Mar 26

New York City Round-Up

DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York)

Our lead-off story: recently-instated Governor of New York David Paterson (Columbia ‘77) admitted earlier this week to doing marijuana and cocaine during the 1970s. City Room has a helpful chart concerning various politicians and their statements concerning prior substance abuse. Between Paterson and Barack Obama, marijuana and cocaine must really be scaring the values voters more than normal right now.

More after the jump:

Tyler Kepner and Ben Shpigel over at Bats are predicting that the Yankees will miss the postseason in 2008. This is ridiculous, but whatever. Nevermind that the Bombers haven’t missed October baseball once since 1994; considering how preseason predictions usually fare in any sport, this set of predictions is probably not worth paying attention to. Based solely on how the Red Sox pitchers looked yesterday against the As, it still looks like the A.L. East will be the usual dogfight.

City Room also reports on the shocking news that New York’s subway system doesn’t smell like daisies. Imagine that. And I must say that, as a resident of the Upper West Side, cleaning the 7 and L trains seems like a misallocation of MTA’s resources. Why does Queens get the special treatment?

The Daily News reports that NYPD is trying to bring the 16 acres of wreckage at Ground Zero under its own supervision due to “mounting concerns about protecting the site from terror attacks.” The question being: what is there for the terrorists to attack at Ground Zero?

Also, belatedly: the Mets suck.