The only mashup of New York City being utterly destroyed in the movies you’ll ever need to watch.

Union Square is PACKED right now. Or shall we say, occupied. Our live blog.

It was as if we somehow topped the usual absurdity they see in the ghetto—now it was some Batman-and-Robin routine with an older Chinese man who doesn’t speak English with a NEW YORK ball cap and his skinny white-dude sidekick zipping around Bronx streets late at night with packages of chicken wings.

It’s time for you to read this very well-written story of life behind the glass at a Chinese delivery restaurant in Mott Haven.

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dbreunig:

Respite!

In a nod to years of griping from captive passengers, taxi officials agreed to let the owners of the new cabs decide whether to install the screens, which are required in the city’s 13,000 yellow taxis.

“With Taxi TV, there’s a diversity of opinion as to the value for passengers,” David S. Yassky, the taxi and limousine commissioner, said rather delicately. “So it makes more sense to leave it up to the taxi owners.”

Translation: no one liked them except for the media companies who drove their adoption. File Taxi TV with QR codes, Cuecat, mobile TV, TV check-in apps and other products spurred by marketing and media company desires rather than actual consumer demand or use cases.

I’d argue NFC payments (in their current form) fall under this umbrella as well. But that’s a longer post. (Via NYT)

Taxi TV can not disappear fast enough.

Rejoice! If we had a nickel for every time we fumbled to hit mute on Taxi TV, well, we’d sure have a lot of nickels, I’ll tell you.

Happy New Year, y’all.

(via jessbennett)

Today in Headlines We Never Thought We Would Actually See

Mayor Mike Bloomberg lands on the cover of this week’s Newsweek International, tied to our piece on his plan for “world domination.” [Insert snide remark related to said world domination about Zuccotti Park missteps here!]

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I ‘like’ this variation (Taken with Instagram at Brooklyn Industries)