This school has its own planetarium!

While we're on the subject, sort of, here's an important Truman-related factoid: The US has had two presidents with the middle initial "S". Harry S. Truman's middle name was simply S (he generally signed his name with a period after the "S" even though it didn't stand for anything). Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant. The congressman who nominated him to West Point mistakenly wrote his name as "Ulysses S. Grant", and Grant just continued using that appellation going forward.

Taking advantage of the city's ban on personal electronic devices in public schools, these trucks set up shop outside high schools and, for a dollar apiece, store kids' phones while they're in class.

I didn't know bread distribution companies existed, but several different ones were making their pickups today, including Bo Tav, Powerhouse, and Bullseye.

that hand would be dressed up as a giant turkey for Thanksgiving.

The plaque reads:

Looks like someone else is getting fed up with these ubiquitous tree-mounted you're-going-to-hell notes.

It's been quite a while since we last crossed paths with him. Here's what he's protesting this time.

These are just a few of the dozens of buildings that constitute Co-op City, the massive agglomeration of high-rises and town houses in the northeast Bronx that's been looming on our horizon for many months now. Built in the late 1960s and early '70s on the former site of a US history-themed amusement park called Freedomland (billed as the "Disneyland of the East" until it folded a mere four years after its 1960 opening), it's the country's largest cooperative housing development, with about 55,000 residents!