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World AIDS Day Memorial

Today is World AIDS Day. This is a time to remember our loved ones lost to AIDS. It also serves as a poignant reminder for us all to help the 33 million people who live with this epidemic each and every hour of their day.

In honor of World AIDS Day, the clients and staff of Housing Works are reading a list of names of people who have died of AIDS. You can add a name and contribute personal stories. Join them in saying, “End AIDS now!”

Salvaging Abandoned Bikes

THEIR frames molder and peel in the city’s musty depths. Hundreds — perhaps thousands — rest in haphazard jumbles, their surfaces pocked with rust, their tubes airless and stiffened by time.

No firm numbers exist for how many bicycles sit abandoned in storage rooms around New York City. They decay uncounted in dim basements, mixing awkwardly with sleek new city cruisers and carbon-fiber racers, threatening to turn an increasingly marketable real estate amenity, the bicycle storage room, into something like a bone-filled catacomb.

“You have no idea this world of bicycles that’s awaiting you,” said Pasqualina Azzarello, the director of Recycle-a-Bicycle, a nonprofit group that says it rescues 1,200 bikes each year in the city, most of them from basements. “It’s something that we deal with quite often.” (read more at NY Times)

10 Million Reasons To Not Mind The Marathon

The New York City Marathon might be a headache for those who want to get across town (or even cross the street) on Sunday, but it is a serious windfall for the city. And not just because of all the cash being spent on carbo-loading and tree cutting. According to Mayor Bloomberg the 26.2 mile race (and its 47,000 runners from all 50 states and 135 countries) generates more than $10 million in tax revenue. “It’s one of those events that really does set us apart,” Bloomberg said yesterday before painting the orange and blue finish line in Central Park. “The race is a major boon to our economy.”

And as far as sporting events go, it is hard to argue that the Marathon (which is watched by millions each year on TV and in person) is anything but great advertising for the city. It looks this year’s race should be as good as ever, what with a cool and sunny weather forecasted. Still, it is going to be hard to top the 2011 Chicago marathon for amazing publicity—what with one of their runners giving birth after successfully finishing the race! (via Gothamist)

Where to Eat Near the NYC Marathon

The annual ING NYC Marathon is going down this Sunday, November 6, and while many of us are gearing up to cheer on our favorite runners, the thought of all that calorie-shredding physical exertion is making us hungry, natch. Check out this handy Marathon dining guide, with recommendations by mile marker, because let’s face it  - all that cheering really works up an appetite. (via Zagat)

New York City Marathon Aerials

The ING NYC Marathon takes place this Sunday, November 6th!  Are you going to be one of the estimated 45,000 people running?  Or one of the over 2 million spectators cheering them on?  A few Corcoran-ites are running on Sunday and a whole lot will be yelling like mad to urge them to the finish line.  To increase your excitement, check out this beautiful gallery of aerial shots of the largest marathon in the world!

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Subway Conducting But Were Afraid To Ask

Subway conductors, what do they do all day? Good question! And look, Reddit has gone and gotten a real live subway conductor to answer that question and oh so many more. Like, do conductors ever see mole people, what’s with the pointing up when trains pull into stations, what is the code for when a person has jumped in front of your train, what line is the most fun to conduct, and more. (via Gothamist)