This morning I was chatting with an Amtrak conductor as the train was stuck in the tunnel right outside the platform in Penn Station. He described a disturbing premonition he had.
"On Saturday I was walking down Sixth Avenue past 47th Street when I saw a man wearing black boots, a black hood and a black cape chasing a taxi. If the Batmobile has been repossessed then we're all in serious trouble."
On Saturday the Albany Times Union reported that protective netting would be installed on the underside of a Broadway bridge to guard against the possibility of concrete falling on Amtrak trains and employees.
But this is not the sort of thing Charles Fort, who devoted his life to investigating strange phenomena in the skies, would have been interested in.
State Department of Transportation spokesman Peter Van Keuren said Friday that those chunks were likely knocked loose intentionally by inspectors who examined the bridge on Wednesday and issued a safety flag to notify the city, which owns the bridge.
"It's structurally sound," Albany Public Works Commissioner Tom Capuano said of the bridge. "This [netting] should take care of it."
If it doesn't, maybe Batman can hold his cape under it.
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