The New York Minute Show

I took a nice walk from Penn Station, up through Times Square and then up the West Side to Columbus Circle yesterday. I had my camera with me and shot several clips along the way. So look for a video podcast on that very soon.

New York Minute Show follower Andre from Germany was nice enough to send me a bunch of wonderful panoramic city shots like this one taken at Top Of The Rock looking south with the Empire State Building in view. Click here or on the photo to view the full set.

We’re bringing together podcasting, a New York Charity and a New York musician for a great cause. Blubrry, Brother Love and The Boomer Esiason Foundation are teaming up to raise money to benefit the Exercise For Life Scholarship fund.
The campaign, running from March 15th to May 15th is called The Blubrry Jam To Fight Cystic [...]

While I try to be as much of an optimist about New York City as possible, it is important to acknowledge the drawbacks of life in NYC.
Costs for just about everything including food, housing and transportation are high. Taxes are high too. At 8.625% the sales tax in New York City is probably higher than [...]

Combine a Google Map with a New York City subway map and you get a very cool and useful resource for getting around town.
http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/

For the first time in recent memory the Empire State Building was dark yesterday evening. The top of the building is always lit from nightfall to midnight. Then I realized that it was probably due to the funeral services for President Ford. The color scheme at the top of the building changes quite often due [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]