Times Square, Macy’s and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade down Broadway in New York City are all part of one giant package which makes the attractions in New York much more valuable than the sum of each individual attraction.

And Mayor Bloomberg’s latest boneheaded idea cuts the legs off from underneath the Macy’s Parade by rerouting it off it’s traditional Broadway route. He’s planning to turn Broadway into a pedestrian-only zone around Times Square and Herald Square this spring, according to the New York Times, which would result in, the floats having to find another route.

The parade could either end up making it’s way down the Avenue of the Americas or even get split, with part of it going through Seventh Avenue, north of Times Square.

Let’s move from the laws of unintended consequences to some happy serendipity in New York City  - yes, I have seen the movie, and Kate Beckinsale was fabulous, English accent and all…

So, anyway, you can call this the Manhattan miracle, because Richmond residents Daniel Neman and his wife, Mary Anne, forgot their bag in a cab they took from JFK, and didn’t have the cab’s number or anything to track down the cabbie.

They made their way back to the hotel, where Neman’s mother, who flew in to join them from Cincinnati on another flight, was just getting out of a cab - The same cab. How weird is that?

I mean, New York City has over 8 million people, and I have no idea how many hundreds of thousands of cabs. What are the odds that you take a cab from JFK to Grimaldi’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn, forget your bag in the cab, and then the same cabbie goes back to the airport, picks up your mom and delivers her right in front of your hotel, at eaxctly the same time that you reach there, so you can get your bag back. 

Is that serendipity or what? Only in New York…

Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Thomas
Filed under: New York