Uncategorized — Sunday, May 15, 2011 2:03
‘What’s New’ at the M.T.A.? ‘Higher Prices!’
Could the 3rd ave El have been save? and Connected into the Subway …
Monday, May 2, 2011 2:02
The third Avenue El originally traveled all the way down 3rd Avenue to South Ferry. The line was slowly cut back: It was cut back to Chatham Square in 1950, and was cut back to 149th Street in 1955. As far as tying it into another line goes, the only line with enough capacity would’ve [...]
Streetsblog New York City » Swap the Suburban Payroll Tax for East River Bridge Tolls — Deal or No Deal?
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:00
Five Senate Republicans, led by Sen. John Bonacic, are making transit advocates an offer they can probably refuse. The payoff is appealing: state authorization for bridge tolls on the East River bridges. but the price they are demanding in return, the total repeal of the payroll mobility tax outside New York City, is too high [...]
Making Light: Geeky standup comedy in NYC
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 2:00
Geeky standup comedy in NYCPosted by Avram Grumer at 11:28 PM * 15 comments My friend Sumana Harihareswara is working on a geeky standup comedy routine (“about project management, Linux, relationships, Agile, public transit, science fiction, and these Kids Today”), and needs an audience of science fiction and computer nerds in front of whom to [...]
Is Penn station located in New York City?
Friday, April 22, 2011 4:00
Question by Erick L: Is Penn station located in new York City? I am planning to go to new York City, to see one of the best Broadway musicals ever. and i just want to know if the Penn station is really located in new York City. Cause i don’t want to end up in [...]
The Book Bench: Down Below the Street: Helvetica and the New York City Subway System : The New Yorker
Friday, April 22, 2011 2:00
There are a few truths New Yorkers hold to be self-evident. 1. You can’t get a taxi in the rain. 2. Anything can be delivered at anytime, to anywhere. 3. The official font of the MTA is Helvetica. Okay, so maybe the last one is less self-evident. still, typography lovers and design aficionados know that [...]
500 Servlet Exception
Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:00
[show] javax.el.ELException: org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException: failedto lazily initialize a collection of role: com.amg.common.pixie.core.domain.CMSDocument.documentRelationships,no session or session was closedorg.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processingfailed; nested exception is com.amg.condenet.commons.exceptions.ApplicationBug:-:[2077686727]:- Thread id: 77404. [Cause bug: com.amg.condenet.commons.exceptions.ApplicationBug:-:[368019401]:- Thread id: 39930. Cause: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException.Msg: Invalid uri ‘blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/04/down-below-the-street-helvetica-and-the-new-york-city-subway-system.html</link><guid?proxyuri=online%2Fblogs%2Fbooks%2F2011%2F04%2Fdown-below-the-street-helvetica-and-the-new-york-city-subway-system.html%3C%2Flink%3E%3Cguid’:escaped absolute path not valid. ->> 10:org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.<init>[222]->> 9:org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod.<init>[89]->> 8:com.amg.condenet.commons.web.taglib.proxy.ProxyServiceHttp.getHttpMethod[266]->> 7:com.amg.condenet.commons.web.taglib.proxy.ProxyServiceHttp.get[112]:[url=blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/04/down-below-the-street-helvetica-and-the-new-york-city-subway-system.html</link><guid][followRedirects=true]->> 6:sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor527.invoke[-1]->> 5:sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke[25]->> 4:java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke[597]->> 3:com.amg.condenet.commons.spring.ScheduledWork.run[64]->> 2:de.myfoo.commonj.work.FooWorkItem.run[101]->> 1:EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.PooledExecutor$Worker.run[-1]->> 0:java.lang.Thread.run[619]]. Cause: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException. Msg: [...]
ONE DAY WILL BE FAREWELL: No Handle on My Bars
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 2:01
This is how I found my bike last FridayThere are only a few things in life that are worse than having to go to work Monday to Friday, only to repeat the process after two short days of relaxation. This past Friday what I thought was the start of a fine weekend turned to sadness [...]
New App to Crowd-Source NYC Subway Delay Information
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 4:00
(Andrea Bernstein, Transportation Nation) using the NYC MTA’s information page, or any of the apps based on it can be an exercise in imagined bliss. on the one hand, it’s thrilling to get information on subway status, and whether a line is running before setting out for a subway stop. on the other hand, the [...]
Report: Apple’s Biggest Store Ever is Coming to Grand Central Station
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 2:00
by Max Eddy | 4:56 pm, February 17th, 2011 Cult of Mac reports with some degree of certainty that Apple is planning to construct a new Apple Store inside New York’s Grand Central Station. This would be the fifth Apple store in Manhattan, and, if opened this year as reported, would coincide with the 10th anniversary of [...]
