Welcome to Big Apple Blog Festival (BABF), a representative roundup of this week’s posts by NYC bloggers.

• CaiLun.info has a great post … “Pop-Up Books” …
• Asymmetrical Information says “The poor really are different” …
• Late Final suggests that “it might be a good time to look at the emergency management plan for your home town” … and has links to more than ten cities … and also notes that … “Long Island, N.Y., where between 3 million and 4 million people live, is doing more to publicize tax-free shopping week than its coastal evacuation routes in the middle of a hurricane season.” …
  The Politburo Diktat … “The local fire department announced a collection for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. We collected a few bags of clothes, stuffed animals, shoes, etc. and brought them over. When we arrived at village hall, we were astounded at the mountain of goods. Take a look” … amazing … take a look

• On Probation says goodbye and thanks to NYC …
• forgotten NY added a new page called “Bank Yankin’ – former savings institutions” … pics of banks, buildings that used to be banks, and some old bank signs …
• The Tin Man has a list of “the articles (with opening paragraphs) that the New York Times ran on its front page four years ago (September 11, 2001)” …
• Time Out New York is having its EatOut05 on September 27th …
• Modern Fabulousity hit 100,000 page views on Sept. 10th … and wants an iPod nano …
• My Urban Kvetch 2005 reveals that … she did give the panhandler $5 … (BABF, August 29, 2005)
• downtown lad believes TriBeCa has … “the best dining experience in New York City” … (for anyone wondering:
  TriBeCa means “‘Triangle Below Canal’ between the Hudson River and Broadway“) …

• Express Train has some beautiful pics of an everyday commute on the subway …
• Young Manhattanite doesn’t like the new Sploid design …
• NYC Metblog reminds us that it is apple picking season … with links to Pick Your Own farms within one hour of the City …
• Third Avenue reviews the New York City Opera’s new production of Richard Strauss’s last opera, Capriccio … in “A jubilant beginning” …
• The Apiary has the secret for “Breaking into Comedic Television Writing” …
• Right Moon? has a link to a shelter in Houston that “has specifically requested Plus Size Clothing” …
• Republican Party Reptile is starting a “Million-Babe March” …
• Ace of Spades HQ, in “Depak Chopra vs. Agent Smith” … asks: “Is humanity a cancer? Or, as Agent Smith would have it, merely a virus?” … or spam? …
• A Brooklyn Life says “General admission tickets went on sale September 6, so now’s the time to buy.” for … Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival …
• Englishman in New York has a pic of the “Smallest Removal Van in the World” … for GregsExpress.com …
• the muse’s pics sent us a link to three of her NYC photos …
• Ragged Thots had a roundup last week that we missed … “Bruce Ratner/Forest City Ratner’s ‘Brooklyn Standard’, an ersatz paper with a raison d’etre of boosting the downtown Brooklyn development project — of Forest City Ratner!”
• Alarming News is organizing a NY blogger bash for sometime in this month.

Listed on the ÜberCarnival page and in Carnival News.
If you have a NYC blog and want to see something in the next BABF, send us a short write up and a permalink to aguyinnewyork [at] gmail … see you next week …