The MTA may be ready to raise MetroCard prices again and/or cut service (yet again!). Yesterday Bloomberg said Albany has "to come up with some ways to fund the MTA, or the MTA is either going to have to raise rates dramatically or cut back service dramatically—or, what's more likely, some combination of the two." Students have already begun protesting the end of free student MetroCards. Maybe the MTA will have to scrap some of those big construction projects such as the Second Avenue Subway (which Bloomberg doesn't like) and the Seventh Avenue Subway Extension (which Bloomberg is in favor of since it will assist in his development of the West Side of Manhattan). In the meantime, photographer Andrew Schwartz was invited to photograph what's going on under the ground for that Seventh Avenue line.
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Could an insult with less than 140 characters be enough to kill somebody? Social networking started the decade off right, with police speculating a recent murder escalated thanks to Twitter.
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Boldly going where no aging British synthpop band has gone before, Spandau Ballet has been hired by space tourism company Virgin Galactic to be its on-ship entertainment when the company begins launching customers into sub-orbit in 2012. Gadling reports that the band will entertain passengers aboard SpaceShip Two, the recently unveiled behemoth that is part of the company's two-stage system for sending tourists into the heavens.
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Are you a fan of Lou Reed’s eclectic and pioneering music? If so, you’re going to need the new Lou Zoom app on your iPhone. All you do is download this app and get ready to take a walk on the wild side when it makes the names and numbers on your contact list larger. That’s right; Lou Reed has the app equivalent of those table-sized TV controllers your grandparents love.
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AOL is blasting into the 21st Century, guns blazing, with a brand new logo! The yellow “running man” is turning 13 this year—about 60 years younger than the average AOL enthusiast. While they’re not completely retiring the old image, the company is making him take a back seat because users associate him with other out-dated Internet relics like dial-up connections and that horrid dial tone. Not known is if TMZ, another AOL creation, will hold back on publishing the photos of the running man’s drunken bender through downtown Los Angeles after finding out his job has been downsized.
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As a member of the famed downtown dance troupe The Dazzle Dancers, Cary Curran (aka Cherry Dazzle) spends much of her time celebrating the semi-nude human form in all its gyrating glory. It's not shocking, then, that Curran decided to make a photo of her pregnant body (decked out in little more than gold pasties, a thong bikini bottom and a liberal sprinkling of gold body glitter) her Facebook profile picture. The surprise came when Facebook shut down her account as a result.
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As if there weren't enough things to keep people glued to their iPhones instead of paying attention to real life. Now, New York City is encouraging programmers to mine raw data to come up with new ways for iPhone users to annoy their friends and seem like know-it-all assholes.
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