At the MTA, Delays Are All Relative
There are many wonderful things about the might-actually-eventually-finally-sort-of-happen Second Avenue subway. Among them are increased access to the far East Side of Manhattan, decreased crowding on the Lexington Avenue lines, and the creation of New York’s very own T, which is bound to please transplanted Bostonians. There’s also this: When else do you get to refer to a project delayed for some 80 years as having an “early start”?
2nd Ave Subway Could Get Early Start [amNY]
The Line That Time Forgot [NYM]
in other news
Fun With Local Papers’ Headlines: ‘One of These Things Is Not Like the Others’ Edition
Old-lefty defense attorney Lynne Stewart was sentenced yesterday to 28 months in prison for smuggling messages out of prison for her convicted terrorist client, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. The government had requested a 30-year sentence. Here are five local papers’ headlines on today’s story:
“Stewart Gets 28 Months on Terror Charge”
“Terror Lawyer Off Light”
“Lawyer, Facing 30 Years, Gets 28 Months, to Dismay of U.S.”
“Civil Rights Lawyer Gets 28 Months in Prison”
“Wrist Slap for Smirk Jerk Terror Attorney”
So, can you guess which one is the Post’s?
Earlier: Lynne Stewart Sentence Begins; Chaos Ensues
the morning line
Forget It, Jake
• Chinatown business owners are beefing with Hollywood crews that have flooded the neighborhood, with 25 film permits issued over the last twelve months. City Hall says it’s the neighborhood’s fault for being so damn photogenic. [amNY]
• In one of the strangest street attacks in recent memory, a pedestrian was stabbed by a passing bicyclist last night on West End and 63rd. The assault appears completely random. Perhaps citywide bike lanes are a good idea after all. [NYDN]
• Local news predicts an unrelieved Manhattan Bridge traffic nightmare for the next year while the lower level is closed for a spruce-up. Daily Intel’s AccuChopper 20,000 predicts the same nightmare for the twenty years following the Atlantic Yards groundbreaking. [WNBC]
• Mets tie series, prompt the following tortured sports-pun headline of the day: NOW BATS MORE LIKE IT. [NYP, natch]
• Finally, some club called Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers went out of business — with a name like that, what could be
the problem? — hopefully stemming the steady flow of elegiac human-interest features. [VV, NYT]