September 22, 2008
More NY: $5.69 Staten Island Ferry ride, new JetBlue
Air Force One landing at JFK this afternoon, by NewYorkology contributor Vidiot
Staten Island Ferry still free to riders; but taxpayers providing $5.69 subsidy per ride (Post)
Taxpayers shelled out a record $5.69 last year for every “free” ride on the Staten Island Ferry, as soaring fuel costs drove up the annual operating tab to $112 million, according to newly released data.
Digging foundations for WTC Tower 4, workers find an Ice Age “pothole” (NY Times)
Along the east side of the pothole, the rock layers run vertically — not horizontally. The result, where the surface has been carved away in a concave form, is an abstract canvas of swirling, concentric rings; not unlike a gouge in a wall that reveals many layers of old paint. This speaks of a period far more ancient than the glaciers, about 500 million years ago, when the edges of the colliding North American and African continental plates got shuffled together.
New NYC matchbooks bear images of rotting gums, tumor-ridden lips (Crain’s)
On Monday, the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene distributed 400,000 matchbooks printed with graphic images of cancers generally related to cigarette smoking. Bodega owners agreed to give them out free in three of the city’s unhealthiest neighborhoods, Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, the South Bronx and Harlem.
“13: The Musical” cuts “fagmo” from show after protest (What’s Good/What Blows in NY Theatre)
Apparently, Broadway.com told the producers of 13, THE MUSICAL that while they’d continue to sell tickets to the Jason Robert Brown musical about tiny people with tiny problems, they would not market the show to teenagers or tell schools it was appropriate for students. “My Goodness, isn’t that 13’s target demographic??”, you might ask. Why yes, it is
JFK-Paris, plus six nights hotel for a mere $799 (Frommers via Online Travel Review)
That $799 price reflects roundtrip airfare departing from New York-JFK on British Airways January 8-23 2009 — for a standard room, double occupancy, at the Comfort Hotel Davout Nation, located about five minutes from the Porte de Montreuil-Metro.
At the ribbon-cutting ceremony for JetBlue’s new JFK terminal (Jaunted)
Also on view at the new terminal are some fancy seats from Lufthansa, which owns 19 percent of JetBlue. And our spy on the scene says they’re serving “T5-tinis,” which sounds nice!
September 22, 2008 4:03 PM in Etceterology
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