The New York City Traveler

The latest pageant scandal has hit New York.  As it turns out Miss Brooklyn doesn’t live in Brooklyn, she lives in Manhattan.  And, she isn’t even a native New Yorker– she’s from Virginia.  Wait until those Brooklyn girls hear about this!   Guest of Guest

An all hybrid, credit card-swiping fleet isn’t enough.  The city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission is looking for the “Taxi of Tomorrow.”  Gotham Gazette

According to tradition, leap year is the one year in which a woman can propose marriage to a man.  Coincidentally, the largest “Running of the Brides” took place yesterday in Union Square.  Gothamist 

For the first time in five years, the MTA has raised some fares.  Too bad you need a PhD from MIT to figure out the math behind it.  Second Avenue Sagas

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