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Super Staten Solar Stop Signs
New LED Flashing Stop Sign (with Solar Power Source)
September 7, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Demand Management
You get more of what you subsidize and less of what you tax. --Ancient Economic Adage
August 21, 2006
Photoshop-on-the-Street
Courtesy of Steve O'Neill, inventor of New York City's famous "No Horn Blowing Except for Anger" sign.
August 17, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Friday, August 4, 2006
Woman crossing at 43rd Street and Ninth Avenue. Video still by Clarence Eckerson
August 7, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Above the Cross Bronx ‘Expressway’
Saturday, July 29, 2006, at the Jesup Avenue bridge over the Cross Bronx "Expressway." I called 311 to get the city to tow that abandoned car away, but the operator needed an address or an intersection to locate this vehicle. An address would be a stretch, and the computer didn't accept "Jesup Avenue and the Cross Bronx 'Expressway'" as a known intersection.
August 1, 2006
We’re in Good Hands With Allstate
Above: A message from Allstate, the company that recently stopped renewing New York City home insurance policies due to the increasing risk of global warming-induced hurricanes. Spotted on Broadway near 9th Street.
July 28, 2006
Williamsburg Bike Parking Woes
A Streetsblog tipster writes in with a nice slice-of-life dispatch:
July 25, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Weekend Edition
I recently took this boat, a water taxi, from Red Hook to South Street Seaport. Landing at the Seaport after having just been in Red Hook about five minutes earlier gives one an odd supernatural sense of having been teleported.
July 21, 2006