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Tag Archives: New York Times
The Times and traffic “accidents”
The New York Times needs to stop using the term “accident” to describe traffic collisions. Continue reading
Out with a blast: the Pratt whistles blow one final(?) time
A recap of the Conrad Milster’s whistle-blowing extravaganza at Pratt Institute on New Year’s Eve, which might have been the last installment of the 49-year tradition. Continue reading
December 16: a grisly New York anniversary
A jet crashed into Park Slope on December 16, 1960, in what was then the deadliest aviation incident in history. Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged December 16, LaGuardia Airport, New York Methodist Hospital, New York Times, Park Slope plane crash, Pillar of Fire Church, Prospect Park, Seventh Avenue (Brooklyn), Staten Island, Stephen Baltz, Sterling Place, The Day the Boy Fell From the Sky, TWA Flight 266, United Airlines Flight 826, Wendell Jamieson
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Protecting bike messengers and deliverymen
If you wouldn’t use the roads during a blizzard, why would you make someone else do so to bring you food? Because there’s no reason not to. That should change. Continue reading
Posted in Safe Streets, Thoughts
Tagged Amazon.com, Bicycle messenger, bikenyc, blizzards, eBay, food delivery, Hilary Stout, New York City, New York Times, Seamless
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Death by automobile: a question of semantics
Would our reaction to Saturday’s massacre in Fort Greene have been different had a gun been involved? Continue reading