Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Halloweenies
“Yo!” shouts the bicyclist going the wrong way on a one-way.
God am I happy he didn’t ram me with his 10-speed. “Ass-munch,” I mumble.
What is it with you, Bicyclists? I used to ride, too, before my mountain bike was stolen. But I was never as inconsiderate as some of these jerkoffs. You know the type: […]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
A G-Spot Joke I’m Not Going to Touch
The mellifluously-monikered BitchCakesCommutes found a lovely surprise on the seat of the G train, and some seat graffiti explaining exactly what went, er, down.
In case you can’t make that out, it says “I lost my virginity right here” (with an arrow pointing down to the seat). And was even dated “10/23/08″ - which was the […]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Let Us Forgive and Forget the Man Who Got His Arm Stuck in the Metro-North Toilet Five Years Ago
We all make mistakes. Heck, just last Tuesday, I typed a semi-colon when I meant to do the full colon.
So in that spirit let us collectively choose not to rehash the humiliating case of one Edwin Gallart, a Bronx man who exactly five years ago got his arm stuck in a Metro-North toilet while attempting […]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Leaving the Station
The tree across from the train station two weeks ago.
The tree across from the train station this morning.
No Comments » - Posted in Hawthorne by TJ
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
If You’re Not Part of the Solution…
9:30 this morning, huge crowd heading down to the 4-5-6 trains under Grand Central.
There’s an ugly jam-up at the stairs. The 5 has just left, but it appears to have been several minutes since a 6 pulled in, and impatient would-be straphangers are massed on the platform, contributing to the bottleneck.
Then the jam’s true culprit becomes […]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Slip-Sliding Away
Fearing that too many riders thought “Slippery Rail” was the reason LIRR workers gave for their bum knees and sore backs on their disability forms, the MTA issued printouts on Metro-North yesterday informing riders of the autumnal peril alternately known as Slippery Rail and Slip-Slide.
“This condition is created by a slimy substance left by crushed leaves […]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
LIRR Disability Scandal: Managers Sold Disability Pointers to Staffers
Long Island Railroad management sold tips on getting bogus disability claims OK’d to railroad workers, reports today’s NY Times.
A far-reaching investigation into the legitimacy of disabilities at the Long Island Rail Road took a new turn on Monday as witnesses at a state hearing said that L.I.R.R. managers had improperly provided inside help to workers […]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Straphanger Joe Falls Hard on the 6
Kindle Me
By Straphanger Joe
It was an ordinary day on the Upper East Side near Hunter College and all the hoi polloi and college kids were out in the early morning rush.
I’d been on the surface with some morning business, the usual deal gone bad, and I was heading underground. The chill made me shiver. […]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
LIRR Disability Plot Thickens
If Walt Bogdanich and his crew don’t get a Pulitzer for their work on the dodgy LIRR employee claims, I’m donning full conductor gear–train belt buckle and all–and jumping into the Hudson in February.
The NY Times’ latest dive into the LIRR employee scam reveals that consultants actually extracted large sums from LIRR workers to coach […]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Putting More Pleasant in Mt. Pleasant
Mount Pleasant’s town hall, a charmless concrete edifice that looks like a minimum security prison, will come to life Wednesday night as the townsfolk argue for, among other things, a nicer train station in Hawthorne and more active downtowns in Hawthorne, Valhalla and–that third tenor of The Three Tenors–Thornwood.
“It is our goal to make a […]