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Meanwhile, in other news, horse carriages are still a going thing in NYC, though they are now the target of protesters making potential customers uncomfortableThe NYC mayor race of Nov 2013 was between DeBlasio and Joe Lhota... and the next will be 11 months from now, in Nov of 2017. Whether this will be a hot topic will soon be seen as I bet the politicians running for the m… Read More
a chain of events last night in NYC ended with ONLY loss of power stranding a subway. A gas leak near a power substation at 53rd St and 7th Ave sparked a basement fire, causing a power outage around 1030pm, about 1200 people were stuck in subway trains.They were evacutated, and the trains weren't back up and running normal until about 930am todayhttp://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/12/26/nyc-subway-delays/… Read More
one of the things that made the USA a cool place to be, was the firefighter team competitions... on Long Island they used to race cars as part of the championship... some far out hemi cars too, backwards Corvettes, etc. Crazy shit, I LOVE it!Back in 1965, ABC ran a television show called Wide World of Sports. On one of their shows they had a fireman's competition between different fire departments in the country. The competition involved putting five fireman on t… Read More
Yellow cabs are rapidly dying off in NYC, down 27% since 2010there are now about 3 times as many Uber, Lyft, and limo services as yellow cabs.Overall, there are more than 60,000 so-called "black cars"—NYC-speak for a for-hire vehicle that must be summoned by some sort of dispatcher or … Read More
In April of 1963, a devastating massive fire strained the NYC fire service to the absolute breaking point while destroying millions of $ of property, so they decided that WASN'T going to happen again, and developed the Mack Super Pumper systemThe truck, tender, and satellite units were all housed in a specially built station that was located to give them the best response time to downtown and points outside of the city. Here we see the pumper rig and tender leavin… Read More
