A brief parody of the film, directed by City Desk contributor Stephen Levinson: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQE045CkDpY]
Mayor Montgomery, Our Own Eliot Spitzer
The unfortunate situation with New York’s Governor Eliot Spitzer has reminded some of a similar controversy which rocked our city in the early 80s. Popular Republican state Representative Karl Montgomery was elected to the mayor’s office in 1980 and had…
Snapshots: The (Proposed) Exact Center of the City, 1912
June 1912– A crew of county and city surveyors poses in at lot at 870 S. Harner Street, which would have been the exact geographical center of the city after the proposed Annexation of 1913. After a bitter battle (both…
“The New-Economy Day Laborers”
A misunderstanding over the attempted coining of a new phrase has resulted in an unlikely friendship between two groups of the City’s workforce. When Tomas Babushkin announced the opening of WorkSHOP, his new “wiki-place†where freelance information professionals can rent…
Elsewhere- This Is Not About a City
The Further Adventures of Li’l Bruce Wayne [The Invincible Super Blog] Often disregarded as part of any continuity, Li’l Bruce Wayne was a long-running series of light-hearted comic books aimed at children, detailing the life of a young, fantastically wealthy…
Snapshots: Demonstrating the Safety of Vaccine, 1956
Caption on the reverse of the photo: “March 13– Dr. Archibald Vinson, head of the City Health Department, administers a dosage of polio vaccine to his granddaughter, Becky Simmons, in her classroom at Calvin Coolidge Elementary School, as a demonstration…
Pothole Budget Mistakenly Allocated For Potluck
Due to a clerical error, city funds earmarked for this spring’s pothole repairs were mixed up with funds intended for a potluck for City Streets Department employees to celebrate last month’s groundhog’s day. Streets Department clerk Debbie Winton, who was…