New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg hates salt and sugar and last week he asked for a two-year federal exemption to disallowing his 1.7 million NYC welfare recipients from using food stamps to buy soda pop and other sugary concoctions.
Continue reading → Mayor Bloomberg’s Duplicitous Soda Pop Policy
September 1st was my first day of riding the subway to work. Up until now, the Long Island Railroad was the most efficient way to get to my office, time wise. It only took seventeen minutes or so on the Long Island Railroad and I was a short walk away from the office. In just a few short days that will be changing as my office is relocating to Brooklyn — the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, specifically. There is no direct Long Island Railroad (LIRR) route there, and taking the LIRR and transferring to a subway would save about ten minutes and cost one hundred dollars more. This is, of course, unacceptable with baby Davidescu on the way. With that in mind, I could not help but notice many differences between the two train lines.
Continue reading → From Manhattan to Brooklyn: Finding a New Way on the Subway
We have a new AIDS crisis rising in New York City — and while the GMHC are warning against the impending epidemic — this is not just a “Gay” problem any longer.
Janna snapped this image on the “R Train” to Queens the other day. New York City is big on “Banning the Sugar” bandwagon — and that’s a good thing — because sugar is killing us.
We know the iPhone hates sweaty hands. Now I can confirm for you that the iPad is also averse to large, sweaty, men — sort of like the one you see below — unapologetically lurking on the New York City subway system.
Continue reading → The Best Apple Store Support Story Ever Told
The price of a single pack of cigarettes in New York City is now $11.25USD — and that’s just for an ordinary brand. If you’re buying imported, you are going to pay a whole lot more. Marshall Jamison — my friend, inspiration and mentor — used to smoke English Ovals by the fistful, and I’m sure he would be sickened by the high rise prices for a stack of smokes.
Continue reading → A Stack of Smokes is Now $11.25 in New York City
It was May 9, 2010, and Delta Airlines had made it clear to me that they were not going to do the right thing and get me a new flight home. I had to trek over to Jet Blue to get a ticket. Unfortunately, we sometimes make the biggest mistakes when we feel as though we are under the gun, so to speak.
Saint Vincent’s Hospital in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood was an anchor for families and a healer of friends for over 160 years. On May 31, 2010, the hospital closed leaving 3,500 doctors, nurses and support staff unemployed and a jagged neighborhood wound that will never be healed.
Continue reading → Saint Vincent's Hospital Crumbles into a Tombstone
Last week, Janna was in Greenwich Village, and she happened upon a street filming scene near Washington Square Park starring Donald Trump. She snagged The Donald in action with her iPhone. Who knew then what we know now: Trump was filming the opening for last night’s live “Celebrity Apprentice” finale.
Last Friday, I did my yearly social duty and visited my CPA in Manhattan to do the dreaded taxes deed, and to assuage my aching heart and walloped wallet, I always first visit Circuit City on the corner of 14th Street and 4th Avenue in Union Square to put my hands on all the latest technology. Unfortunately, Circuit City is now kaput — but I was pleasantly pleased to see a Best Buy store in the same Circuit City spot.
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