If they have the marathon this weekend it is going to be a BIG MISTAKE.

There's a ton of stuff to be done. but the race was a sign of healing in 2001 and will be again this year, assuming they get the go-ahead from the city. I have very little doubt that the city will reprioritize a few things to do this, but it will get done because they want to show that the city can still pull together.

They have a choice.

They can say to the world, that NYC is open for business, the stock exchange is back and the marathon is on.

Or they can say that NYC is a disaster area, the subway is out, the marathon is cancelled, stay away, stay away, stay away.

If they take the second option, then people will stay away. In fact even in mid 2013 people planning to visit NYC will wonder, "does everything function in NYC, perhaps the subway is still out?".

Option 2 is bad for business.

They will go with option 1.

I have to wonder about these people who are all sorts of bent out of shape at the very idea that there could be a marathon in NYC this weekend.

You want to just roll over and play dead? Is that it?

long sox,

I hope you are wrong. That kind of short sighted thinking is a huge problem. If I bring my family to NYC this weekend as planned and it really isn't open for business, I may never go back...

In 2001 we were making a statement against Osama bin Laden and all terrorists.

In 2012... what? We're making a statement against God?

are we joining with climate change deniers and pretending there's no problem?

The storm was bad, not THAT bad, not New Jersey bad. Everything will be normal in NYC except for the subways. It's not like people are being pulled out of rubble, very few people are even displaced from their home. Most restaurants were open they day after. Not having the marathon will accomplish nothing.

the big mistake was paying Mary Wittenberg 500k

stick with eharmony wrote:

the big mistake was paying Mary Wittenberg 500k

After pulling off this year's race she's going to be paid even more.

What do 50 millions dollar a year non-notforprofit companies normally pay CEOs?

(-$*nfMI) wrote:

long sox,

I hope you are wrong. That kind of short sighted thinking is a huge problem. If I bring my family to NYC this weekend as planned and it really isn't open for business, I may never go back...

Because you can't discern between NYC the week after a massive hurricane and NYC during a normal week?

Would you go to a beach in Florida 4 days after a hurricane and get p!ssed when the beach chairs weren't laid out in order?

A top official from Consolidated Edison Inc. ED +0.45%said it could take up to a week to restore power to the bulk of Manhattan neighborhoods plunged into darkness Monday evening.

John Miksad, senior vice president of electric operations, said he couldn’t give a clear timetable and still needed to investigate the scope of damage left by the explosion in substation at East 14th Street and F.D.R Drive. That explosion knocked out power to about a quarter-million customers below 39th Street in Manhattan.

Con Ed was expecting major flooding, he said, but the utility was caught off guard by a tidal surge that topped pre-storm estimates. “Nobody was forecasting that,” he said. “We are in a bit of uncharted territory.”

Miksad said the utility is still trying to figure out the cause of the substation explosion, which might have been due to flying debris or flooding.

Con Ed expects to restore power to Lower Manhattan neighborhoods below the Brooklyn Bridge — areas shutdown preemptively Monday evening and not connected to the substation explosion — in three to four days

"Because you can't discern between NYC the week after a massive hurricane and NYC during a normal week?

Would you go to a beach in Florida 4 days after a hurricane and get p!ssed when the beach chairs weren't laid out in order?"

From my house, NO, I can't discern between NYC on a normal week and after the hurricane. So I'm asking you, the NYRRC and the City in general all of whom are THERE, should I come?

If you LIE to me, then I will be mad, and won't be back. I'm not mad that things aren't in good shape, I'm mad because you lied to me.

I'm amazed EZ10miler that you can't see the difference.

"From my house, NO, I can't discern between NYC on a normal week and after the hurricane."

Then you are too stupid to live. I hope you dont procreate.

So if the difference this week is so big and it is impossible to not know what to do, as you claim, then no one should go anywhere near NYC this weekend no matter what they say?

I guess you're one of those who think the marathon should be cancelled?