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Where can I watch the MLB All-Star Game tomorrow night in Ithaca, New York?

madcaptenor — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:52:17 -0800

Where can I watch the MLB All-Star Game tomorrow night in Ithaca, New York? The Major League Baseball all-star game is tomorrow night. I would like to watch it. Ordinarily this would be easy. What makes this hard, you ask? I'm in Ithaca, New York for a conference at Cornell. I am staying in a Cornell dorm (on North Campus), there is no TV in my room, and there are "TV lounges" but the key I have doesn't unlock them. Presumably they give those of us who are here for conferences different keys than the students who stay in this building during the academic year. And I am carless; presumably someplace in Collegetown would be the closest but my Ithaca geography is not so good. The Internet connection in my room is good, so feel free to make suggestions that take advantage of this.

Bonus points if I won't be surrounded by Mets or Yankees fans. (I'm from Philly, and I went to college in Boston so I absorbed "Yankees suck" pretty quickly.)

Where should babby be made?

lassie — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:25:53 -0800

Best NICU in New York City? A good friend just had a very premature baby. Now that the focus is off mom and on the baby, my task is to help the parents decide if they should stay where they are (St. Luke's-Roosevelt by Columbus Circle) or relocate the baby to another hospital's NICU (specifically New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell).

While personal anecdotes about your experiences at either hospital in this particular situation will certainly be valuable, I'm looking more for answers that point me in the direction of relatively objective, professional assessments of the value of one hospital over the other with regard to their NICUs. I'm certainly willing and able to do research, but Google returns a bewildering array of hits, and I'd like to be able to narrow this down a bit.

Needless to say, this is somewhat urgent, and I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks very much.

Can I just sleep in the lab?

you're a kitty! — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:15:06 -0800

I'm moving to Ithaca, NY for grad school, but it's tough to find housing from a distance. Any suggestions regarding rentals and neighborhoods? I'll be a first-year graduate student at Cornell in the fall, and unfortunately I can't afford to fly out to Ithaca again to find an apartment. I've spent a lot of time online, including at the Cornell Housing site, but I'm still sort of lost. My priorities include a safe neighborhood with good nearby bus routes (I'm female, and will likely be returning home late at night), and, if possible, the ability to bike to campus in the summertime; but I realize that would probably require living at the top of the hill, which might not be feasible. I won't have a car.
I also have some doubts about just what sort of living situation to aim for. I enjoy living with my current roommate, but I'm concerned about signing up to live with someone I've never met. I'm strongly against signing up to live with a larger group. So my preference is either for a one-bedroom apartment in a busy complex, or a two-bedroom a bit further afield. I've already been denied campus-owned housing, so that's not an option.
Any general suggestions for good realtors/websites/resources? Experience with different neighborhoods? I found an older post regarding housebuying in Ithaca, but rentals are significantly different. If anyone remembers their first year of graduate school and has advice on choosing (or not choosing) a roommate, that would be much appreciated too. Thanks!

Ithaca-NY real estate filter

FauxScot — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:09:15 -0800

Can anyone characterize the current real estate market in Ithaca, NY as "buyer's market", "seller's market", soft, vigorous, etc? and/or back up with 'days on market' type stats? I am trying to help friends find a home to buy in Ithaca during grad school and seem able only to access ancient data or the self-serving, intentionally obfuscating crap realtors post to lure in the unsuspecting. (Sometimes, google seems worse than useless!)

I am seeking very recent experience in home buying in Ithaca (close to Cornell, if possible) and a sense of the general single family home market there. Any mefites buy/sell a home in Ithaca recently? (Additional info: 150-200K price range, first time buyers).

More to the point... where is info like this generally available to the non-realtor? Certainly, it's public domain to some degree, and perhaps it's just my limited imagination at work, but I can't envision any source other than realtors to whom it would be worth compiling it AND making it publically available in a real-time manner. Am I overlooking something obvious?

Cornell WP template

yclipse — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:33:19 -0800

A watermark to add lines in a word processing template? I want to set up a tempate for a Cornell Notes page, with lines similar to ruled paper in the main notes section. I cannot figure out a way to add the lines without having to manually create a series of horizontal lines. Is there some shortcut I am missing?

I am familiar with the Cornell Method PDF Generator website. For reasons of my own, I want to do this within a word processing template.