Renderings and Listings Appear for the Sackett Union (340 Court St.)

Big and pricey units, and already 50% sold. Looks like I'm sliding
further down the median income scale in Carroll Gardens. On the plus
side, the coloring is a definite improvement over Clarrett's plan.

http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/10/renderings-and-listings-appear-for-the-sackett-union/


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MTA Builds Bridge to Future With No-Cash Tolls - Metropolis - WSJ

Cashless tolling set to begin one year pilot on the Henry Hudson. No
one enjoys paying tolls, but they serve a useful purpose: raising
funds and assigning direct costs to driving behavior.

Growing up in NJ and dependent on the Garden State Parkway, I HATED
tolls. Partly because my dad gated tolls, but mostly because of the
maddening inconvenience and obvious waste involved.

As an ADT I've grown to appreciate the value of tolls. But I still
hate the friction in the process. On the GSP Gov. McGreevey halved
the toll plazas and doubled the tolls, which made the drive much more
bearable. Then they added high speed tolling via EZPass, and suddenly
it's like an early 90s AT&T commercial.

It's past time to bring this technology to NYC … and to start tolling
those free East River crossings. Actually, it's time the MTA and Port
Authority sat down together to lay out a fair and comprehensive
tolling scheme for their combined NY-Metro portfolios.

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/10/08/mta-builds-bridge-to-future-with-no-cash-tolls/


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New Dey Street Station Entrance

The TriBeCa Citizen has a bunch of photos.  Sample below from their website. Looks sharp!  Note the elevator entrance. 

http://tribecacitizen.com/2012/10/08/new-subway-entrance-opens/

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Dey Street Entrance to Fulton Street Transit Center Opens

Buried in a story about the new Metrocard ads, a piece of useful news:

"Meanwhile,starting today, riders use a new entrance on Dey Street to
enter the 4 and 5 lines in Lower Manhattan."

http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/new_mta_ads_mind_the_gap_cnMtV8GNgjKqDYgJOZVRmM

What Krugman Says

It's not just bizarre but frightening that a major political movement in this country is not only rooting for American failure to pin on Obama, but that they're so swept up in their FoxNews/Limbaugh/Drudge bubble they can't relate to actual facts any more. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/opinion/krugman-truth-about-jobs.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

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Reince Priebus Forced Back Into Ancient Puzzle Box After Being Tricked Into Saying Name Backwards | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Chilling to imagine my distant ancestors plagued by "the Prybus".

http://www.theonion.com/articles/reince-priebus-forced-back-into-ancient-puzzle-box,29803/?ref=auto#


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Bloomberg Caption Contest

… at Queens Crap. I'm going with "Mensch McConnell". 

http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-new-look-for-bloomie.html

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