thetechpete: Big machine for tunnels. Looks CGed to me. I think I’ve watched to many movies when real looks fake to me. http://tumblr.com/xpfh9cthi

neighborhoodr-upperwestside:

Barnes & Noble Closing Lincoln Center Store

paulkatcher:

Just as we learn that Trader Joe’s on West 72 Street has an official opening date of Sept. 20, we receive the bad news that the Barnes & Noble megastore at 66th and Broadway will be closing due to high rents.

There’s something about a trip to a huge bookstore that always leaves me inspired to learn and do. Knowledge is power, and that store was a multi-floor power vault. (With your occasional “Confessions of an Heiress” by Paris Hilton thrown in.)

So, yeah, this is sadder than, say, losing a Foot Locker.

Thankfully, B&N says it will continue to seek an alternate space on the UWS.

And now we can start the pool on how long the Lincoln Triangle space will go unoccupied.

Maybe we’ll get lucky and an NYPL will open there!

Which reminds me, there is always the library—why don’t they open a coffee shop??  That would totally bring in the parishioners!

Here’s a search-engine-friendly version:

…AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING…

THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION HAS ISSUED AN AIR QUALITY HEALTH ADVISORY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES…

SUFFOLK…NASSAU…RICHMOND…KINGS…QUEENS…NEW YORK…BRONX…WESCHESTER AND ROCKLAND.

IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

AIR QUALITY LEVELS IN OUTDOOR AIR ARE PREDICTED TO BE GREATER THAN AN AIR QUALITY INDEX VALUE OF 100 FOR THE POLLUTANT OF GROUND LEVEL OZONE. THE AIR QUALITY INDEX…OR AQI…WAS CREATED AS AN EASY WAY TO CORRELATE LEVELS OF DIFFERENT POLLUTANTS TO ONE SCALE. THE HIGHER THE AQI VALUE, THE GREATER THE HEALTH CONCERN.

WHEN POLLUTION LEVELS ARE ELEVATED…THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH RECOMMENDS THAT INDIVIDUALS CONSIDER LIMITING STRENUOUS OUTDOOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS. PEOPLE WHO MAY BE ESPECIALLY SENSITIVE TO THE EFFECTS OF ELEVATED LEVELS OF POLLUTANTS INCLUDE THE VERY YOUNG, AND THOSE WITH PRE-EXISTING RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS SUCH AS ASTHMA OR HEART DISEASE. THOSE WITH SYMPTOMS SHOULD CONSIDER CONSULTING THEIR PERSONAL PHYSICIAN.

A TOLL FREE AIR QUALITY HOTLINE HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED SO NEW YORK RESIDENTS CAN STAY INFORMED ON THE AIR QUALITY SITUATION. THE TOLL FREE NUMBER IS: 1 800 5 3 5, 1 3 4 5.

WHY ARE YOU YELLING!?!?!

Seriously, the National Weather Service isn’t sending out it warnings via telegram and telegraph still, are they?  Use your indoor voice, guys!

Also: great job in formatting your 800 number—you clearly want people to know that number exists, you just don’t want people to know what it is.  Or maybe you want people to think they have to call Europe. :\

On a much more serious note: WHY IS OZONE BAD NOW?  I guess it’s a case of too much of anything good is bad.  What a shame, since we managed to plug that ozone hole. 

Also: WHY IS THE AIR IN NYC BAD SOMETIMES? I left Los Angeles two years ago!

Sigh… ah well. At least the walk I took with @siskita was just to the Starbucks on 181st.  Even a return trip won’t kill us, will it?

officialssay:

“By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor… It’s providing us with more recruits, donations, and popular support.”

—

Taliban operative Zabihullah, on how the mosque controversy is benefiting the Taliban. 

If we respect people’s freedom (even their freedom to be insensitive to people’s feelings about 911) the terrorists DON’T win. Why do you anti-mosque-types not get this? Maybe you just WANT to hate? That could be…

website666: underpaidgenius: Contrast this with fighter aircraft taking more than twice that amount of time to reach any… http://tumblr.com/x07gvg72i