Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Caption Contest

Caption Contest: Shelly’s Lifetime Supply of Free Parking

By Ben Fried | Aug 30, 2010 | 18 Comments

Photo courtesy of the Daily Politics Why is Rochester Mayor and lieutenant governor-in-waiting Robert Duffy presenting this novelty oversized parking placard to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver? The occasion was a ribbon-cutting for a parking structure that just re-opened in downtown Rochester. Back in 2006, an exit ramp of the South Avenue Garage collapsed. Miraculously, no […]

Caption Contest: Time to Expand Car-Free Broadway [Updated]

By Ben Fried | Sep 3, 2009 | 10 Comments

Just another day at 53rd and Seventh. Photo: Gawker. Hey, here’s some of that pulse-pounding New York City energy that a few people wish we still had in the middle of Times Square. Instead of propelling a vehicle through midtown streets, the energy embedded in this taxi’s tankful of gasoline has been converted into giant […]

Caption Contest: Re-name This Foursome

By Ben Fried | Mar 17, 2009 | 47 Comments

Hat tip to Liz Benjamin at the Daily Politics for this snapshot of four state senators who’ve helped concoct a stopgap, toll-less MTA funding plan that does nothing to address the imminent decline of New York’s transit system. Lest they be accused of completely shortchanging the future, they say maintenance and expansion can be taken […]

Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Caption Contest

Caption Contest: Shelly’s Lifetime Supply of Free Parking

Caption Contest: Time to Expand Car-Free Broadway [Updated]

Caption Contest: Re-name This Foursome

While We’re At It, Let’s Reinvent the Wheel

Caption Contest: Broadway Boulevard NYPD Tower

Streetsblog Caption Contest: Times Square