Soon To Be Extinct

Various customers rifling through the bins looking for CD's at Other Music on 4th Street in Greenwich Village. One of the last remaining record stores in the city. They carry mostly CDs, but they also have a fairly good selection of vinyl as well. The store is quite small, but now that the far larger stores like Kim's Video, Tower Records and Virgin Megastore are all closed there really aren't any very many other locations to buy music in the city. You certainly won't find any mainstream records here and they definitely don't have any country music. I don't mind one bit.

There were a couple things I was sort of interested in, but I just wasn't in a record buying mood today. Maybe next time.

Parking Ticket Roulette

Parking fines in NYC are so hard to figure out. Let's say for some strange reason you end up parking on the sidewalk. How would you know if you'll get a $25 fine or a $500 fine? That's such an arbitrary range. How do they determine who gets the $25 fine and who gets the $500 fine? It's probably a good thing if you do get a ticket because the alternative is that your car or truck is going to fall into the subway. This is the only time when it's better to get a ticket. Of course you could always go to traffic court and fight the ticket.