Word: manhattanization
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...suggests that the cops felt they needed little in the way of probable cause to stop someone. Critics say the frisks are overly intrusive and unequally applied. "They will shake you down because of the color of your skin or the way you dress," charges Dinkins. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan last week launched a probe of N.Y.P.D. tactics...
Should the most biting joke in an animated comedy about Manhattan in the year 3000 be that the city's airport has been re-named the John F. Kennedy Jr.? Probably not, but we don't get much more than that in Futurama, the latest from Simpsons' creator Matt Groening. The show lacks the vision of The Simpsons, the snappy rhythm and the kind of far-reaching humor that keep it dizzyingly smart even after a decade on the air. Is there anything good to say about Futurama? Sure, it's better than Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza...
...River Houses needn't worry, naturally, since many blocking groups will be assigned there. If your group gets stuck in Minneapolis House, though, you had better like your blockmates. Still, as The Unofficial Guide to Life After Harvard will tell you, every House has its charms. Sophomore housing in Manhattan House is rumored to be awful, for example, but the senior (citizen) suites there are unbeatable...
...West Side Highway is the road that runs along the Hudson River--or, really, stumbles along the Hudson River--on the western edge of Manhattan. By chance, it once gave me a strong intimation of mortality. In 1973 portions of the highway collapsed, triggering years of arguments about replacing it with a gargantuan project called Westway and then more years of constant construction whose purpose has never been apparent. Sitting in a traffic jam maybe 15 years after the original collapse, I was suddenly hit with the realization that I was not going to live to see the West Side...
Julius Miller, a former Manhattan Borough President, was mentioned in passing last week because Mayor Rudolph Giuliani--living proof that not all American boys absorbed Joe DiMaggio's example of doing whatever you do with grace and dignity--took the occasion of Joltin' Joe's death to push the idea of naming the West Side Highway the Joe DiMaggio Highway, and Governor George Pataki resisted that in favor of a freeway in the Bronx. The agendas reflected in the argument were theirs, of course, rather than DiMaggio's; Pataki wants the Bronx Bombers to stay where they are, and Giuliani...