disclaimer first...there is a link at the end of this post to a longer version of this story on my own site, BUT I put the most important part of the story in this posting, and this is a rather unbelievable story and I hope people will take note of it. I'm not trying to push my site, just the story...

A semi-interesting story just got a little juicy. This evening Ray Kelly claimed the NYCLU is publishing and pushing false information:

"The NYCLU report is largely a collection of old, untrue assertions and uncorroborated, self-serving statements by individuals who were arrested during the course of the convention," Kelly said. "The report contains gross inaccuracies, such as its false characterization of the post-arrest screening facility at Pier 57."
Source: NY1

Kelly is reacting to the NYCLU's 64-page! damning report on the performance of the NYPD during the RNC.

Lets look at what Kelly is saying again:
"The NYCLU report is largely a collection of old, untrue assertions...and...gross inaccuracies"

So out of 64 pages, if we are generous with Kelly's words, that means at least 33 pages are wrong, untrue, made up! Of course if we were to really take the spirit of Kelly's words he is really suggesting that 50-60 pages are wrong. Kelly is saying the NYCLU has just published a 30 - 60 pages of false information. The NYCLU. A bunch of very professional lawyers. Is Mr.Kelly serious?  read more »

* Disclaimer: not politics, just personal cool tech whoring*

A new NYC Subway Google Map Hack I built is now online here:
http://www.onnyturf.com/subwaymap.html

And you can read about it here:
http://www.onnyturf.com/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=80

I do think you will find it useful.
nuff said.

If you have lived in NYC for a few years, watching the way real estate deals are cut here, by both city agencies and state agencies, you can become very frustrated by the way business is run, prompting an intrepid blogger such as myself to forget all other responsibilities and write the mother of all articles that will finally reveal the great truths and set the people free. Fortunately it has already been writen and I can go back to focusing on something more mundane like bicyclists civil rights. City Journal in an article How Not to Develop the Far West Side, covers most everything that is wrong with Bloomberg's plans for the West Side Railyards and more broadly the overall backward management of NYC development policy. I do have to put a caveat here: City Journal is very free market oriented, so some of their solutions must be considered with a critical ear, for example they praise the current development of Times Square; and anyone who has even been to the new Times Square would question such an assessment; and they clearly are anti-union and pro-developer first, not necessarily pro-average person. Never the less, City Journal's overall critique speaks volumes to the way properties are being gift wrapped as Secret-Santa exchanges with developers and how executive ego is running roughshod over development opportunities for the city.

Complete Article here  read more »