Earthquake 2011: All-Important Local Angles

Queens Self-Centeredness: “Earthquake strikes Queens”.

Brooklyn Insecurity: “Earthquake: Brooklyn Probably Shook More Than Manhattan”.

Staten Island Remaining Relevant: “45 seconds of panic as quake’s tremors reach Staten Island”.

These People Pay For Our City Services; Quit Cursing At Them!

If Bloomberg had any balls at all, he’d leave the Brooklyn Bridge to the tourists and picture takers because maybe there are places bicyclists shouldn’t have priority:

An all-out turf war has erupted between speeding cyclists and picture-snapping pedestrians over a narrow pathway that’s too close for anything but a collision.

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“What the f- -k are you doing? There are bikes on the bridge!” yelled the BMX-riding cyclist before speeding off.

That is, unless you want to start ticketing tourists for not walking inside the white lines . . . then again, that would also raise money for the city.

Location Scout: Brooklyn Bridge.

Party Like It’s 1897, Bitches!

Oh my god, they’re actually baking their own bread:

Brooklyn, fiercely proud of its independence from Manhattan, is an expanding frontier for the Do It Yourself movement — resourceful residents are baking bread, raising chickens for eggs, keeping bees for honey or simply renovating brownstones themselves.

Public Fatigue At All-Time High When It Comes To Thinking About Bike Lanes

Which means The Brooklyn Paper will do what it can to generate clicks and manufacture controversy:

A bike lane currently exists on Greenpoint Avenue, but ends just short of the bridge to Queens, a northern suburb of Brooklyn.

Didn’t We Think That We Are What We Thought We Were?

Or maybe New York City is not as wonderful as everyone there believes it is:

For many New Yorkers, what seems to be at stake is nothing less than the city’s supersize reputation. In a place that likes to dream big, an increase of about 167,000 people over 10 years feels anemic and, to some, embarrassing.

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Still, there are signs that after growing by 9 percent from 1990 to 2000, New York’s population boom might have begun to ease.

To that last point, we’re still waiting . . .

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