Make Your Car Shin!

Sure, and after that, we can go watch The Shinning.

Wrong Beverley, Beverly!

This screenshot taken with my iPhone shows an art display in a subway station. The caption identifies the station as "Beverley Road and Nostrand Avenue on the Q line." Whoever wrote this caption needs to look at a subway map. Beverley/Nostrand is NOT on the Q line! It is on the 2 and 5 lines! Not only that, the station at Nostrand Avenue is fully underground. The station in the photo is in an open cut. The image is indeed of a station on the Q line, but it's Beverley Road and East 16th Street.

Staten Island: Part of New York City, or not?

If you've ever taken a ride on the Staten Island Ferry, you'll know that the ride lasts 25 minutes from end to end, at the blazing fast average speed of about 12.5 miles per hour. If you look at any of the boats they use for this service, you'll notice that three strings of text are emblazoned on each side.

• Staten Island Ferry (Duh!)
• Dept. of Transportation (The agency which operates the Ferry.)
• City of New York

However, I found something interesting aboard the Spirit of America, one of their newer boats.


A bus map of Manhattan. Note, however, that the label on the lower left reads, "NYC Bus Map." If it were really a NYC bus map, it would show all 5 boroughs on it, not just Manhattan!



Second, one of those "You Are Here" signs on the boat. Note that it identifies the ends of the boat as the "Staten Island End" and the "New York City End."

Isn't Staten Island part of New York City? If so, why doesn't it say, "Manhattan End" at the end of the boat opposite the Staten Island end?

Looks like someone needs to look at a map of New York City! Either that, or just give the whole island to New Jersey. That's closer, anyway!

Tower Does Tha Ghettospeak

Tower Records, 66th & Broadway.

So tha so-called "ghettospeak" has seeped into tha marquee of tha store.

It gets cold in New York, but not THIS cold!

55th Street & Broadway, Manhattan, 21 October 2004, 22:27:23

You're not seeing things. This clock/thermometer is actually saying that the temperature is -75°. In other words, SEVENTY-FIVE DEGREES BELOW ZERO! I am assuming that this is in the Fahrenheit scale, because if it were Centigrade, it would be even colder! However, with the date and time provided above, the weather records clearly indicate that the actual temperature was nowhere near this otherwise record low for this or any date in New York City.

Looks like there's a building here already.

Banner on a building in Kew Gardens, Queens
That's funny. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that there's already a building there! In fact, the building came before the banner did!
Also, it looks like the banner originally said, "Coming soom." I guess the sign makers didn't want to spend the money to make a brand new banner, to hang from the building that's been there since before this banner was made.

What Color is the Lexington Avenue Line, anyway?

It's certainly not red!