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I almost forgot about Summer Streets entirely--this Saturday is the last day they're doing it this year-- and that's even considering that in the back of my head I tried to remember that I wanted to go one day to walk inside the Park Avenue Tunnel. Turns out that this is the first year they're actually letting pedestrians into it for Summer Streets ( Read more... )

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Usually I curse the annual Summer Streets thing as yet another stupid idea from the people who carved up roads to make "pedestrian plazas" and made many streets convoluted with bizarre bike lanes, but this year I actually have a plan to use it. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty ends its run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art August 7, which is in the ( Read more... )

"On 3 Days in August, [New York] City Will Try No-Car ZoneThis is just great. I haven't been going to Jersey lately due to lack of income, but when I did I'd leave early in the morning to try to beat traffic and either take the Queensboro/59th Street Bridge to get across town to the Lincoln Tunnel or the Manhattan Bridge to go across town to the ( Read more... )