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		<title>The Brothel Five Levels Below the Street</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/06/08/the-brothel-five-levels-below-the-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old Central Depot, which sat across across Ludlow Plaza from Old City Hall from 1896 until its demolition in 1968, was a wonderful, massive gothic structure, covered in ornament and decoration which one doesn&#8217;t find much in today&#8217;s construction. It certainly isn&#8217;t found in its replacement, the City Centre Square building, a long rectangular affair, completed in 1972. Below the glass and brown brick-covered box, the City-Suburban Transit Authority (CSTA) has its Ludlow Plaza Station, the only remnant of the old depot. It&#8217;s one of the nicer stops in the subway system, with some of the old architectural details still showing through slight neglect mandated by tight budgets over the decades. Central Depot was the showpiece of the of the Ostahanoc Valley Northeast Line, a regional railroad that did very well with both passenger and freight transport during this city&#8217;s booming industrial age. As such, the railroad&#8217;s offices were located on the upper five floors of the massive limestone edifice to transportation. The first two floors were dedicated to the grandly-designed passenger concourse and two levels of tracks were located below, which are now used for CSTA subway and regional light rail. But few know about the levels which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter From the Scientific Front- Mind Games</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/06/23/a-letter-from-the-scientific-front-mind-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A vague new academic discipline creates a bonafide new-media star. When Jack Arkush was a child, he would sometimes accompany his father downtown, where William Arkush was a mid-level advertising executive for the Kenner Agency. &#8220;He worked on campaigns for sporting goods, for eyewear,&#8221; Arkush says. &#8220;General-interest stuff that didn&#8217;t interest me.&#8221; What interested the younger Arkush, as it turned out, were the elevators in his father&#8217;s office building. &#8220;The first time he took me to work, we walked into the lobby, and there were two elevators waiting,&#8221; Arkush says. &#8220;We stepped into one. As the doors closed, I saw people filing into the one across the way. We started to rise first, but when we got to the twentieth floor, where he worked, the people who took that other elevator were already there.&#8221; Most people would accept that outcome with equanimity, if not indifference. Jack Arkush was different. He felt it as an injustice. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t bother me that we didn&#8217;t get to the twentieth floor first,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It bothered me that I didn&#8217;t understand exactly why we didn&#8217;t get there first.&#8221; Today, Arkush—a portly, bearded man of fifty-eight—doesn&#8217;t have that problem. He works on the second floor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Candidate Ron Paul Dis-invited</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/02/17/ex-candidate-ron-paul-dis-invited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former presidential candidate Ron Paul was scheduled to give a speech this Wednesday at Watson University for several student political science classes, but the event has been canceled. Watson Students for Poli-Sci (WSPS) had booked the Congressman (R-TX) to come and speak back when he was still in the race, but hoped that his exit from the campaign could still serve as fodder for an instructive talk. The problem came last week when the group began to circulate a last round of press materials promoting the campus event. In the press release, WSPS publicity committee head Ian Sandborn (class of &#8217;09), made a reference to &#8220;Rep. Ron Paul&#8217;s failed presidential bid.&#8221; Once the release began to be circulated, that sentence was all it took for scores of Ron Paul supporters to begin a deluge of phone calls and emails to the Watson University Student Affairs office, Student Activity Board, Administration Office and to Sandborn&#8217;s apartment. Threats of protests, threats of contacting university donors and even threats of death resulted. At one point, even confused administrators over at the Community College were contacted about the release. After consideration by administrators and the WSPS, Rep. Paul&#8217;s invitation was rescinded, citing safety concerns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stop-Callers</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/08/15/the-stop-callers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, here at The City Desk, we like to offer well-researched accounts of the city&#8217;s past and present, based largely upon old newspaper articles, city/university archival materials and personal accounts. We like to stay away from posting apocrypha whenever possible. Today&#8217;s topic, though, is a bit harder to nail down using such traditional means. The idea behind it is simple, that of the public transit &#8220;Stop-Caller,&#8221; someone who would sit on the bus and call out the upcoming stops, so that passengers would have advance notice. Of course, on most transit systems these days, this is taken care of via an automated recording (when it works). Here, for a brief period (maybe) there were actually people assigned this job on specific transit routes. The thing is, no one can exactly agree as to when or why. One version has the Stop-Callers riding along on some of the City-Suburban Transit Authority&#8217;s (CSTA) major bus routes after a particularly awful snowstorm in 1931. The reasoning being that the drivers needed to concentrate on the road ahead- this other person, usually someone from the CSTA office, whomever could be spared that also had a good sense of the route. This was said to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batteries on the Tracks (or Lack Thereof)</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/05/28/batteries-on-the-tracks-or-lack-thereof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 01:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall, Watson University instructor Susan Jakovac was looking for a new project to use in her Statistical Analysis studio class, but she kept coming up short. Jakovac wanted something with real world application, that would require her students to do some hard data collection and observation and nothing seemed quite right. That is, until one afternoon, while standing on the platform at the Osberger Avenue subway stop waiting for the Brown Line, she happened to look down at the tracks in sheer boredom. She realized that something was missing. &#8220;I hadn&#8217;t really noticed before- but there used to be so many batteries- mostly double and triple-A- down between the tracks,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I always figured that it was from people discarding them from their CD players and Walkmen- I looked around and saw about six people right there listening to iPods and the wheels started turning.&#8221; The wheel-turning led to a bit of digging and some luck in the records of the City-Suburban Transit Authority (CSTA). Though it led to cost overruns and a great deal of annoyance on the part of CSTA employees, Damon Flynn, a political appointee who ran the authority from 1997-2000, had a touch of [...]]]></description>
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