Central Park fireworks on New Year’s Eve, by Celia Goldsmith.
January 2, 2013 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 31 Degrees.
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A free midday Audrey Hepburn movie and a chance to drink and learn about science at the Museum of Natural History are on our calendar.
News:
A non-scientific review of twitter messages show that 77th Street inside Central Park is the happiest place in New York City. The researchers basically tried to find where people posted the most positive-sounding twitter messages. The “happiest” spot is in The Ramble near the lake, which is indeed a gorgeous area. Or that could just be where the most people smoke weed. (Gothamist)
New York attracted 52 million visitors in 2012, a new record. Approximately 38.4 million of them stopped me and asked “Where’s Strawberry Fields?” (NY Times)
Erika Menendez, the woman accused of pushing Upper West Side store owner Sunando Sen in front of a 7 train, has been charged with a hate crime. “‘I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims — ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers, I’ve been beating them up,’ cops said Menendez told detectives.” (Daily News)
Just like everyone else, our Congressman Jerry Nadler hates the debt ceiling. So he tells us he wants to get rid of it altogether: “[W]e must ensure that we never have another crisis in which the American economy is held hostage to advance the political demands of the most unreasonable and extremist Members of Congress. The simplest way to do that is to abolish the debt ceiling once-and-for-all, and I have introduced and will reintroduce legislation to do just that.”
Brilliant Jerry Nadler. We’ll just keep borrowing until we can’t any more cuz no one will lown us a few trillion. Remind me not to vote for you ever.