Life in the Big Apple: From today's The New York Times

In its debut on Tuesday evening, [www.ellisislandrecords.org] averaged eight million requests per hour. By 1:30 p.m. Wednesday...traffic had soured to 97 million hits per hour.

Some Manhattan nightclubs have hired private ambulance companies to wait outside and...take revelers who overdose to hospital emergency rooms..

"Spending this much time on ferrets doesn't say something really good about the way our government operates."
--Mayor Rudolf Giuliani