Out of state car (Georgia) with expired tags could not get towed or ticketed at Cooper Avenue
The car owner just does not care where he parks knowing NYPD could not do much about it.
Danniel
Republican candidate for Governor Lee Zeldin is to repeal cashless bail reform in his press conference.
It must go further. The entire set of laws must be repealed!
Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School would not fix a broken gate.
The main entrance and exit is on 91-30 Metropolitan Ave. It has a back exit into 70 Road and the GallopNYC horse stable. Teachers park on the street at the back door. Students enter and exit since it is closer walking to the school building. There is no guard or supervision at this location. Neighbors … Read more
Bus lane not used by buses is penalizing Crossbay Boulevard merchants! It needs to be removed!
The southbound bus lane painted 3 years ago starting mid-block between 107 and Sutter Avenues until Gold Street are not being used by buses. The signs say no parking anytime Monday through Friday 7 am until 10 am, then again from 4 pm until 7 pm. 2 hour meter parking is permitted between 10 am … Read more
Who’s on first? Jackie Robinson (April 15, 1947); Moses Fleetwood Walker (May 1, 1884)
At age 28, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. On May 1, 1884, Moses Fleetwood Walker, 26, debuted in a Major League Baseball game with the Toledo Blue Stockings as a barehanded catcher.
Dept of Education budget was $11.5B or $10.4k per student in 2000/1; now $31B or $34.9k for each kid. What’s wrong with this number?
120,000 students left the DoE public school system over the last 5 years while enrollment at public charter schools is up 9%. Students In 2021-22, there were 1,058,888 students in the NYC school system, the largest school district in the United States. Of those students: 13.9 percent of students were English Language Learners 20.6 percent … Read more
MTA hiring hundreds to clean cars. Why not just open the restrooms at 76 stations?
Subway restrooms have shuttered since mid 2020. Where do people go if they have to go? What is MTA’s solution? Hire more cleaners.
12.5% of the entire African-American population according to the 1860 census were “free”.
Most people assume that every black American who lived in the US before 1870 was a slave. That is simply not true thanks to Dennis Richmond, Jr. who researched his family history. In 1860, three years before the Emancipation Proclamation, The United States Federal Census Schedule reported 488,070 free black Americans. True, many might say quasi-free, since these African Americans … Read more
Gas Price at Rego Park on July 15, 2022
Gas Sale station at 68-29 Woodhaven Blvd. Normally, the lowest priced station in the area.
At 9.06% in June 2022, inflation is at its highest since November 1981. You need to be older than 40 to remember those days. I do.
How to control inflation? (1) watch the price of crude oil/energy; (2) cut down criminal theft and property damages; and (3) reduce government’s need for more money from honest taxpayers. CPI June 2020.