NOOO I use HopStop for everything! I use it in D.C. too, where it's especially helpful. Super bummed about this. :-/
Much appreciated your documenting Michael Ford's deep grief (this horrible situation expressed by me in a clinical style), as well the apparent joy of Lili Trenkova and Raffaella Ciavatta. The photographs are superb and touching. Thanks for helping end my Argentine week thoughtfully. *I had been without internet until after noon EST. -c.
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"HopStop was no longer the best transportation app available. That title belongs to Citymapper,"
I had never used it. So I checked out what it had to visit my mom in NJ. Instead of Google's 10 minute walk to the nearest subway, it has me walk 6 minutes in the opposite direction. Wait a couple minutes for a bus, then 7 minutes on the bus, then 3 minutes walk to the subway. Yes, for all that I am one short stop closer to Penn Station.
I tried the bicycle. I have done this. I know the most efficient is to bike to the WTC and take Path to Newark. Then bike out Springfield Ave. It has me biking up to the George Washington Bridge and then back down.
The app comes across as not very intelligent. I'll stick to Google Maps.
I had never used it. So I checked out what it had to visit my mom in NJ. Instead of Google's 10 minute walk to the nearest subway, it has me walk 6 minutes in the opposite direction. Wait a couple minutes for a bus, then 7 minutes on the bus, then 3 minutes walk to the subway. Yes, for all that I am one short stop closer to Penn Station.
I tried the bicycle. I have done this. I know the most efficient is to bike to the WTC and take Path to Newark. Then bike out Springfield Ave. It has me biking up to the George Washington Bridge and then back down.
The app comes across as not very intelligent. I'll stick to Google Maps.
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As the spouse of a K-9 officer I appreciated the incredible amount of time these officers spend with their buddies.
They weren’t “pets” but working dogs. As with all such dogs including service dogs you have to train them to ignore their natural instincts. You can’t have a working dog taking off after a squirrel when it should be searching Central Park for an explosive device! We taught them to eat ONLY from a certain bowl...nothing thrown on the ground. Otherwise criminals could toss a T-bone steak down to throw off a K-9. Yeah it was bad news if anything happened to that bowl! And these pups are all neutered too.
The trust that each dog had for its handler was amazing. Go over a 10 foot wooden fence. Walk a 12 foot 6 inch wide plank between ladders. Still keep going if injured. The military has videos of Belgian Malinois being struck by bullets in their chest and STILL charging the enemy. It was a Malinois that parachuted (!) out of the helicopter with SEAL Team 6 that landed hard in the yard of the Osama Bin Laden compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan. Malinois are some of the dogs that protect the White House.
These are amazing animals with incredible training. Probably our most athletic and dedicated police officers and military personnel.
They weren’t “pets” but working dogs. As with all such dogs including service dogs you have to train them to ignore their natural instincts. You can’t have a working dog taking off after a squirrel when it should be searching Central Park for an explosive device! We taught them to eat ONLY from a certain bowl...nothing thrown on the ground. Otherwise criminals could toss a T-bone steak down to throw off a K-9. Yeah it was bad news if anything happened to that bowl! And these pups are all neutered too.
The trust that each dog had for its handler was amazing. Go over a 10 foot wooden fence. Walk a 12 foot 6 inch wide plank between ladders. Still keep going if injured. The military has videos of Belgian Malinois being struck by bullets in their chest and STILL charging the enemy. It was a Malinois that parachuted (!) out of the helicopter with SEAL Team 6 that landed hard in the yard of the Osama Bin Laden compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan. Malinois are some of the dogs that protect the White House.
These are amazing animals with incredible training. Probably our most athletic and dedicated police officers and military personnel.
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Let's hope that none of the "graduates" in the K-9 Force die the horrible, inexcusable deaths that more than a dozen dogs suffered this summer as they were locked in police cars in the heat. http://www.weather.com/safety/heat/news/police-dog-deaths-hot-car
Dogs cannot consent to being put in the line of fire. They cannot consent to the human-made dangers and disasters to which they're exposed by their owners/captors. As it is, the particular kind of slavery imposed on these wonderful, loving, loyal creatures is tragedy enough. To have them killed by the neglect of their so-called human "partners" is criminal. Which of those "partners" who killed their dog this summer would have left a human "partner" in a locked car, the temperatures of which could reach 120°?
Dogs cannot consent to being put in the line of fire. They cannot consent to the human-made dangers and disasters to which they're exposed by their owners/captors. As it is, the particular kind of slavery imposed on these wonderful, loving, loyal creatures is tragedy enough. To have them killed by the neglect of their so-called human "partners" is criminal. Which of those "partners" who killed their dog this summer would have left a human "partner" in a locked car, the temperatures of which could reach 120°?
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“when the A and the C are rerouted to the F”
Once your subway app gets comfortable, it doesn’t realize that it could be replaced in a minute
Tune of "Irreplaceable (To the Left)”
To the F, to the F, to the F, to the F, to the F, to the F
Every train you know has been switched to the F
Standing in the station, you tell me, as if it’s really true
Telling me, I'll never ever find an app like you
You got me frazzled
You must not get on the 3, you must not get on the 3
There’ll be another 2 in a minute
Check my app, it’ll be here in a minute, baby
You must not get on the E, you must not get on the E
You won’t get home until tomorrow
So I say HopStop, though I say goodbye with sorrow
You are replaceable
(repeat)
To the F, to the F
Once your subway app gets comfortable, it doesn’t realize that it could be replaced in a minute
Tune of "Irreplaceable (To the Left)”
To the F, to the F, to the F, to the F, to the F, to the F
Every train you know has been switched to the F
Standing in the station, you tell me, as if it’s really true
Telling me, I'll never ever find an app like you
You got me frazzled
You must not get on the 3, you must not get on the 3
There’ll be another 2 in a minute
Check my app, it’ll be here in a minute, baby
You must not get on the E, you must not get on the E
You won’t get home until tomorrow
So I say HopStop, though I say goodbye with sorrow
You are replaceable
(repeat)
To the F, to the F
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Your songs make me laugh every morning. (I don't think I will ever hear Jolene again without thinking about Joaquin!).
Keep them coming.
Keep them coming.
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Thanks so much, Susie!
(And as always to the Times for being so flexible in allowing readers to make all types of comments.)
(And as always to the Times for being so flexible in allowing readers to make all types of comments.)
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Hah! Good one! Now I have that stuck in my head!
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Eva Moskowitz didn't have much of a chance of winning anyway. If she did win, she would make the whole DOE in favor of the charter schools while snubbing the public schools. Fortunately, it would have been most likely that many see through the way she runs her schools and wouldn't be likely to vote for her. Then again, why would she want to be a politician like a mayor when she makes a lot more as a hedge fund manager?
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Which is fine. Let her keep her privacy and her money as opposed to politicians such as the former mayor who wanted both at the same time.
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"The de Blasio administration will spend $1 million on ads intended to promote the rent freeze" A waste of $. How about using the $1 for the residents still in need due to the fact the Build it Back Program is NOT building anything back? How about taking that $1 million and putting it towards repairs on HPD building? How about that $1 million go to transit issues? Or, take the $1 million to fix some potholes.