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Bypassing delay-plagued La Guardia Airport, Neeleman based the airline at John F. Kennedy, an international gateway that is crowded only a few hours per day. But it's also eight miles farther from Manhattan and more expensive to get to, a potential hurdle for low-fare domestic customers. Nonetheless, JetBlue lobbied the Clinton Administration for a remarkable 75 slots (takeoff and landing rights) at J.F.K., enough to allow robust airline growth through 2005. J.F.K. has proved a smart move: when congestion choked La Guardia to a standstill last year, JetBlue launched a marketing campaign that called J.F.K. "New York...
...Drug Enforcement Administration to repay $7,000 it had seized from a black businessman in the Omaha, Neb., airport on the (quite false) theory that it was drug money. The A.C.L.U. called it "flying while black." Dr. Lauren Shaiova, a pain specialist who treats sickle-cell-disease patients at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center, says doctors have long allowed African-American sickle-cell sufferers to agonize because they assume blacks will become addicted to pain medication. Call it "ailing while black...
...will sign such a provision. He has spoken against racial profiling in only the most general terms. But conservatives are mounting a campaign to defeat the legislation. In the City Journal, based in New York City, Heather Mac Donald, senior fellow of a right-leaning think tank called the Manhattan Institute, argues that disproportionate traffic stops may be rational because there is "some evidence" that minorities commit more traffic violations per capita...
...Manhattan recently I attempted something that is thought to be all but impossible for a black man: I tried to hail a cab going uptown toward Harlem after dark. And I'll admit to feeling a new nervousness. This simple action--black man hailing cab--is now a tableau in America's ongoing culture war. If no cab swerves in to pick me up, America is still a racist country, and the entire superstructure of contemporary liberalism is bolstered. If I catch a ride, conservatives can breath easier. So, as I raise my hand and step from the curb, much...
Alex Robinson's "Box Office Poison," (Top Shelf Productions; 602 pg.; $29.95), has nothing to do with Hollywood, but is instead a phone-book-sized story of friends and lovers in their twenties living and working in New York City. The central character, Sherman, slaves away at a Manhattan bookstore while struggling with aspirations of being a writer and coping with his self-destructive girlfriend. Meanwhile his best-friend, Ed, employed as the assistant to an old-time comicbook "legend," begins a crusade to earn his craggy boss compensation for the lucrative characters he signed away fifty years...