MAGNIFICENT
MAY MAGIC
PASSWORD
IS: LAMSTON'S
If any ladies (or
cross dressers) want to return some of the makeup they stole from Lamston's
in 6th grade (I have a 20 color lipgloss set), you'll get a free shot
of "Wet N' Wild" - a glorious and colorful concoction that when
improperly used will make you look like a clown.
The big news in this
fair city - starting May 4, the MTA fare hike (scam) will raise the price
of a ride to $2. A new $10 card will get you 6 rides for the price of
5. One day fun pass: $7. Weekly: $21. Monthly: $70. Cards purchased before
May 4th have a grace period - a weekly will be valid until May 13; a monthly
will be vaild until June 12. So stock up before the weekend is through.
This is confusing, so go to: www.mta.info/mta/fares/nyct.html
Also, as of April
13th, tokens were no longer sold, and on May 4th, tokens will no longer
be accepted in turnstiles. But get a load of this, the Roosevelt Island
tram will still be using tokens. You can get them at the 59th and 2nd
tram stop. And while you're at it, take a floaty ride on some cables.
To celebrate this
freakish loophole, the MAY MAGIC GARDEN, in addition to serving the mighty
fine signature beverages - Staten Island Fairy and Ghetto Blaster - will
be debuting a new drink - the Roosevelt Island Tramp. All special drinks
will be $4. Can't beat that with a stick.
Here's a little info
on Roosevelt Island, the 147 acre ile in the middle of the East River:
- Originally known
by the Algonquin Indians as Minnahannock (loosely translated as "Long
Island")
- Purchased in 1637
by the Dutch governor of Nieuw Amsterdam, and renamed "Varckens
Eylandt" (or Hog Island)
- 1667, the British
renamed it Perkens Island.
- 1668, Captain John
Manning, the Sheriff of New York, renamed the island after himself
- 1686, the island
was passed on to Manning's step-daughter, Mary Manningham, who renamed
the island after her husband, Robert Blackwell
- 1828 the City of
New York purchased it and transformed it to an island for municipal
institutions such as prisons, poor houses, and nursing homes
- 1856, Smallpox
Hospital opened, designed by James Renwick Jr., who designed Saint Patrick's
Cathedral, and built by convict laborers
- 1889, Chapel of
the Good Shepherd opened, designed by British architect Frederick Clarke
Withers, who designed Jefferson Market Courthouse on 6th Avenue in Manhattan
- 1921, renamed Welfare
Island
- 1927, Mae West
serves 10 days in Welfare Island jail, because of the indecency of her
own first play, "Sex."
- 1935, Riker's Island
opens and Welfare Island's convicts are sent there
- By the late 1960's,
only two institutions remained: Goldwater Memorial Hospital and Bird
S. Coler Memorial Hospital; the other institutions lay dormant or were
demolished
- 1968, New York
City Mayor John Lindsay organized a committee to explore options for
using Welfare Island, and in 1969 the New York State Urban Development
Corporation signed a 99 year lease with New York City to develop the
island as a mixed-income community of 20,000 people living in 5,000
units in a largely traffic free environment
- 1973, renamed Roosevelt
Island and the first residential complex opened in 1975
- 1976, tram opened
as a temporary means of transportation, until the completion of the
subway stop
- 1989, first subway
station opens (F train) - 13 years late
- Roosevelt Island
uses the AVAC system (Automated Vacuum Collection System), which transports
garbage through underground tunnels at 55 miles per hour, where it is
compacted to 1/5 its size, sealed in containers, and carted away by
the NYC sanitation department. It is the USA's only AVAC system serving
a residential complex (Disney World uses it - not the Times Square Disney)
Roosevelt Island is under the political jurisdiction of Manhattan, but
it receives its police, sanitation and fire services from Queens
- The State of New
York holds a 99-year lease on the island, which will expire in 2068;
ownership will then revert to the City.
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