Posts Tagged: Jail
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The Incredible Disappearing and Reappearing Rikers Island

It's been a jail since 1932, but our ability to acknowledge Rikers Island on our subway maps has come and gone with the times. It's a strange omission-despite that, yes, the subway map is called the "subway map" and the only way to get to Rikers is by car or the Q101 or Q100 bus, which starts in Long Island City. But the subway map is, for some people, the only way they can find out how to get around New York City. Let's look at the magically disappearing Rikers on the maps from 1968 to 1998.

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And What Did You Do Last Night?

Um, looks like Footnotes of Mad Men is going to be a little bit late today.

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Welcome Back, Squeaky!

Lynette Fromme is getting out of prison in the next few days! (She produced an unloaded gun and pulled the trigger while pointing it in the vicinity of a U.S. President, before you were born.) We have so much to teach her about life here on the outside about the last 30 years. Man, she is going to crap her pants when she sees an iPhone. (Or, you know, a sandwich that isn't bologna.)