QuasiMondo

I heard that Mayor Bloomberg had contengency plans in place. The city was braced for the kind of upheaval that shook it during other disasters like 9/11 and the MTA bus and subway strike. I wanted to see how things were holding up so I took a detour on the way home and swung through midtown Manhattan along 34th Street to see how my beloved city was holding up.

Uh oh! Looks like some cabbies didn't get the memo.

34th St, coming out of the Lincoln Tunnel:


8th Ave, outside Madison Square Garden:


7th Ave:


Broadway:


Park Ave (behind the Benz and Town Car):


Lexington Ave:


3rd Ave:




2nd Ave:


Southbound on the FDR Drive:


Houston (for you out-of-towners, it's pronounced HOUSE-ton) Street, who's that's in my rearview?


The New York Taxi Worker's Alliance declared the strike a smashing success, claiming 80% of cabbies stayed home. Really?

Of course, traffic did seem noticeably smoother getting through the city today, so maybe the strike did have an impact....just not the impact they were looking for.

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Cameron originally envisioned the Terminator as a small, unremarkable man, giving it the ability to blend in more easily. As a result, his first choice for the part was Lance Henriksen. O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist but Cameron did not think that such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer.

-From the Collector's Edition DVD of The Terminator