Use Verizon? On the east side? Your phone might not work! "Due to a malfunction in Verizon's network, both landlines and AT&T cell phones (oh no, the iPhone!) connected to the network have reportedly been out of service. Verizon Communications Inc. says the 'digital cross connect' that connects calls on the East side of Manhattan from 20th Street to 40th Street is at fault."
They are so making that up.
Ben Gates: The past is filled with incredible mysteries. The clues to solving them are all around, hidden in plain sight. But this story begins with the most famous assassination in history. Abraham Lincoln's killer, John Wilkes Booth, kept a diary. A diary that was found the night Booth was killed, with 18 pages missing. Concealed in those pages is the key to something much, much bigger. A conspiracy that crosses the globe, and a discovery that the world isn't ready to believe: The digital cross connect.
- from the February 2011 release, National Treasure 2: Digital Cross Connect, starring Nicolas Cage
Well that happens to be my LEAST favorite part of Manhattan! So nuts to them.