East Village Idiot

This morning, I spotted a maintenance worker watering the garden at the corner of 14th and 1st in Stuy Town. This would not seem particularly abnormal, except that this guy apparently didn’t see the weatherforecast for the next five days. With waste like this, no wonder their rents are so high.

So, the Transport Workers Union is supposedly going to “give us hell” with a work slowdown today. Which makes me wonder: how could MTA employeesbe any slower? And how effective is a slowdown ifsubway servicefeels just as slow asany other day?

I went to a beer festival over the weekend and was inebriated enough to tempt fate by breaking the rules.

I’m usually all about the original content, but it’s hard to pass up an opportunity to show one of the most hilarious examples of MTA employee incompetence, from the folks at The Awl:

There’s some bum information on the MTA’s web site right now.

Priceof a slice of cheese pizza on Ray’s Pizza’s45th anniversary: 45 cents Regular priceof a slice of cheese pizza at Ray’s Pizza: $2.50 Savings per slice on Ray’s Pizza’s 45th anniversary: $2.05 Length of wait in line: roughly 40 minutes Hourly wage needed in order to make saving $2.05 worth 40 ...

At a friend’s dinner party last week (which included far more wine than dinner), I kept some of the partygoers amused by drawing the outlines of all 50 states and having friends name them. I would then add the two-letter abbreviation and move on to the next outline. ...

I’m wearing button-fly jeans today. I hate button-flies with a passion, but these jeans looked too good on me and were too good of a deal to pass up. I’m just wondering why anyone makes anything with a button-fly anymore. It’s not like a zipper is unsightly. It k...

The Blimpie on 4th Avenue and 13th Street is looking for a salesgirl. I guess the position of salesboy has already been filled.

Or, you know, maybe you could use your fancy smartphone in your right handand its stylus in your left handto look up a restaurant’s phone number and save yourself the money. What do you think went into creating this ad? “Hey, 411 use is WAY down.” “I have an idea! Let’s ...

Via Gothamist: Drop Off Service, Planet Rose, Forbidden City, Common Ground, Habibi Lounge, and Superdive will donate 50% of their register on Monday, Aug...

Passers-by in Madison Square might think that Shake Shack has a new competitor. Nearby residents may be afraid that the city is commercializing their public spaces again. No worries. Taj Ma Hot Dog is just part of a set for the show Ugly Betty...

A tragic shooting at 4:30 on Sunday morning left abeloved community member dead as he tried to intervene in a fight that broke out outside a bar at 13th Streetand Avenue A. It’s the first confirmed homicide in the 9th Precinct this year, and the details are gruesome. ...

In the interest of journalistic integrity, I should say that they caught the alleged bastard. There hasbeen an arrest in Sunday morning’s shooting, according to NY1. Great work by the detectives at the9th Precinct. ...