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NYCSR has been doing some great little “Street Films” to promote discussion of how we use our streets. Some of them are up on YouTube, and my favorite is this one simply documenting pedestrian traffic in Times Herald Square — it’s just priceless, particularly the people lined up to cross the Avenue as buses [...]

I saw this video on YouTube (via DailyKos) and was absolutely stunned, in a number of ways.
A politician talking intelligently to Americans about foreign policy! On TV! A TV show allowing him to! An audience that wants him to! A Democrat speaking readily about nonviolently exporting American values! Instead of [...]

This is cool — and not least because I’ve had a weakness for manatees since 4th grade: people have recently spotted a manatee in the Hudson River near Manhattan. via Gothamist Now that’s an explorer! Maybe it’s trying to map the east coast for greater manateedom?

OK, granted, I’m not a big social person. I don’t have a huge group of friends to go out with, so if I want to go out dancing, it’s just going to be me and Alex, or just me. I don’t do well with superficiality; I don’t like going to clubs just for [...]