The Fredösphere

I'm researching hotels for my family's holiday to New York next month.  Google Street View is, once again, proving to be a godsend for choosing travel accommodations.  Now you can decide for yourself if a neighborhood described by a reviewer as "a little creepy" is safe enough for your precious seven year old Maharincess.

Street View has a disadvantage common to all technologies delivering massive new amounts of information:  it vacuums time like a red matter singularity on a Romulan starship.  I've spent hours and hours evaluating hotels on Manhattan and in Long Island City.  Looks like we're going to choose this new tower right off the subway in LIC, supposedly just a five minute ride from Grand Central Station.  Yee. And also, ha.

Labels: Holiday