WTF....????.

http://www.observer.com/2012/03/meet-me-.... towers/#slide2 ...........Basically the inside bldg space is privately owned & is in place (as long as the bldg is open)....people who regularly frequent the area walk through this area which is fine & no cost to NYC.....HOWEVER ....along comes b'bag & his bicycle riding dooshy DOT Commissioner who now want to add signs ...curb cuts...speed bumps ...crosswalk painting....stop signs & or lights mid block on this strip between 51 St & 57 St. which will cost the city $$$$$ to install & maintain ....all this while the City does not have $ for the 5th FF etc ......also the mid block stop signs & or lights will further stifle cross town Emergency response.......do we need this waste of $$$$$$$ ....i dont....i can walk outside & cross at the corner..............THE STORY....An Old Secret May Soon Be A New Manhattan "Half Avenue"

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A section of what could be "6 1/2 Avenue." It isn't exactly pretty to look at, but there are worse places to nap (Observer).

Thanks to the Department of Transportation, Midtown Manhattan is about to get a new pedestrian thoroughfare. Well, an old one rebranded. So, before you get out your pitchforks and start burning effigies of Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn, take a deep breath. The path, which the Observer dubs "6 1/2 Avenue", has long been known to the district's denizens. All the DOT wants to do is make it easier to find and walk.

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An early mock-up of the strip. What the DOT wants to work with is just the line running north to south, like this.
If all goes according to plan, soon enough the already existing mid-block paths between 51st and 57th Streets between Sixth and Seventh Avenues will be connected and emphasized via better signage, curb cuts and possibly some stop signs or lights. The Friends of Privately Owned Public Space, which has been instrumental in getting the DOT's attention, has already dubbed the strip Holly Whyte Way, after the urban planner.

Of course, many Midtown workers are already well aware of the walkways (they really do make getting around easier) and probably aren't going to love them getting more attention, but what can you do? The New Yorker has been blowing up "secret" pathways like this for years.

Interestingly, the alley-like pathway actually connects to the issues facing the Occupy protestors at Zuccotti Park. The strips of land being discussed here are all Privately-Owned Public Spaces (POPS), just like Zuccotti, that were created as part of deals that allowed developers to build extra-tall in dense areas. What this plan tries to do is just bring them all together in a coherent manner (clever planners way back when already assured that most of them line up nicely). And it looks like it could happen! According to Commissioner Sadik-Khan, the city had conferred with every building owner and, she said, "the response has been good to neutral."

The only concern we have with the plan? Making sure that all of the buildings involved in the 6 1/2 Avenue strip start keeping the same hours. Getting cockblocked by a closed gate on 54th Street would be very frustrating.
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TSA: Man Caught Trying To Conceal Knife Inside Jar Of Mayo At JFK Airport
April 3, 2012 5:10 PM


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) ? The Transportation Security Administration said security screeners at John F. Kennedy Airport caught a man trying to sneak a knife onto a flight by putting it in a full jar of mayonnaise.

TSA Spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said screeners stopped the man Tuesday before he headed on a trip to Mexico City.

Farbstein told 1010 WINS a TSA officer at the airport came upon the discovery when carry-on luggage was being screened.


?One of the TSA officers spotted something very unusual and when they did a closer inspection, it turned out that somebody had pushed his leatherman knife into a full container of mayonnaise,? she said.

The hiding spot may not have been the brightest idea, considering TSA rules require liquids and gels, even mayo, to be in a 3.4-ounce or smaller container.

?The mayonnaise jar was larger than that, so ironically he was trying to smuggle a prohibited item inside of another prohibited item,? Farbstein said.

The knife was taken from the man, who was not arrested. He was permitted to fly to his destination.
............HOT SHIT...2 PROHIBITED ITEMS & THEY STILL LET HIM FLY ?
 
Taco Bell Shooting Victim Was Holding Leash, Not Weapon

Fox Phoenix, April 4, 2012

Police are saying more about a shooting at a Taco Bell Tuesday night in which one man died.

They?re also identifying the victim as 29-year-old Daniel Adkins.

About 7:30 p.m., a 22-year-old man and his girlfriend ordered food at the Taco Bell drive-thru and were told to pull up while their order was prepared.

At the same time, Adkins stepped around a corner into the path of the vehicle and angry words were exchanged between he and the driver.

They got into an altercation and Adkins was shot once by the driver. He died at the scene.

The driver, a 22-year-old black male, called police but has not been arrested.

At first, the couple claimed that Adkins had a metal pipe that he swung at them?but it turns out he was holding a dog leash with his yellow lab on the other end.

Family members want that driver arrested, but he?s claiming self-defense.

A metal pipe or bat was never located. An independent witness did say Adkins swung his fists in the driver?s direction.

The dog, Lady, stayed by Adkins? side until the Humane Society came. Adkins lived with his mom and dad. He?s 29, but his family says he?s mentally disabled and has the mental capacity of a 12-year-old. ..........WHAT A  SHAME...WHAT A CRIME.
 
You can go to Vegas and bet: The 22 year old driver will not be arrested, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will not be there. OK to be the deliver but not the receiptant. I seems b vs w is ok, but w vs b get the Justice Dept. Just my own opinion!!! We are just fu#^ed!!!!!
 
One more thing, this is why we love our dogs. Lady does not understand the stupidity, she just wants her owner, not master, her owner. I have two dogs, Austin, a Golden Retreiver and Bear (?). 4:30 AM we get a nudge from them, even when we change clocks!! Weather in Chicago is nice, will put them out to run. Love thim to death!!!
 
There are a lot more restaurants than cranes. More money to be made handing out summons to the eateries. It's not about safety or protecting the citizens but in picking their pockets.
 
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cruisers_getting_nypd_clues_kdzeJutSWjrD3HcLcC2AoL#ixzz1re6MDj7B                                                                                                                                                                              ......But wait we already started changing our FIRE stickers to FDNY as they go through the shops .....well i guess b'bag has his hand in a sticker business on the side also.
 
Former TSA Chief Says We Should Allow Knives, Lighters And Liquids On Airplanes
Gus Lubin|April 14, 2012|
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Kip Hawley, the TSA director from 2005 to 2009, has an explosive editorial in the WSJ (and a book on the same subject coming soon).

Here's the nut:

More than a decade after 9/11, it is a national embarrassment that our airport security system remains so hopelessly bureaucratic and disconnected from the people whom it is meant to protect.

Hawley proposes dramatic reforms including lifting the ban on knives, lighters and liquids.

Knives won't be effective in taking down a plane anymore now that cockpit doors are reinforced and air marshals, flight crew and passengers know how to react. Lighters are far from the only way to set off an explosive. And we can scan for dangerous liquids with a minor technological upgrade.

Instead Hawley says the TSA should be given more discretion and incentive to identify major threats.

Read the whole thing at the WSJ >


Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-14/news/31338198_1_lighters-tsa-director-kip-hawley#ixzz1s7eYLKRU

Probably the reason he is the FORMER chief.
 
Mother shot dead, newborn taken near Houston Published April 17, 2012 Associated Press SPRING, Texas ?  A newborn boy was abducted from his screaming mother after she was repeatedly shot outside a suburban Houston pediatric center on Tuesday, according to investigators searching for the suspected shooter who sped off with the infant in a blood-stained Lexus. Montgomery County sheriff's officials said the mother, 28-year-old Kayla Marie Golden, was killed. Golden was walking to her pickup truck after a checkup with her 3-day-old son, Keegan, when she had a verbal altercation with a woman in a Lexus parked next to her, sheriff's Lt. Dan Norris said. Witnesses said the woman repeatedly shot Golden, took her infant and sped away, hitting the dying mother as she screamed "my baby" and tried to reach into the Lexus, Norris said. They reported hearing as many as seven gunshots and said a man also was in the Lexus, which is blood-stained on the driver's side, Norris said. The infant was wearing a green-and-white one-piece outfit displaying the word "handsome." The shooting happened just after 2 p.m. outside the Northwoods Pediatric Center in Spring, which is about 20 miles north of Houston. A statewide emergency alert has been issued for the baby. Witnesses described the shooting suspect as a thin, gold-haired black woman, apparently in her late 20s or early 30s, Norris said. They also said the Lexus was sky blue or light green. Joshua Jesson said he was in the clinic with his girlfriend when he heard gunshots. He said he saw the Lexus next to the pickup truck, then later looked back and saw the car was gone and a woman lying in the spot where the Lexus had been parked. "I thought she just passed out. Then somebody ran in here and said, 'Somebody got shot,'" he said. Police surrounded the clinic and part of the parking lot with crime-scene tape. The clinic is in an area thick with strip malls. Golden's red truck sat next to yellow markers where spent ammunition cartridges and other evidence was.
......WHERE IS SHARPIE & CO ON THIS ?
 
You are accused of being a child molester. Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran, Prosterant, you violate a child general population is where you go. Like to deliver, hope you like to receive, and this sure as hell aint Xmas. And anyone, anyone who abuses a dog or a cat, well at least you won't be in  jail with a CM. Even in jail there is a pecking order, pets are so foregiving and so dedicated. We have 2 best friends, so loyal and protective. What did they do to you, they ask  nothing more than compainship, a hug, a toy, and a belly rub.They are our best buddies, Bear and Austin. Like sitting out in the yard while they exercise, running. And by the way airport security is a joke. I did 2 tours in Vietnam, my son did 2 tours in Iraq, I could deliver a nuclear weapon through package delivery at.
 
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