Schumer Brings Ring of Sensors to the City get ready to feel horrified

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Just call him Senator Get-'er-Done: between beseeching JetBlue to stay in NY and saving Bannerman Castle, Senator Chuck Schumer announced today that the Department of Homeland Security has approved funding for a program to protect NYC against a nuclear attack, calling the program "an indispensable tool used to protect the population, transit hubs, and commercial centers of New York City from the possibility of a devastating nuclear or dirty bomb attack." Another triumph for the Patron Saint of Pool Parties?

The Post reports that the NYPD will receive $18.5 million (out of $20 million nationally available) for the terrorism-combating program, called "Securing the Cities." NYC will be the first to install a ring of sensors along highways, toll plazas, bridges, tunnels and waterways in order to detect radioactive and nuclear material before it enters the city.

When the plan was first discussed over two years ago, it was estimated to require $75-100 million to install properly, and likewise, Sen. Schumer said additional funding would be necessary to purchase more sensors, fully link up the system and train police. Hopefully he'll figure out a way to finish the job; sometimes all it takes is grabbing a gun and killing some pheasants.

WNYC: Schumer Supports Holding Terror Trials in NYC

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NEW YORK, NY January 22, 2010 —Sen. Charles Schumer has expressed support for holding the trials of terror defendants in New York. The New York Democrat says his main goal is to see alleged 9/11 planner Khalid Sheik Mohammed and others brought to justice swiftly

"The prosecutorial authorities who I have talked to in Washington and here in New York believe that the method that they chose was the quickest," Schumer says.

Schumer called the idea of holding the trials on Governor's Island intriguing, but the NYPD has since shot it down, saying there are too many risks involved in transporting prisoners to and from the island.

Members of the Community Board for Lower Manhattan, who adamantly oppose holding the trials in their neighborhood, first floated the alternative.

Sputnik Swarovski Crystal: a New York pic by Russ Glasson

While scanning for something great to blog about I found this picture: Sputnik Swarovski Crystal. I should blog more New York photos like this one.



Russ Glasson describes it with these words:

The Lincoln Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York.

Click for the location of the original New York photo only since people keep asking.

Can anyone share an opinion?

Any private, super-elite high school performing arts school in New York City?

Are there some Manhattan private performing arts schools in New York City? (well, erm, im sure there are, but) what are the best ones??? Like, the high school versions of Julliard and NYU Tisch?