This weekend New York City was host to the East Side Polo Invite. Teams from the United States and Canada faced off in Sara D. Roosevelt park this Saturday and Sunday. Other events included an alleycat race and a bike prom. New York City bike polo received press in a recent Times article. More photos after the break.
A 400 million year old rock emerges from Vanderbilt Avenue in Fort Greene one week before Halloween. What can a 10 ton, 7 foot tall piece of rock dress up as for some trick or treat action?
In New York City, space is too scarce and expensive to keep a secret. However, in other parts of the country, homeowners are living their childhood fantasies with revolving fireplaces, hidden doors, and secret lairs.
First, before you start renovating, you better have something worth hiding. Home offices, and “non-descript rooms” do not really warrant the protection. Bat caves and drug labs do. Second, it is important to keep a secret room a secret. Don’t talk about it to anyone. If you’re only hiding the accoutrements of your boring life, you shouldn’t worry about snitches, just the $2000 you wasted on a very expensive swinging bookshelf. If you’ve got a high tech cave full of marijuana, you probably shouldn’t be giving statements to the New York Times.
In yesterday’s Times, Dan Barry took a look at the Segways, or rather the “pogo stick on wheels.” We always thought Segways were for rich, white men and while that was confirmed it seems they’re for the lazy and delusional too.
Itsi Atkins, the founder of the New York City Segway Club, estimates New York City has “only 50 or so Segways, and maybe 30 owners,” of which, “he owns five.” Is New York City slow to join the revolution because some owners are inexplicably hoarding $25,000 of Segways? No, they’re just completely unnecessary, absurdly expensive, impossible for users to repair, and prone to tossing their users off the back. In the end, image conscious New Yorkers are not going to shell out $5,000 to look like a fool.
Though some say it’s a dead rat, the only good rat is a Rate rat. Despite general improvements, City Comptroller William Thompson says that the Department of Health still takes an average of 30 days to investigate a rat complaint at which point you will have a Splinter sized rat posted up outside your fridge.
Photograph from Untitledname.com.
