December 2008

  • Despite economic downturn elsewhere, New York is thriving

    By erika on 12/30/08 10:04am
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    Harvard economist Edward L. Glaeser has published a blog article about New York City's resilience against the recession (depression? Credit crunch? What are we calling it today?) affecting the rest of the country. Glaeser points out that New York City's housing prices dropped only 7.5 percent last year, while the nationwide average was a drop of 18 percent.

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  • LED Streetlights All the Rage

    By erika on 12/18/08 9:19pm
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    Last July, the city's Department of Transportation announced that it was contracting with the Office for Visual Interaction to design a new street light. The OVI won an international competition for its proposed plan, which includes a sleek, redesigned lamp post, as well as a battery of LED lights which can be fine tuned to provide different lighting levels and different light directions.

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  • Taxes. Right.

    By cobwebsandstrange on 12/16/08 10:59pm
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    Troubled times obviously require some sort of drastic, new thinking. But taxation usually won’t get you too many supporters as New York Gov. David Patterson is soon to find out for himself.

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  • The Bronx Cheer

    By jemanji on 12/5/08 11:05pm
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    New Yawkahs are known for their love of sports, their awesome feel for what's going on in the action, their willingness to boo a player out of town, and their no-baloney attitude about it.  In no particular order.

    Play along with Jemanji's bizarro world of rampaging elephants, swarming toucans, and D-Ray scrub squads finishing ahead of $220 million rosters.

    Should players be booed?  Not, do we fans have the right to.  Not, are we going to.  Not, do we feel like it.  But, is it OKAY okay?  Is it a guilty pleasure, or is there nothing guilty about it?



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