EV Grieve

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Yes, yes, yes — Christmas is coming, we get it

We'll always have the MTA

From today's Post:

An MTA bus bully slapped a $100 summons on a Manhattan woman deemed too slow to show her ticket for the new express M15 Select Bus -- a service that has increasingly become a cash cow for the money-strapped agency.

Since 2008, NYC Transit cops have handed out more than $1 million in summonses on the two Select Bus lines, the M15 and the Bx12, whose riders buy tickets from a sidewalk machine rather than pay on board.

The machines are supposed to speed the passengers' trips, but some straphangers gripe that the speediest thing about the Select Bus service is how quickly officers ticket customers.

Celebrate the Bowery on Tuesday evening

From the EV Grieve inbox...

BOWERY HISTORY: A CELEBRATION
A lively evening of talk and entertainment honoring the cradle of American popular culture. Birthplace of tap dance, vaudeville, and punk rock, the Bowery is being nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. Hosted by Bowery Alliance of Neighbors & Two Bridges Neighborhood Council

Tuesday, November 30, 2010
@ Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street (Btwn. Rivington & Delancey)
SUBWAYS: F to 2nd Ave., 6 to Spring, B/D to Grand, J to Bowery

6 - Happy Hour (Cash Bar), featuring vintage Bowery cocktails
7 - Showtime

HOSTED BY:
Kent Barwick,
President Emeritus, Municipal Art Society

PERFORMERS:
Poor Baby Bree, Chanteuse (w/Frankllin Bruno, piano)
Bob Holman, Poet, Bowery Poetry Club

SPEAKERS:
City Council Member Margaret Chin
Kerri Culhane, Architectural Historian
Peter Quinn, Novelist, BANISHED CHILDREN OF EVE
Eric Ferrara, L.E.S. History Project, author of upcoming book on the Bowery
Anthony Tung, Author, PRESERVING THE WORLD'S GREAT CITIES
Trav S.D., Vaudeville Historian and impresario

FILM:
THIS IS THE BOWERY (rare film from the 1940s); fascinating footage of
the Bowery Mission, street life, etc. In many ways anticipates Lionel
Rogosin's classic 1956 documentary ON THE BOWERY.

TICKETS:
$20 - General Admission
$15 - Student/Seniors
$50 - Sponsors (Priority Seating)

Via here or 866-811-4111