From the IHT yesterday

This is unbelievable. What IS believable is that the IHT is owned by the Times. If you don't see anything wrong, well then, the Times is hiring and they want YOU.

More Scoop on the London Terrace "Sidewalk Bridge"

Ok I don't want to turn this into a London Terrace blog (even though there isn't one yet, hmm ...) but the scaffolding thing just keeps getting better.

The LTTA (London Terrace Tenant's Association)put out the October newsletter today claiming that the scaffolding "will remain in place until exterior maintenance (not yet under contract) is completed" (emphasis mine). They add that Rose's estimate is 1-2 years. My friend on the second floor basically has a terrace outside her bedroom window, and despite there being no one doing any work, there still manages to be accumulating garbage on the structure. Here's an interesting tidbit uncovered at Property Shark:

7/19/2007 Failure to maintain exterior bldg wall. bricks fell from around the wi ndow at the 9th flr of exposure # 1. install sidewalk shed. remedy: ma intain exterior bldg wall.
7/10/2007 Failure to maintain exterior bldg.north elevation facade parapet exhib its vertical cracks,separating & shifting in its facade;vertical crack s reopening in corners of its facade;greenery plants growing joint &

So even after scaffolding went up at 450 after bricks fell there, no one ever checked the rest of the building?

Another doozie from the Times

In today's Times (which I now only read to scan for mistakes)their "blog" The Lede" dignifies Rosie O'Donnell's cockamamie 9/11 conspiracy theory by talking seriously about it.

The Lede is the general news blog of the Times and the blogger, Mike Nizza took over in April after spending some years managing the online presentation of the paper's important news stories (ahem, the front page). So now he's a writer!

The Times said:

"The blog aims to be a place where stories and themes plucked from the day's local, national and international news are highlighted and discussed - using the Web and its rich repository of links, archives, images and forums as a resource for adding context, for pushing a thesis further, or for simply sparking a conversation." That rich repository is Mike's playing field and his library.

Maybe Mike should pay a bit more attention to his playing field and library, as in the last sentence of today's blog he sarcastically implies that the Warren Commission was, as many Americans feel, wrong in its conclusions about the Kennedy assassination. Just yesterday in the Times, presumably part of the web's "rich repository of links," they ran a review of the new Vincent Bugliosi book that concludes that Oswald indeed did act alone in his assassination of Kennedy, essentially upholding the findings of the Warren Commission as fact.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one that caught it.