Oct 20th, 2012 at 4:00PM:
For many New Yorkers, it's a fall rite of passage. Rent car. Book bed-n-breakfast. Drive somewhere with trees. Indulge in pastoral pleasures like hay rides, apple-picking, hiking, canoeing, etc. Return, wondering faintly if you should ditch city life to renovate a colonial home and take up beekeeping.
But often, planning a New York City getaway is a bit more complicated than that. First, ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Roadside America: Hudson Valley, New York
Oct 20th, 2012 at 4:00PM:
For many New Yorkers, it's a fall rite of passage. Rent car. Book bed-n-breakfast. Drive somewhere with trees. Indulge in pastoral pleasures like hay rides, apple-picking, hiking, canoeing, etc. Return, wondering faintly if you should ditch city life to renovate a colonial home and take up beekeeping.
But often, planning a New York City getaway is a bit more complicated than that. First, ...Revolutionary War battlefield of Saratoga to be excavated
Oct 3rd, 2011 at 3:00PM:
One of the most important battlefields of the Revolutionary War is going to be excavated by archaeologists ahead of an EPA cleanup.
Back in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, General Electric dumped polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into the Hudson River near Saratoga, New York. The dumping was banned in 1977 due to risks to public health, and the EPA has ordered GE to dredge up the affected silt from ...NYC pulls trigger on mass execution of geese
Jul 14th, 2010 at 12:30PM: For the past several weeks, the last thing you'd want to be is a goose in New York City. Hundreds of them have been "euthanized," in an attempt to keep the skies safe. You may remember the impact that geese can have on a plane from a year and a half ago, when an unlucky bird forced a US Airways plane out of the sky and onto the Hudson River.
According to the Associated Press:
Carol Bannerman, ..."Miracle on the Hudson" plane up for auction
Jan 22nd, 2010 at 10:30AM: The plane that Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger landed safely in the Hudson River just over a year ago is going up for auction. Chartis Aerospace Insurance Services is accepting bids on the plane, which is described as "having severe water damage throughout the airframe and impact damage to its underside" according to USA Today, though March 27.
Unfortunately, as celeb-gossip site TMZ ...Air Traffic Controller chatting with his girlfriend during Hudson chopper crash
Aug 14th, 2009 at 10:00AM: The plane / chopper crash this past weekend in New York was tragic on many levels - the wife of one of the tourists killed in the crash decided to go shopping instead of taking the sightseeing trip, the pilot of the chopper was in the middle of preparing for his wedding, and now some more shocking news is being released. Apparently, the air traffic controller in charge of that portion of airspace ...FAA releases US Airways flight 1549 ATC transcripts
Feb 5th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Sorry if our constant coverage of the US Air flight 1549 crash is beginning to bore you - but it isn't often that a plane ditches in a river, and everyone is able to walk away. The news today comes courtesy of the FAA, who just released the air traffic control transcripts of the actual event. The audio is pretty boring, so I cut out the most interesting part where the controller is told by the ...Separation of the airline classes made clear in a photo
Feb 4th, 2009 at 12:00PM: This is the kind of photo I could probably post without wasting too many words on. If you ever wondered what kind of perks a first class ticket will get you, then think about the coach class passengers up to their knees in freezing cold water, watching the first class passengers take a comfortable seat in the raft. I wonder whether any of the first class passengers demanded some hot nuts and a ..."Hero on the Hudson": Play it on Gadling!
Feb 1st, 2009 at 10:00AM: Maybe it's too soon for this, but there's already a popular online game inspired by the recent emergency landing on the Hudson River. "Hero on the Hudson" isn't terribly sophisticated, but it gets the point across. You are in the left seat, acting as US Airways Flight 1549 pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. Your plane is headed toward the Hudson River, and you need to take action. This free game ...US Airways check already in the mail
Jan 20th, 2009 at 8:30AM:
Notoriety is now worth $5,000. US Airways sent checks for $5,000 to each passenger on Flight 1549 last week, better known as the plane that touched down on the Hudson River. The payment came with a letter, in which the airline claimed to be "truly sorry." Passengers were also reimbursed for ticket costs.
This is a pretty refreshing move, especially following JetBlue's refusal to recognize its ...Undiscovered New York: Up the Hudson River Valley
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Nov 6th, 2008 at 11:00AM: Welcome to this week's installment of Undiscovered New York. This week we're going to be heading north, following the path of the Hudson River, one of the great waterways of the Northeastern United States. Many New Yorkers will tell your our city is "the center of the world," and in some ways, they have a good case. But the land bordering the Hudson River up to the capital in Albany has been just ...
