Nigel Van Wieck
(Source: themagiclantern)
Koch: I wanted to get rid of New York’s graffiti problem, but I wasn’t in charge of the subways, the MTA was. I called the MTA into City Hall and told them they had to get rid of the graffiti. I presented them with a plan to do it: Kids were spray-painting train cars in the yards at night because there weren’t any fences. I told them, just put up a fence and put some dogs inside. They got scared, worried that the dogs would bite people, so I said, “OK, if you don’t want any chance of dogs biting people, get wolves.” That’s the problem with the new Liam Neeson movie, The Grey. There’s no recorded case of a wild wolf ever having bitten or attacked a single human being in North America.
I don’t believe that.
Well, it’s true. The next day Clyde Haberman of the New York Times came to me and told me he’d checked my statement and that there are records of domesticated wolves biting humans. I said, “I know that! I’m not talking about a domesticated wolf. I’m talking about wild wolves. Let’s have wild wolves protect the trains. If the wild wolves become tame, replace them with more wild ones.”So you recommended that the MTA fight graffiti with wild wolves?
Yes.—Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch has died at 88. We spoke with him in 2012.
Mayor Bloomberg’s sign language interpreter is my new hero! BITCH BETTA WERK!
They’re raising subway fares again?
Isn’t there some sort of rule that trains should work well and function before you can do that?
IM LOOKING AT YOU, G TRAIN
Fucking G Train. Worst.
“Milton Glaser, New Yorker and the graphic designer who created the iconic “I <3 New York” logo, told theVillage Voice last year, “[A New Yorker is] usually someone who, for one thing, thinks this is the only place in the world to be. Which is to say, you don’t think of the other options one would have in life.” New Yorkers, especially those who have been there for at least 10 years, the length of time Ed Koch says it takes to be a real New Yorker, aren’t surprised when people flee their city. It happens every day and for every reason: money, depression, marriage, work, boredom, school, et cetera. And yet so many New Yorkers still say to their friends who are leaving, “I just can’t imagine living anywhere else.” That is a lie, of course-they can imagine living somewhere else, and many of them have lived elsewhere. But in New York, like with “alone,” one’s definition of “living” transforms, too, and nobody else is doing it but New Yorkers.”
- From Gawker story “I Used to Love Her, But I Had to Flee Her“
Interesting. I’m going on 13 years in NYC and I agree with most of what is said above. Never surprised when people leave, but also completely surprised anyone would ever leave. It’s a bizarre duality.
I’ve been seeing the posters up all over the city in tribute to MCA, and the amazing graffiti tribute in Brooklyn, and now this Saturday will be “MCA Day” in Union Square. Pretty amazing how NYC influenced MCA so much, and now NYC is returning the favor.
This is the most NY thing I have ever seen on tumblr ever and I love it so much
Yesssss
I Love To hate LA, Lower East Side
roaring twenties: your weekend plans pt. 2
She basically hit the nail on the NYer’s Hurricane weekend head.
get a thirty rack. drink every time someone on tumblr, the news, or your living room says irene. drink every time you catch yourself wondering if you have enough water and then drink every time you scold yourself for being someone who is worrying because ugh, it’s just rain and you are too cool to…
