Earthquake in Soho and Other Musings on Urban Mortality

If ever there was proof that Soho is Jesus' special Manhattan version of the Inferno, today there was an earthquake in my 'hood.

This was not what it was like, and this is not Soho. This IS the first Google Image result for "earthquake," though.

More specifically, there was an earthquake in Washington D.C.  that reverberated across the Eastern seaboard, including NYC.

More after the jump, just sayin'.

The Stupidest People in NYC: Alternative Means of Transport Edition

For all of the fashionable, beautiful, and/or rich people in NYC, there is also a contingent of the population composed solely of dumb fools—and dumb fools with a death wish, at that.

Walking to work in the 4^th Ring O’ Hell (= intersection of Houston and Broadway in Soho) I see endless throngs of the stupidest people attempt the dumbest forms of transport imaginable on a daily basis.

An overview of Manhattanites with the least-thought-out Death Wish, after the jump.