The MTA has passed a wide range of service cuts, including ending free fares for the more than half a million students who currently receive them. (Times) The laws regulating tap water are so old that many Americans are drinking legal yet unhealthy tap water. Water filter makers everywhere put their fingers together and hissed […]

Kids (who don’t live two blocks from class like most of us) could lose the free and discounted Metrocards that get them to school every day. (NY Times) No need to panic over 800,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine lost to a recall. Apparently, it just wasn’t “potent” enough. (ABC News) Empire State Development Corporation (which […]

Subway riders have tea parties and pretend its the Great Depression, sans breadlines (HuffPo). Al Gore is to would-be Bloomberg assassin as Holden Caulfield is to Mark David Chapman (Gothamist). Cue the orchestral backdrop — Phil Spector has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, among greats like Abba, Jimmy Cliff, the […]

Cow manure won’t play a role in contaminating the city’s water, but it’ll actually help it be cleaner. (Gothamist) In an effort to save New York State from bankruptcy, Gov. Paterson is withholding $750 million from schools and local governments. (NYT) Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s female escort has now been given her own sex advice […]

Consequences of Manhattanville! (NYPost) Inefficient mayors! (New York Times) More tiny apartments! (NYPost) Chicken run in Midtown! (NYPost) Santas! So many Santas! (Gothamist)

Can’t get enough of this here recession? Take a class about it. (NYT) Columbia prof dons a head scarf and weighs in on Iranian student leader arrest. (NYT) Tiger Woods pulls the great escape that we all wish we could pull this time of year. (ESPN) MTA gears up for “doomsday mode” lite, 1-riding Columbians […]

Barack Obama CC ’83 accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, tells the “hard truth” about war, annoys the entire population of  Norway, departs with lingonberry jam and a bag of frozen Swedish meatballs; all in a day’s work. Florida judges and lawyers shouldn’t be Facebook friends; courtroom attorneys are, of course, always entitled to “Like” the verdict. […]

First we head East for Harlem For The Holidays, a new bazaar-like holiday marketplace that features unique businesses from the neighborhood. (NY1) After that we head down to New Jersey, which, in terms of gay marriage, now has a chance to distance itself from New York. A metaphorical distance, of course. (1010WINS) Next we travel […]

The Post will not stand idly by while we crazy college kids “live in sin!” (NYPost) But at least your gender-neutral room is bigger than this apartment. (NYPost) Harry Potter dominates college tour rhetoric, frustrates really serious about college–you know, like, academically–high schoolers. (NYTimes) Really new media takes the lead on Tiger Woods: video game […]

Death (or rather, injury) from above in Central Park. (NYT) Cornell prof sues Wesleyan University for accidentally tainting his image. (AP) No need to stroke your ego, Hermione (and this article) will stroke it for you! (Times) What not to do on your junior year abroad. (Daily Intel) Eminent Domain’s most outspoken critic “wouldn’t call […]

Underperforming public schools—Bloomberg’s on the case. Natural History Museums that don’t grant PhDs in comparative biology—but Manhattan doesn’t have one of those anymore. Anything involving the New Jersey Nets—literally, anything. Being Hofstra and having a football team… wait, really? Drinking your alcohol. UPDATE: A commenter has notified us of a Columbia-related news item – James […]

The USenate committee confidentiality proposal will be debated this Friday.  PrezBo will weigh in. The city hates your metal gates.  Except those like the ones over dorm windows. Xavier Sala-i-Martin does not have a tailor in the US.  Nor can you buy his jackets. Surprise! Cab drivers don’t care about bicyclists. More evidence in the […]

I am CUNY. Men fight over me sometimes. (NY 1) I Google therefore I pay (NY Times) I squeak therefore I get a miniature subway car all to myself (Gothamist) I quit! Therefore… oh. (Gawker) I think therefore I am… a thinking power grid (Electric Light & Power)

As the campus returns back to life, so does Bwog. Here are some things that you may have missed during your weekend in far away lands: New York State’s economy is in $3.2 billion worth of trouble, and Governor Paterson is taking $1.6 billion in emergency measures. (1010WINS) Twitter got more street cred as gangs […]

It’s almost officially Thanksgiving break – Bwog will be on bweak too with only a few posts a day. Enjoy your exoduses! The Thanksgiving travel rate hasn’t recovered from last year’s little spill, and the cheap early bus was probably filled to the brim yesterday. (Gothamist, NY Times) If you’re sitting in your dorm room […]