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Extra, Extra: These Waterfront Streetcars Better Float
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 18, 2016
Modified Feb 19, 2016
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Published Feb 18, 2016
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- The proposed $2.5 billion waterfront streetcar system would be very susceptible to flooding, duh.
- A suspected Anonymous hacker was arrested after he was rescued by a Disney cruise ship, of all things.
- Punctuation in famous novels, visualized.
- Justice Antonin Scalia was staying gratis at the resort where he died—and the resort's owner also owns a company that was sued in a case the Supreme Court declined to hear.
- A Harlem postal cop fired his gun after a rat startled him.
- Enjoy this video analyzing Bernie Sanders’s Brooklyn accent.
- The grieving brother of the man dragged to his death by an F train this week says, "We’ve been riding trains and buses since we were teenagers."
- The Yankees new ticketing policy will make it more difficult for fans to buy tickets on the secondary market for face value or less.
- And finally, just let this kangaroo have some milk you heartless bastard!
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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