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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005If I’m a rank-and-file member of the local Transit Workers Union, I’m not too pleased with my leaders right about now. The holiday traffic messes and devastating economic impact generated by the strike have caused a public backlash, not to mention court imposed $1 million-per-day fines for the Union and possible jail time and fines [...]
Strike!
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005Working from home this morning because our friends at the MTA are on strike. No subways or buses, combined with Mayor Bloomberg’s genius solution of limiting all cars in lower Manhattan to a minimum of FOUR passengers before 11 am, means no way of getting to the office. Seven million commuters are feeling the pinch, [...]
New York without a subway
Thursday, December 15th, 2005… is like L.A. without a freeway or an airport without a runway. Yet it might happen tomorrow, if the transit workers strike twelve hours from now as planned. posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 12/15/2005 12:01:00 PM
Call to Action – NYC residents and pastors
Monday, November 14th, 2005When silly policies create needless headaches and can be easily remedied, it’s incumbent on us to demand change. One such issue came to my attention this month, when my Annual Clergy Parking Permit expired, and I am requesting your assistance. If enough of us make noise, this can be cured. The New York City Department [...]
Ten Facts About New York City’s Children
Monday, October 17th, 20051. One out of every 4 people in NYC is a child. 2. Every day 337 babies are born to NYC residents. 3. Every day 2 babies die before their first birthday. 4. Every day many babies are born at risk: 174 babies are born into poor families. 25 babies are born to teen parents. [...]
A light on Wall Street
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005[Click pictures for larger images] Trinity Church, at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway. posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 10/11/2005 10:50:00 PM 0 comments
Spooky
Thursday, October 6th, 2005“New Yorkers were today warned of a ’specific threat’ against the city’s subway system ‘in the coming days.’ Mayor Michael Bloomberg said: ‘This is the first time we have had a threat with this level of specificity.’ He told commuters ‘if you see something, say something.’ Acting on intelligence about the New York threat, a [...]
Reverberations across the pond
Thursday, July 21st, 2005NEW YORK – Police will begin conducting random searches of packages and backpacks carried by people entering city subways, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday after a new series of bomb attacks in London. porn falsh fileporn famaly gaebased porn familyfamily circus pornporn family groupporn animated family guyguy crtoon family pornfamily live porn guy Map
Officially his last
Thursday, July 14th, 2005Evangelist Billy Graham today announced that he has declined an invitation to hold an evangelistic crusade in London, a decision he deferred until after his just-concluded Greater New York Crusadeóhis eighth in the New York City metro areaóattended by more than 242,000 people. What an honor to have participated in the final crusade by history’s [...]
White people and black people and different colored people
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005“Everybody thinks of evangelism as being kind of a rural thing, kind of a country religion. And I think one of the messages that they wanted to demonstrate here was that evangelism is very big in a big city like New York. … And I was watching some white people and black people and different [...]
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