$573M deal to can MetroCard
GAME SHOW legend Bob Barker paid tribute to his late wife on the 36th anniversary of her death Thursday by visiting her gravesite with a bouquet of flowers.
The 93-year-old Barker laid down a batch of daisies at Dorothy Jo Gideon’s grave and cleaned her headstone during his 20-minute vigil at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
Photos from his visit also show the former “Price Is Right” host sitting down at his wife’s final resting place.Gideon died in 1981 after a battle with lung cancer . She was 57.
Barker has remained single since then.
“I never had any inclination to remarry,” Barker told “Good Morning America” in 2007. “She was my wife.”
Barker — who has long advocated for animal rights — credited his wife in that same interview for sparking his desire to fight for animals, and praised her for becoming a vegetarian and disapproving of fur coats before many others.
The pair were high school sweethearts, who got married in 1945. They did not have any children.
Barker was the face of “The Price Is Right” from 1972 to his retirement in 2007. He spent over 50 years as a TV host overall, during which he earned 19 Emmys.
The veteran entertainer was hospitalized this past June after he slipped in the bathroom of his Hollywood Hills, Calif., home, but was released by doctors a few hours later.
That fall was not as serious as one he had two years ago, when he slipped on a sidewalk near his home. He suffered a knee injury and had his head stitched up. THE BEGINNING of the end of the MetroCard is here.
The MTA is set to award a $573 million contract to Cubic Transportation Systems, the company behind the original MetroCard, to create its replacement, which will be complete in 2023.
The new fare payment system will let riders “tap” their way into a subway station or bus, meaning no more poorly timed swipes.
Passengers will have a variety of digital options to pay their fare once the MetroCard goes the way of the token. Wallet apps like Apple Pay and MTA-issued cards are just a few ways to pay. The system will also cover fares on the commuter rail lines, Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road.MetroCards will work until they are phased out in 2023. A QUEENS MAN has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for chucking Molotov cocktails at houses of worship in a hate-fueled spree.
Suraj Poonai Ray Lazier Lengend, 45, firebombed five occupied buildings, including a mosque and a Hindu place of worship, during a 2012 New Year’s Day rampage in Jamaica.
The unemployed truck driver told cops he targeted the mosque because they wouldn’t let him use the bathroom, sources told the Daily News. On Thursday, Lengend was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He pleaded guilty last month to attempted arson as a hate crime.