FIPS DAILY ALMANAC: Monday, March 20, 2012
J. Charles | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 12:00AM 
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Rise and shine FIPS'ters, and welcome to your day! In national news: Starbucks is opening a juicery?! You know what that means. Pretty soon you're going to be able to get juice across the street from another juice place, which signifies the end of the universe? And in celebrity goss, this is exactly how I see Justin Bieber in my dreams.
ON THIS DAY IN BK HISTORY (1960):
I know this article is about all of NYC, rather than just Brooklyn, but honestly it's so quaint, I couldn't resist. According to the March 20, 1960 edition of the New York Times, more and more people where opting to remain "Unlisted" in the phone directory, causing woes for those directory assistance operators who had to tell customers there was no such party listed. Out of the 3,500,000 New York Telephone customers, 400,000 opted to be unlisted. An alarming increase from the 320,00 from reported in 1958. New York Telephone was "deeply concerned" about the increase, because unlisted numbers created more work for the accounting department. What they should be deeply concerned about is their inevitable extinction when they become NYNEX. Remember NYNEX?
[READ THE FULL ARTICLE FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ARCHIVES]
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