New York City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "New York City, officially the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States and the most densely populated major city in North America. Located in the state of New York, New York City has a population of over 8.1 million within an area of 321 square miles (approximately 830 kmē). ..."
Birthplace of
Woody Allen, Allen Stewart Konigsberg, in Brooklyn, on 1 Dec 1935
New York Politics '93, by Murray N. Rothbard, The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, Aug 1993 Discusses the potential outcome of the 1993 New York City Mayoral race between David Dinkins and Rudolph Giuliani, plus a cast of others "New York is of course a famously left-wing city ... But while the city may be overwhelmingly leftist and Democratic, a complicating factor is race. New York has always been a hotbed of ethnic and racial conflict, but in the days of the old-time political bosses, the guys in the smoke-filled rooms could come out with electoral tickets that were carefully racially and ethnically balanced."
The Disastrous World of the New York Subway, Part 1, by Gregory Bresiger, Freedom Daily, Feb 2006 "This reminds me of a ... trip a few months ago. At Jackson Heights, the train, which was supposed to be an express but had been going local, suddenly stopped for a public debate that didn't amuse weary riders coming home from work: the conductor and the motorman had started arguing over the public address system."
The Disastrous World of the New York Subway, Part 2, by Gregory Bresiger, Freedom Daily, Mar 2006 "So, depending on how you measure it, the Second Avenue subway is either 50 or 60 years behind schedule. And a month or so ago, voters approved a new $2.9 billion bond referendum to build — you guessed it! — the Second Avenue subway. Yet the Second Avenue subway is today no closer to a reality than, say, the MTA is to cutting subway fares ..."
The Disastrous World of the New York Subway, Part 3, by Gregory Bresiger, Freedom Daily, Apr 2006 "New York City's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, like so many other politicians before him, is angry with the transit workers' union. He's safe. He doesn't have to ride the subways. He can always blame government authorities or someone else for the dreadful state of the trains. It's a common strategy whenever things go wrong in government."
