Fine, but do they have restrooms?
I don't normally have a reason to take the NYC Ferries, but wish I did. The two or three trips I've made -- one down to Rockaway after New York Today recommended it -- have been delightful.
If you have a chance, take a ride while the weather is still warm. It's only $2.75 and it's fun to be reconnected to New York as a city of islands.
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“And as with the other five ferry lines, this one has battery-charging stations and concession stands. (Wi-Fi is on its way, too.)”
Tune of “One’s In the Way” (Loretta Lynn hit record of Shel Silverstein’s classic)
I notice Andrew Cuomo can spin with aplomb and cred
That he and Cynthia Nixon will go at it head to head
And I read here that her running mate thinks I should not be wed
But here on the ferry, the ride’s feeling steady
The water was calm though I thought I saw an eddy.
The coffee is great
And though the Wi-Fi’s not ready
Well, that’s on the way.
I see it may feel sweltering, a hundred-one degrees.
And in Times Square, I read the tourists stop and gawk at bees.
But tourists must be scarce, they claim foot traffic is a breeze.
But here on the ferry, the White House gets light dissing
Two lovers in a corner are innocently kissing.
The charging station works
And though the Wi-Fi might be missing
Yes, that’s on the way.
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Sabrett? Those bees obviously don't answer to a Higher Authority.
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“New York City feels pretty empty in August.”
It’s an annual thing, isn’t it?
The “Theme from New York New York” for the last week in August.
Stop spreading the word, life’s perfect today
I love to be alone in it - New York, New York.
That touristy herd, it’s drifted away
It feels like I am ownin’ it - my own New York
I’m gonna step up
To that discount booth for some fun.
Find a cheap seat on the aisle - A number 1
My passions are stirred, it’s some great cliché
There’s breathing room to check my phone in it - my own New York
If I can stay right here, while all the streets are clear
Best time of year
Here
In New York.
New York.
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THE BEE-ALL
Even more than a college degree
Can ever start to tell,
The considered state of your education's
Revealed by how well you spell.
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Bees swarming a hot dog cart in Times Square? ... they've got to bee (sorry) New Yorkers!
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@N. Smith - That's the buzz on the street.
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In 1948, a group of liberals from Wisconsin tried to persuade Orson Welles (born in Kenosha, Wisconsin) to run for the Senate in the Democratic primary. Though he had campaigned all over the country for FDR in 1944, Welles dismissed the idea, telling them that nobody would ever vote for an actor.
Years later, he regretted his decision. Had he won, his Republican opponent in November would have been an obscure judge named Joseph McCarthy.
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The general election is only a short time away. Isn't it time for the New York Times to expand it's political coverage beyond the Democratic primary, and start doing some reporting on the Republican candidates, such as Marc Molinaro.
What is his background. Where does he stand on issues? Other papers have reported that pro-Cuomo ads have been filled with lies about Molinaro. What does the Times have to report about that?
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All well and good to be able to "act" in debates, but if you still don't understand basic facts of government, law, policy, and perhaps most importantly, your own proposals, all the stage skills in the world won't help you!
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Trump has “creative ideas for pressing issues”? Like what?
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@Mary
Haven’t you seen those big, beautiful samples for the border wall?
I would certainly call that a creative step towards a demilitarized zone...
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"...the actress-turned-politician..." Perhaps a minor quibble, but having seen this sort of comment before, I would argue that "actress-turned-candidate" is more apt - one cannot be called a politician until one has held office.
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@George S Actually, no. A candidate is a politician.
If Ms. Nixon is going to focus on a room's temperature, calling it a feminist issue, and not the condition of upstate New York's cities, or on LGBT issues and not the complexities of this enormous state of ours, which includes those LGBT issues, then she will not win, and I will certainly be glad.
She puts herself into the company of Bill de Blasio, Bernie Sanders, Jumaane Williams, and other so-called progressives, more concerned about their pocketbooks or their power and very little interested in the hard-working New Yorkers who keep the city running.
Beware that their policies do not create a tale of two cities worse than what we have now.
Right now, poor and middle-class parents who have inculcated in their children a respect for education and perseverance still have schools to send their kids to. When de Blasio's school policies go into effect, anyone who can will move out of the city -- as they did in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Let's repeat: The vast majority of students whose parents are from Asia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, India, and elsewhere are very poor but convinced that education is the key to everything. And they are correct. That's why their children, who form study groups and have the capacity to focus on a goal, pass rigorous tests and get into schools like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science.
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@ B. Last time I checked, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and India all are in Asia.
Maybe it’s time you went back to school?
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@B. Women have the option of wearing skirts in warm rooms, men do not (yet). That is what is sexist about it.
@Grittenhouse. Actually, there is no law preventing Mr. Cuomo from wearing a skirt to the debate, so it is, in fact, an option for him — and one many people would be delighted to see him take.
If only people such as you would not judge the proverbial book by the cover, and if all of us, and the candidates themselves and their staff could demonstrate the list art of cooperation and compromise — so sadly and increasingly missing from our political institutions, those who run them, and among voters ourselves.
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A comment on the photographs accompanying the article: It is so interesting, for once at least, to see a exterior transformation of a celebrity from glamorous and chic to more humble and plain, all through makeup (or not) and clothing choice.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t comment on a politician’s looks, but when, like trump, someone already has entertainment industry (especially acting) fame, I think it is fair game.
If one compres the pictures here with pictures from just months ago, one sees a somewhat dramatically different looking person in Ms, Nixon. She appears less polished, older and a little less happy-go-lucky. Even her nose looks less trim and sleek. Her face and, with the choice of that particular red, white, and blue outfit, with blazer buttoned just so, her body, like her face without certain contour makeup, looks a lot rounder and fuller and more ordinary — which, I think, must be the goal.
Agree or not with Nixon’s (or the ever-more aryan-looking trump’s) policies and perspectives; but notice how they both seem particularly at easy with manipulating public perception of who they are through the use of cosmetic products, hair dyes (or wigs), and fashion — more so, it seems to me than the non-entertainment industry candidates.
I say this without a lot of judgement, but more curiously and reflection on the power of cosmetics and clothing to shape
and shift, not just reflect, political change and political allegiances of the public at some of the highest levels.
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“The best defense...is detecting weakness and trying to spin that narrative as early as possible.”
Indubitably. I wish the best of luck to Ms. Nixon in her attempt to outperform a seasoned incumbent, who happens to hold a Juris Doctor.
Law degrees are costly for more reasons than just earning potential. Debating even a moderately skilled attorney is a headache waiting to happen.
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@ubique- "Law degrees are costly"
They're super-costly now. But Gov. Cuomo graduated law school in 1982. In 1980-83, tuition at even one of the Top 3 rated schools in those three years was $5,000, then $5,900, then $6,700. Books each year if you went to the very convenient used law book shop could cost as little as $200 to $300 a year, even if you were picky and wanted new, tops $800 or $900. (And if you shopped carefully, you could even find handwritten notes from someone who might have actually had your very professor the term before. This was priceless for me in Prof. Ginsburg's antitrust class. I knew his every class question in advance from the first owner's margin notes.)
After graduation: Bar exam intensive review course, essential to understand nuances of New York law if your law school was outside NY, was a few hundred, plus the cost of seeing movies between sessions on those three-hour breaks on two-session days.
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@Freddie
Cole Porter too was a lawyer--almost. The dean of Harvard Law School advised him to switch to music.
The rest is mastery.
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@Freddie
I just went on the BARBRI (a major bar exam review provider) site. The prep course now appears to be $2,700.
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Tennis tournament should have a rule when it comes to weather conditions, yesterday was a dangerous day to let players on the court, looks like today will be the same , are we waiting for a fatal accident ?
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Jerry Springer was a mayor well before his career as a talk show host. In between his tenor as mayor (which ended in a scandal over paying for a prostitute with a check), he was the local news anchor for NBC in Cincinnati for many years. But, his political career preceded his television career, not the other way around. Facts are important.
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The article seems to imply that before Jerry Springer became mayor of Cincinnati his sole vocation was being an actor (or at least an entertainer of sorts). Not true. Just the opposite. Long before Springer started his silly show in 1991, he was very much a politician. In the early 1970s, he was a member of the city council (re-elected after a scandal) and became mayor in 1977. In 1982 he ran for governor of Ohio in the Democratic Primary. It was after he lost, that his "entertainment" career followed.
I say all of this not because I am a fan of Springer's show. But when Springer was a politician in the 1970s and 80s, he was a progressive. He was not afraid of advocating for such things as universal health care, progressive taxation and drug policy reform in conservative Cincinnati.
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