Mayor A Vision of His Crazy New Restrictions on Street Photography

  A new group of artists and photographers, '>Picture New York, has formed to oppose these new insane photography rules created by Bloomberg's office that would basically criminalize using a cameras and video equipment - of course at the NYPD's discretion. And they want YOU to send the mayor [...]
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  Posted: July 26, 2007, 5:33pm EDT
  

• onNYTurf Exclusive: First Look At New Comprehensive Review of Williamsburg Greenpoint Rezoning

  A whopping new comprehensive review of the rezoning of Williamsburg and Greenpoint has been released by The Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy At Rutgers University in conjunction with The New York City Community Council. onNYTurf got a first look at this report and below highlight just of some [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 6:15pm EDT
  

• onNYTurf Exclusive: First Look At New Comprehensive Review of Williamsburg Greenpoint Rezoning

  A whopping new comprehensive review of the rezoning of Williamsburg and Greenpoint has been released by The Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy At Rutgers University in conjunction with The New York City Community Council. onNYTurf got a first look at this report and below highlight just of some [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2007, 5:15pm EDT
  

• Developers Rush To Lock In Tax Breaks Before New 421-a Rules Take Effect

  One of the many troubling aspects of the so called 421-a reform bill is the extension of the current program for six additional months. As you will read in this article developers are in a buying frenzy to get vested under the current 421-a program.
  
  "The need for [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2007, 10:55am EDT
  

• Developers Rush To Lock In Tax Breaks Before New 421-a Rules Take Effect

  One of the many troubling aspects of the so called 421-a reform bill is the extension of the current program for six additional months. As you will read in this article developers are in a buying frenzy to get vested under the current 421-a program.
  
  "The need for [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2007, 9:55am EDT
  

• What Does the Department of City Planning Intend for the Bowery

  A major rezoning of the Lower East Side is in progress. Rob Hollander who writes at http://savethelowereastside.blogspot.com/ sent along an excellent summary of 3 zoning proposals that are on the table: The current plan by the city, a proposal put forward by the Community Board, and a [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2007, 9:49am EDT
  

• What Does the Department of City Planning Intend for the Bowery

  A major rezoning of the Lower East Side is in progress. Rob Hollander who writes at http://savethelowereastside.blogspot.com/ sent along an excellent summary of 3 zoning proposals that are on the table: The current plan by the city, a proposal put forward by the Community Board, and a [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2007, 8:49am EDT
  

• Students Protest NYPD Harassment in Brooklyn

  SCARP, the recently organized group of students who were mass arrested by the NYPD while walking to a wake for their killed friend, protested outside the 83rd Precinct in Brooklyn on Monday. Here is video by Mobile Broadcast News of the event, via Vlog Flux. Best part [...]
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  Posted: July 13, 2007, 3:23am EDT
  

• Hot New Nabe:LBC Lockdown Below Canal

  Well, it really only was a matter of time before the NYPD and the Bloomberg administration got a complete surveillance system of Lower Manhattan going.
  
  Highlights:
  
  

  • 116 license plate readers

  
  

  • 3000 surveillance cameras would be installed below Canal Street by the end of 2008

  
  

  • [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2007, 10:34am EDT
  

• Students Organize to Fight NYPD Mass Arrest - Rally Monday

  The group of students who were mass arrested on their way to a wake have formed a new group and will rally to raise awareness of their case. Student Coalition Against Racial Profiling (SCARP) will be rallying outside the 83rd Precinct on Monday, July 9th at 4pm. This group [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2007, 6:51am EDT
  

• Rent Increase Rates for 2007-2008

  The Rent Guideline Board has handed down rent increases for Stabilized apartments and Lofts. The new rates are for leases renewed starting October 1, 2007. For those of you with stabilized apartments the permissible increase is 3% for a one-year lease and 5.75% for a two-year lease. For lofts, the [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2007, 6:40am EDT
  

• The Delicate Beast Unravels

  onNYTurf republishes select articles from DDDB.net, this article is cross posted from here.
  
  Stemming, apparently, from documents retrieved by Assemblyman James Brennan and State Sentor Velmanette Montgomery there is a big article in the NY Times today about the shaky ground the "delicate beast" known as Atlantic Yards [...]
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  Posted: July 01, 2007, 10:55am EDT
  

• Reciting First Amendment in Front of NYPD = Harassment of a Public Official

  At Critical Mass on Friday the Reverend Billy was arrested for "Harassment of a Public Official". The Reverend was preaching about the First Amendment on the east side of the park near the north end, where the NYPD also parks a lineup of scooters before each Critical Mass.
  
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  Posted: July 01, 2007, 10:30am EDT
  

• City Moves To Require Permit for Public Photography

  Jesus H Fucking Christ! The NYTimes reports the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting is drafting rules to require any group of two or more people who want to use a camera in a single public location for more than a half hour to get a city permit [...]
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  Posted: June 29, 2007, 2:08pm EDT
  

• New Yorkers Unite Against NY's Eminent Domain Abuse

  Publisher's Note: On Wednesday this week a new coalition of neighborhood groups gathered on city hall steps to highlight the abuse of eminent domain in property development plans throughout NYC. Unfortunately this event, which was pretty remarkable as it pulled groups from across the city, was mostly overshadowed by a [...]
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  Posted: June 29, 2007, 9:27am EDT
  

• The Splashers Speak - This Story is Not Redundant to Gothamist

  A anonymous group of activists nick named "the splashers", who go around throwing paint on graffiti art have published a manifesto. And its genius. The NYTimes has posted a (shitty) pdf copy of it.
  
  In case you are not hip enough to know, "the splasher" or "splashers" go/es [...]
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  Posted: June 28, 2007, 7:30pm EDT