Thanksgiving/Providence/NYC

So I am off to Providence and NYC to celebrate Thanksgiving and my friend Kevin's Birthday. I cannot wait only two more days off work and then we leave in the afternoon of Thanksgiving.

NYC Pictures

Here are a few pics from NYC.

Off to NYC!!!!

(Marcus and I @ Vlada 2006)

We are off to the city that never sleeps!

The countdown begins....

We leave on Thursday for NYC!!!! 3 more sleeps till we will be there.

So much to look forward to:

~People watching

~Walking around the city

~Eating at great restaurants

~Seeing Wicked again

~Seeing old friends

~Enjoying the great vodka drinks at Vlada.

~Dancin my booty away

~Eating at Vynl the first night

~Discovering new places.

~Shopping

~Actual Culture

Next Stop: Walt Disney 42nd St.

Renting subway trains and stations to corporations such as Disney could raise tens of millions of dollars a year and stave off an upcoming fare hike, a board member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said yesterday. The MTA announced yesterday that it would seek to bring in an additional $325 million a year through increased subway and bus fares and bridge and tunnel tolls beginning in 2008 to help close a projected budget gap of $1.8 billion in 2010. Rather than raise subway fares, "I would rather try to sell 42nd Street's subway system underground to Disney for $60 million a year and have them paint it any way that they want to paint it," Mr. Seabrook, president of the city's Correction Officers' Benevolent Association, said at yesterday's board meeting. Trains could be painted with "Lion King" murals or decorated with Yankees insignia for the World Series and bring in tens of millions of dollars a year, he told The New York Sun. A spokesman for the agency declined to comment on Mr. Seabrook's proposal. (source/full story)

NYC remains safest big city in U.S.

My favorite city in the world keeps getting better...

FBI's Report for 2006 Shows 5.3% Drop in Overall Crime in New York City in 2006 Violent Crime Fell 4.6% in City Compared to National Increase of 1.3%. Property Crime Fell 5.6% in City Compared to National Decline of 2.9%. (source)