By Foster Kamer 6/12/12 5:19pm

JOBS THAT ARE HARDER THAN YOURS

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Confessions of a New York City Paramedic: ‘The EMS System in NYC Is Breaking’

You may know Reddit as that wonderful social media community that yields things like AMA, or “Ask Me Anything” threads, wherein people who have had life experiences (like surviving being shot in the head) or jobs (like being a celebrity, or an investment banker) get asked by the public what it’s really like out there. But today, a thread like this appeared not in the AMA section of Reddit, but in one of the New York City-specific threads, wherein a paramedic moving to the city was looking for information about jobs.

The help they got from Reddit was practical, sure. On the whole, though, for the general public, it’s fairly enlightening. Read More

By The Editors 1/12/11 1:29am

Editorial

Snow Job: Bloomberg Weathers the Storm

To hear Mayor Bloomberg’s critics tell it, he is an out-of-touch elitist who can’t be trusted to clear the streets of snow, never mind manage the schools, balance the budget, keep neighborhoods save and develop job-creating economic policy.

That’s funny—hasn’t the mayor been doing all those things, and more, all these years? And isn’t it Read More