Monday Morning Catch-Up
The unemployment rate for black men in NYC is 48 percent. (Story in Amsterdam News; link via Gotham Gazette.)

As of today, the Roosevelt Island tram is no longer accepting subway tokens. (AP story via Newsday.) We took the tram in January and were giddy to find they were still selling tokens although the rest of the city's transit had switched to Metrocards.

The 40-story Deutsche Bank building will be torn down at Ground Zero. In this picture I took Saturday afternoon, you can see it still covered in black netting just on the south edge of the trade center site.
- posted by Amy @ 3/01/2004 08:13:00 AM