The New York Minute Show

Happy New Year folks!
Show Notes

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44 Million Visitors to New York City in 2006. Why did (or why will) you come to New York City?
NYPD subway sting operation. Bags with cell phones are bad news.

New Year’s Tips

Go out (especially to restaurants) early.
Don’t pay in advance for all you can drink events.
Be flexible and consider going [...]

The very popular social news site called Digg has started up a podcast directory where people can submit and “digg” their favorite podcasts.
Lots of diggs are a great way to help raise the profile of this site. So I would appreciate it if you could take five minutes of your time to Digg The New [...]

This is part two of the Fifth Avenue walking tour video. The first part of the tour was published in October and featured a walk from 34th St. to 51st. with lots of great sights along the way.
Part two includes the walk from 51st to 59th Streets and includes sights such as Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, [...]

What will New York City be like in 2030? Its a question that New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his planning team have been pondering.
There are many challenges in dealing with a growing metropolis. The top three in the list that the city planners came up with should come of little surprise to anyone [...]

We had some problems recently with the link to our video podcasts within iTunes. For over a month the link to the video was pointing to the audio channel.
So for a while I actually had two audio channels in iTunes. Something like this is definitely not good for subscribership. Luckily the folks at the [...]

The new taxi fare rate hike went into effect yesterday. I reported on this back in September. You’ll now pay double the amount ($.40 vs. $.20) for the time you’re sitting in traffic. Some initial test runs by local reporters indicate that the effect on the overall fares is pretty significant. Not a shock. They [...]