NYC 2106.

Imagine you had the job of designing NYC in the year 2106. The History Channel sponsored such a contest and the designs that came back were interesting to say the least.
Some highlights:
1) Convert every borough except Manhattan into greenspace; build Manhattan 65 stories tall to provide enough housing for everyone.
2) Total elimination of cars as a means of transport.
3) Turn roads into watery "veins" as a fuck-you of sorts to global warming.
4) Creation of a series of self-propelled islands that can dock around Manhattan to provide extra space as needed; i.e. Summerstage.

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A NYC moment: My table tennis protegé, Suphala recently performed at Tonic in the LES. Low and behold who do I meet there? Salman Rushdie! He is a fan/friend of Suphala and also an avid TT'er. I foresee some heated battle in the near future. In case you didn't know, this man wrote a book called The Satanic Verses. It was so raw that the Fatwa Muslim community and Ayatollah Khomeini called for his assassination. In fact, Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of the book was stabbed to death in July 1991. Ettore Capriolo, the Italian translator, was seriously injured in a stabbing the same month; and William Nygaard, the publisher in Norway, survived an attempted assassination in Oslo in October 1993. So until you create something that stirs an entire populous to want to murder you, sit the "F" down.