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Commentary,
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Breaking News
and commentary. Frank
X. Didik/Editorial Board
New
York City and important world News
Just
the facts. You decide what to believe.
HOWEVER, much of you think,
do
and say, what you wear and how you live is taught to you by the media.
The
"news" is an entertainment industry, with an added
function of forming public opinion.
News
is not a public information service. Truth is hate for those who
hate the truth.
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Original on site
reporting with additional content.
A
million plus people a month can't
be wrong!
January
14, 2025 Congestion pricing continues to outrage many New Yorkers.
Everything is going up in price. Taxi's, deliveries, and uch more.
The MTA claims a reduced traffic figure of 16%, or 273,000 fewer
vehicles on the road, however one may also consider that this also
means, 273,000 fewer shoppers.
January
14, 2025 It was announced by her family that Anita Bryant had passed
away on December 16, 2024. She was 84 years old. Anita Bryant was a
famous actress, singer and beauty queen. Bryant was born in
Barnsdeall, Oklahoma. She appeared on th Arthur Godfrey talent show
and won the contest when wh was 18 years old. She was then the runner
up in the 1959 Miss America pageant. She went on to become a very
popular singer. She was perhaps best known for representing the
Florida Citrus Comission and her any TV commercials pushing orange
juice. In 1977, Bryant started a campaign against the acceptance of
homosexuals that she felt were a threat to children and violated her
Christian beliefs. As a result of her traditional Christian stance,
Mrs Bryant lost most of her endorsments, TV commercials and was
effectively black listed from Hollywood.
January
13, 2025 Tens of thousand of homes have been destroyed in the wild
fires of California, over the past two weeks. Further 26 people are
known to have lost their lives. Unfortunately, there are reports of
wide spread looting, and price gauging against the evacuees.
January
12, 2025 It has come out that LA had cut the budget of the LA fire
department by 46 million dollars. Further, the reservoir's are now
dry, even though the voters in California had voted 7 years ago to
increase the water supply. California Gov Newsom and LA Mayor are
being blamed for what is being called as being unprepared for the
fires, with calls for them to resign.
January12,
2025 Massive wild fires in California around the LA area, continue
to destroy large areas. So far an estimated 35,000 acres have been
destroyed. One square mile is 640 acres, thus 54 square miles has
been destroyed. Central Park in Manhattan is about 700 acres.
January
8, 2025 Donald Trump has again mentioned that he wants Greenland,
which is presently a territory of Denmark, to become a part of the
United States. This would not be the first time that Denmark has sold
land to the United States. The US Virgin Islands were purchased from
Denmark for $25 million dollars. Donald Trump has also mentioned that
he wants the Panama Canal back. President Jimmy Carter gave the canal
to Panama durring his controversial administration. Mr. Trump also,
part in jest, suggested that Canada become a part of the United
States and that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed, "The Gulf of
America". In response, the president of Mexico suggested
renaming the USA, "Mexico Ameriica"!
January
7, 2025 Today is Christmas day for many Orthodox Christian groups,
using the Julian Calender. It is also the Epiphany or Three Kings day
for most of the other Christian/Catholic groups.
January 6, 2025 New York and the entire eastern part of the United
States is experiencing a cold spell, hovering around 32F/0C. What
ever happened to the promised global warming that would have freed up
millions of acres up north for farming and would have reduced heating costs?
January 5, 2025 The imensly unpopular, so called "Congestion
Pricing " has come into effect. All cars, vans, trucks and
motorcycles entering into Manhattan below 60 street will be charged a
toll. For cars, the toll will be $9.00 per day, though scheduled to
increase to $16.00 per day in two years. Allegedly the money will be
used to improve the subway and for the construction of the extension
of the Second Avenue Subway. It is expected that between 1.2 and 2
billion dollars per year, will be confiscated from from drivers into
the hands of the MTA. Some are calling it a money grab, others a
scam, while yet others, a war on the middle class. Regarding
congestion, the highly underused bicycle lanes have reduced the road
area by 30 percent, yet bicycles are not insured, do not pay road tax
and are used primarily by fit people under the age of 45. The bike
lanes are hardly used in the winter or in bad weather. Another reason
for the slowing down of traffic is the ill advised "Vision
Zero" which has reduced the speed limit of cars from 30 miles
per hour to only 25 miles per hour. Today is not the freedom that
America had prior to 1965'.
January 3, 2025 President Elect
Donald J. Trump will not face jail time or any fine in the "hush
money" trail, a New York Judge has ruled. However the judge did
not throw out the conviction that many feel was a political vendeta
and thus Mr. Trump will be the first sitting president convicted of a feloney.
January 2, 2025 The New Orleans
terror attack from December 31, 2024 killed 14 people and injured 32.
The driver is a former U.S. Military man who apparently became a self
described Isis follower.
January 1, 2025 A Tesla
CyberTruck exploded in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. It is
beleived that only the driver was killed. It is not known if the
explosion was a terroriest attack or simply fireworks in the trunk
that exploded.
January
1, 2025! Happy New Year! Let
us hope and pray for global peace and a quick end to the suffering
caused by the Israeli-Palestinian war and the suffering caused by the
Russian-Ukrainian war.
December 31,
2024 In what seems to be a terrrorist attack, a man drove a pickup
truck into a crowd in New Orleans and killed an estimated 15 people
and injured 35 people.
December 30,
2024 President Jimmy Carter, who passed away in Plains Georgia, his
life long town.
In the four
years that former President Carter will be remembered for:
We
pray for his soul and give our sympathy to his family.
December 29,
2024 Former United States Jimmy
Carter Dead at 100 years old. Mr
Carter was the longest living United States President.
December 25,
2024 Merry Christmas to the 1.5 Billion Christians celebrating
Christmas today!
December 24, 2024 Today is Christmas Eve, the traditional beginning
of the 12 days of Christmas. Christmas on December 25, is celebrated
by over 1.5 Billion people worldwide. Some of the Orthodox
Christians, still celebrate Christmas on January7, which is also
known as the Epiphany or the Three Kings Day.
December 24, 2024 According to the Catholic Magazine, "The
Tablet", Europe has been cancelling Christmas for many years, by
allowing non Europeans to migrate to Europe. The majority of these
people are not assimilating into the traditional European Culture.
Click on The
Tablet for more information.
December 23, 2024 Panama has rejected President Elect Donald Trumps
idea of taking back the Panama Canal.
December 23, 2024 President Elect Donald J. Trump has stated that he
plans to try to make Greenland a territory of the United States.
Greenland presently is owned by Denmark, however Greenland is
considered a part of the North America. During World War 2, Greenland
was indeed under the control of the United States. Mr. Trump has also
mentioned his desire to regain the Panama Canal, that former
President Jimmy Carter gave to Panama.
December 22, 2024 A United States Navy advanced F-18 aircraft carrier
based fighter was shot down in the Red Sea. The United States
government claims that the aircraft was shot down accidentally by
"friendly fire". Both navy men aboard the plane were
recovered alive from the Red Sea.
December 22, 2024 A Yemen hypersonic missile has hit the center of
the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
December 21, 2024 Update on the Magdeburg, Germany Christmas market
massacre. It has now been revealed that 5 people have died and over
100 people injured by the Saudi Arabian doctor Terrorist, who drove
his car into the packed market place.
December 20, 2024 Magdeburg Germany. A terrorist, said to be a 50
year old Muslim doctor from Saudi Arabia, who is said to have lived
in Germany since 2006, has driven a car in a packed German Christmas
market, killing at least 11 Christmas shoppers and injuring over 80
people. Magdeburg is a city of 240,000 people, west of Berlin.
December 20, 2024 President Biden has forgiven 4.3 billion dollars in
student loans. This money, that was owed to the American taxpayers,
will now be spread among all taxpayers. Students who have already
paid off their school debt will not be refunded.
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PRIOR
YEARS
An excellent selection of photographs
and commentary, primarily from
New York City:
Main
Page and index to more recent months
2024
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2023
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2022
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Christmas
season 2021
Holloween
October
2021 September
October 2021
July
August 2021 Defeat
in Afghanistan, NYC Vax passport, new rules to prevent unvaccinated
from entering restuarants, social events
June
2021 New York Opens up for summer and about the Tokyo Olympics
Late
May 2021 NYC
is coming back to life.
Early
May 2021
Covid hysteria is dying down and people are beginning to live life
April
2021 NYC and the World
March
2021 Life
in NYC getting back to a new normal
February
2021 Snow,
cold, people getting used to the so called "New Normal".
Relative calm in NYC
January
2021
Protests around the United States including in Washington DC, NYC
Snow storms, eating outside in the cold in NYC
Christmas
Time 2020 Christmas
time 2020, election results between Donald Trump and Joe Biden,
Protests and more
Summer
and Fall 2020
Happenings around New York City in relative calm
May
and June 2020 Massive
protests, looting and rioting by the groups Antifa and Black Lives
Matter. Also shows the after effects of a boarded up city.
March
and April 2020
An empty, silent New York City from March and April, 2020
Earlier
months and years
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Index from around the world
Early
New York City Building Photographs from 1995 to 2005 (Pre Street view)
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Opinion
According
to Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), if you do not read the news, you
will be uninformed, but if you do read the news, you will be misinformed.
Subway
barriers: New
York, NY January 21, 2022 With falling and being pushed onto the
subway tracks becoming a daily occurrence, it is time to promptly
install subway barriers / gates on all 480 subway and elevated
stations. Frank Didik, who has been desperately pushing subway gates
to the MTA and other agencies since over a decade points out that
hundreds of people could have been saved over this period of time.
Further, thousands of people could have been spared hideous, life
transforming injuries, including by MTA workers. Further, the MTA
could have avoided paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in
liability, that could have already paid for the entire subway gate system.
Subway
Safety-Subway Gate Every year hundreds of people are
killed or severely injured when they fall onto the tracks of trains
and subways. The prevention is cost efficient and greatly reduces liability ...
read
more ...
Greatly
reduce train noise A significant
amount of train noise is caused by the train wheels rolling over the
expansion joint of the tracks. This vibration creates noise,
vibrations, an less pleasant ride and also reduces the life cycle of
the train. The solution is relatively simple and cost effective..read
more
Sunglasses
Dangerous?
Sunglasses
reduces reaction time, since it takes
longer for the brain to process a darker image then a well lit image.
This could lead to potentially dangerous situations. Some early
Stereo 3D systems used a dark glass and a lighter glass for two
different eyes to achieve the 3D effect, though polarized glasses are
more common.
Cell
Phone Etiquette
Advice for the modern person -
December 9,
2016 read
more
Time
to Rethink Bike Lanes
Advice for bicyle based cities
- August
3,
2016 read
more
From the right,
Frank Didik, Dr. Eric Bitterman, Chairman of Deutche Welle, Dr.
Jachem Reppmann, and publisher Walter at the Von Steuben formal event
in New York City. Though Frank Didik does not have any German
background, he enjoys the inginuety and drive of the German people.
 Frank
X. Didik with former NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio and first lady Chirlane
McCray, at Gracy Mansion. Former
Mayor DeBlasio served two terms in office and then as per term
limits, had to leave office at the end of his second term. Mr
DeBlasio original birth name (May 8, 1961) was Warren Wilhelm Jr. and
later used the name Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm and then finally adapted
his mother's maiden name DeBlasio and today is commonly known as Bill
DeBlasio. Mr.DeBlasio was succeeded as mayor on Jnuary 1st, 2022 by
new mayor Eric Adams, who became New York City's 110 mayor.
New
York City is not ready for congestion pricing. The
sensors that bill vehicles, are only at the entrance points in
Manhattan and thus can only bill incoming cars, not cars already in
Manhattan. Thus, presently, only outsiders will be billed for tolls.
New York City is ONE CITY, consisting of Manhattan (Borough of New
York), Brooklyn (Kings), Queens, Staten Island (Richmond) and the
Bronx. Shouldn't every New Yorker have free access to all parts of
the city? Didn't the unification of Brooklyn with Manhattan in 1897
specify this as being one city?
Congestion
Pricing favors the upper income people and will
significantly reduce local business, while pushing middle class
drivers to shop elsewhere that does not have this burdensome tax.
Ultimately this will work against the city.
Social
Media or Vanity Media With the development of the so
called smart phone, a new phenomenon of "social media" has
developed that caters to the vanity and inner ego of millions read
more
Bicycle
Lanes favors the young and healthy, while inconveniencing
older citizens, drivers and delivery trucks. Further, for the most
part, they are rarely utilized during the winter months... read
more
Fact
Checkers "Fact Checkers" present an opinion
rather than absolute fact. Further,
who will fact check the fact checkers"? Recently read
more
Time
to start enforcing the laws covering motorcycles,
powered bicycles and powered scooters:
  
The laws covering
motor vehicles (gas, steam, electric), must be enforced including
having proper registration, insurance and make sure that the driver
has a proper drivers license and skill to drive the motorcycle. NYC
has become like the wild west. Here we see unregistered, uninsured,
motorcycles and their unlicensed riders, using the bicycle lane over
the Manhattan Bridge. Electric scooters are extremely dangerous but
are very popular. They really are unlicensed, unregistered
motorcycles. Originally the State of New York, Vehicle Traffic and
Safety Laws permitted human/motorized hybrid vehicles, primarily
wheelchairs, for disabled people, including veterans after the
Vietnam war. But now the rule is completely abused.
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In
1826, John Quinsy Adams, the president of the United States, was
asked about the freedom of
the
press. He responded "It wasn't in the past, it isn't now,
but I sure hope it will be in the future".
Congestion
Pricing.
If to reduce traffic congestion was really the purpose of the $9 toll
to enter Manhattan below 60th street, the easiest method would be to eliminate
the highly under used bicycle lanes
and abndon the 25 mile per hour reduced speed limit and go back to
the 30 miles per hour limit. Regarding bicycle lanes, on narrow
streets, they reduce the roads from two to one lane. In other areas,
such as on 8th Avenue and 32 Street, the bike lanes cause traffic
jams by reducing the road from 6 lanes to only 3 lanes. The bike
lanes are hardly used when the weather is bad. It is doubtful that
any New Yorker wants the city to fall to the level of London.
Medical
Business
Since
the recent cold blooded murder of the CEO of United Health, which is
the largest private for profit medical insurance company in America,
many questions have emerged regarding the medical business. As it
turns out, many medical insurance claims are turned down, leaving the
patient to pay the bill themselves. The patient may have paid medical
insurance for years, thinking that they are protected, only to have
their claim denied. According to some published sources, United
Health has the highest denial rate in the industry with an estimated
32% of the claims denied. Other private medical insurance companies
are not far behind. In the case of "Managed Care" programs,
such as Medicare Advantage, many people on Medicare are tempted to
sign over their direct Medicare and go with the private insurance
companies. With Medicare Advantage, a person must use the insurance
company approved doctors and even then, some of the medical
procedures must be approved by the medical insurance business. The
more procedures turned down, the greater the profits to the medical
insurance business. It is time for Congress to reign in the abuses of
Medicare Advantage, regardless of the insurance industry campaign donations.
Film
Vs Digital
A Fuji 6x9 (2 1/4 x 3 x 1/4) film camera with many
rolls of Fuji Velvia 50 film, which sadly is very hard to buy today. Fuji
Claims that the finished positive (slide) film will
last up to 100 years.
Digital
Currency
will represent a loss of freedom and privacy. Digital
Currency will mean the total control of your money by the government.
Thus what you (are permitted to) buy will be under the complete
control of the government. Further, everything you do and buy will be
known to the government and anyone who has access to this
information. Thus everything that you buy or sell or are permitted to
buy or sell will be known and potentially controlled.
-April 11, 2023
It is time
for the New York City to take action to control bicycles Lets
face it, the quality of life in New York City is suffering
from bicycles, electric powered bikes and scooters. The riders feel
that they are above the law or don't even know the law. These vehicle
almost without exception, never obey traffic laws, go through red
lights and even go through crosswalks while people are crossing. It
is time to start requiring all bicycles to have registration, and
clearly visible license plates, and insurance. If cars and trucks
have to "share the road" with bicycles, bicycles must also
pay their fair share and obey the law. read
more
Share
the road: This NYC sign says "Share the road".
Good idea! Perhaps it is time for bicycle riders to obey traffic laws
and also pay a road tax, just as the car drivers have to do. Indeed,
share the road!
App based taxi ride services often block traffic
traffic while picking up customers. read
more
Vision
Zero is without vision. Is the well
intended Vision Zero New York City program started under former Mayor
DeBlasio to reduce pedestrian deaths from vehicles working? Some of
the actions taken was to reduce the speed limit in NYC from 30 miles
per hour to only 25 miles per hour. In addition, when the cross walk
light says walk, the traffic light for cars changes a few seconds
later, allowing pedestrians to start to cross before cars start. In
some areas, there has also been guides put on streets so that cars
must make a larger diameter turn. Has these measures work? Actually
these measures have not helped at all. Our speculation as to why
these measures have not worked are as follows. The crossing
pedestrians have come to take it for granted that the cars will
always allow them to cross and unfortunately, the pedestrians do not
look both ways. Further, many pedestrians are oblivious to their
surroundings because they are staring at their smart phones and do
not take a moment to carefully look to see if all is clear to cross
and also many pedestrians wear ear buds playing music or talking on
the phone that further reduces their attention to traffic. It should
be noted that many years ago, the brother of this writer was hit and
killed by a car.
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