Last night was the end of an era. It was by only the most fortuitous of chances that we were there for it. █████ and I had taken ❦curmudgeon to the incomparable Kabab Cafe before, to be entertained, charmed, and provoked by our friend Ali El Sayed's patter and
It must be a year now since we moved from our old place. Last week we received a whole mess of holiday cards, automatically forwarded from our old address, from folks who apparently didn't get the memo about our change of address. Today, though, I got word from
That's our Ali!
I was half-listening to WNYC this morning as I made the last preparations to leave, when suddenly I heard my friend Ali's voice on the radio. We had noticed that his restaurant, Kabab Cafe, has been closed since the blackout, and we keep stopping by to see if
I'm trying out the new ::lj-template:: tag with this little video █████ took on Sunday afternoon. When your street is blocked off for blackout repairs, what else are you going to do but...
The blurb in this Gawker entry literally made me laugh out loud. And the video's not so bad either: Queens Politicians Stick "Kick Me" Sign On Mayor's Back
When I was walking home from the subway last night, I rounded the corner to see ConEd crews working on my very own street. My pulse quickened. Before I reached home, a neighbor had called out to me that our power was back. Indeed! I ran around the apartment (after
New York Times: Mayor Continues to Defend Chairman of Con Edison "I think Kevin Burke deserves a thanks from this city," Mr. Bloomberg said. "He's worked as hard as he can every single day since then, as has everybody at Con Ed. And itââ
The first photo says it all: Gothamist: Queens Blackout, Day 8
Hell, at night there's very little of anything in sight: Power Failure Lingers as Storm Slows Repairs The police presence in the neighborhood is very impressive. So are the ConEd work crews we've seen plowing through the roadbeds of many streets in Astoria. I saw a
I'm afraid we're not surprised by this, but at least everyone seems to be paying attention now: Queens Blackout May Last Through the Weekend And it only took four days of complaining! (Via █████.)
But sometimes our mayor is pretty funny, as in this bit from AM New York: "The sad thing is, this shouldn't have happened," Bloomberg said. "We don't know why, but the most important thing—make sure nobody dies or gets hurt and then
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