Is the New York Times website down?

http://www.nytimes.com/

I can't get it to come up, and all other pages I try work fine.

maybe it doesn't like you. :shrug:

...but it is running.

that the NYT is just another outlet in bed with the crooks

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/nyregion/04bus.html (registration, but you have an account, or you wouldn't be on this thread, right?)

Lacking $2 Bus Fare to Shelter, Homeless Get a Free Ride, to Jail

(T)he M35 bus at night is a place of weary faces and empty pockets. It runs from Spanish Harlem to the largest men's homeless shelter in the city. Every night, men file on to get to a place to sleep. Sometimes they pay the $2 fare; sometimes they pay just a penny.

In recent years, other riders have appeared, just as scruffy but with a different goal. These are undercover police officers, aboard to arrest fare-beaters....

The bus starts at 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, crosses the Triborough Bridge and reaches the shelters on Wards Island, a small island across the East River, in less than 10 minutes.

Homeless men and the lawyers who defend them say that the city created a Catch-22 when it designated the shelter as the place to sleep but then started arresting people who could not pay for the bus to get there. Even if they wanted to walk to the shelter, the men said, they could not, because the only footbridge from Manhattan is closed in the late fall and winter and at other times closes after 8 p.m.

Words fail me. Remember, I am an NYC expat; I have, in fact, walked across that very footbridge, for recreational purposes. "The greatest city in the world!" "The city so nice, they named it twice!" The words begin to ring hollow as the city enters its third repuke mayoral term in a row, with no sure-fire Dem candidate in sight to prevent a fourth.

Bear in mind that the fare is two bucks each way. Four bucks a day is a serious bite out of an already empty wallet. Much like seniors in Bush**land have to choose between food or medicine, these men may end up choosing between food and a ride to shelter (or try to beat the fare, plainclothes cops notwithstanding).

Remember, it is not (yet) a crime to be homeless (but watch for it in Patriot Act III :scared: )