The MetroCard van will make its rounds starting Oct. 19 for anyone who wants to buy the cards used on Westchester and New York City buses and the city subways. Here’s the county press release, complete with dates, times and locations for the van:

The full-service MetroCard van will make

The first-ever Metro-North trains from New Haven through Westchester and to the Meadowlands football games went off without a hitch, although not that many sports fans were on board.

In all, 328 passengers rode the double-decker NJ Transit trains brought onto Metro-North tracks by Metro-North crews.

“It was not a full train, but it’s

Some Westchester County legislators were not happy to hear yesterday that the coming state law banning texting while driving is actually weaker than the county’s law — and that the county’s law will be replaced by it.

But that wasn’t the oddest response I got to the articles I wrote about texting and the many other [...]

The husband of Diane Schuler, whose wrong-way drive on the Taconic ended with eight people dead, appeared on Larry King Live with his lawyer and sister-in-law last night.

There’s nothing I can say about it, except watch it for yourself here.

Read The Journal News story about it here.

Expect to see more about it

This morning on the way to work, I saw a guy putting on his shirt in his convertible. He was stopped on Griffen Avenue at Weaver Street on the New Rochelle-Scarsdale border.

OK, that wasn’t really bad. The guy was stopped, no one was behind him.

But I’ve been talking with people a lot about things we [...]

I’ve already talked about how strange and deadly this summer has been on our roads. Well, the oddness continues.

On Aug. 22, we had the Scarsdale guy who chased a man 15 miles from Putnam to Danbury, Conn., after the guy in a pick-up truck allegedly struck his car on I-684. Danbury cops charged the driver [...]

A New York City councilwoman wants a plaque honoring Michael Jackson placed at the Brooklyn subway stop where the King of Pop made the music video for “Bad,” the Associated Press reports. Perhaps Jackson’s name could even be added to the the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, she says.

But don’t hold out

There are a lot of deals out there on airline flights, as there are on everything for used cars to dinners at the local pizzeria. But this one has to catch the eye: jetBlue is offering an “All You Can Jet” pass for $599.

It’s good for domestic flights from Sept. 8 through Oct. 8. But [...]

Gov. David Paterson swept into Tarrytown today to announce that the village train station would get $39 million in stimulus funds. That’s for new platforms, heated shelters, overhead covered walkways with benches and so on.

The governor gathered with a bunch of local

It’s been 15 years since my newspaper somewhat prematurely announced the end of the world.

The occassion was the accident in which a trucker, apparently running on too little sleep, slammed his rig into the side of the Grant Avenue bridge over Interstate 287, launching his 9,200-gallon propane tank into a White Plains neighborhood.

The resulting fireball [...]

Remember the Green Lane crossing, where drivers kept following their Global Positioning Systems even as the hi-tech devices told them to turn onto Metro-North’s railroad tracks?

Well, as work continues to make the path across the tracks more visible, the northbound ramp of Exit 38 off the Saw Mill River Parkway will close for two weeks [...]

I tend not to worry much about warnings that germs are everywhere because, well, germs are everywhere and they always have been.

But for those who do worry, here comes the latest weapon in the war on illness — The Sure Fit Transit Cover. It’s a slip cover that you fit over your airplane seat back [...]

Five Amtrak routes are now included in Google Transit searches. So you can use the Google site to find your way, say, from New York City to Albany, if you can’t figure out how to get to directly to the Amtrak site. (www.amtrak.com.)

(Oddly, though, I was unable to find a public transit route from Yonkers [...]

From way out in western New York (though not far enough away for my money), comes the story of this genuis — a guy who, while driving, was texting on one phone while talking on another.

Guess what happened. Or just read the report here, courtesy

When you drive on the New York State Thurway near Sleepy Hollow you’ll notice new signs that let you know the area is home to a cluster of historic sites.

The recently erected signs highlight the Rockefeller estate Kykuit, Union Church of Pocantico Hills, Philipsburg Manor, Van Cortlandt Manor, and Sunnyside, the one-time