Port of New York/New Jersey

This Saturday, at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Columbia Street, the Port of New York and New Jersey rolled out their centerpiece to welcome the thousands of geriatrics that will be flooding the neighborhood once the Queen Mary 2 docks at the new cruise ship terminal in Red Hook next month.

A burnt-out car at that intersection is sure to let all the Midwesterners know exactly where they are. We suggest some sort of permanent flame--a la J.F.K.'s grave--but perhaps we're being too grandiose. Those double-decker tour buses are already making it a stop in the "Welcome to Brooklyn--Now Get the Hell Out" tour.  read more »

-Matthew Grace

• The International Workers of the World have set their sights on three Manhattan Starbuckses (is that the plural?) to unionize, after settling with the company on an unfair-labor-practices suit. Reader poll: Where are they? (AP, via Crain's)
• The Dubai company that wanted to manage the Port of New York has withdrawn its bid. (The Washington Post)
• Jim McManus of the fabled McManus Democratic Machine Club was kicked out of a cigar-smokey West 44th Street storefront and now suffers the indignity of running his operation in a suite across the hall from P. Diddy. (The New York Times)

- Tom McGeveran

I don't know why opponents of increased homeland-security spending won't simply say what they're thi  read more »