NYC seems genuinely out of fashion for the first time in my life, and maybe its history? Williamsburg is a punchline, Manhattan both above and below 14th St is just rich fuxors, seems like everything that used to happen in only NYC or LA now happens in LA or some other ascendant metropolis. I am not particularly worldly or sophisticated or mobile these days so I can't offer much more evidence, this is just my lay observation. What u think?
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
New York isn't dead.There are still lots of great things about this city.The things I value might not be the same things others value, of course.
― ian, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
https://saysomethingvague.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/lcd-soundsystem-t-shirt-losing-my-edge.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
no you're dead
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
okay
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
I mean, IDK, I was out in bushwick recently on a saturday night and it still seemed happening and teeming with young artsy cutting edge types brimming with energy. However it's been rough for a good amount of time now as far as being a city that young people without a bankroll or a professional job can live in, and that definitely cuts into the creative energy of the city some. I mean I don't even think the bronx offers the kinds of rents today that could be had 20 years ago in brooklyn.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
like if you mean "dead" as in "no longer can birth a 'scene' the way it could in the 60s/70s/80s/90s, that might be true just because rents are so high.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
I think that is what I mean. Although "scene" sounds a little tinny/reductive, scenes kind of matter. A city births a scene which creates stuff that matters.
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
Is Paris dead? How about London? Those cities are pretty expensive too, and have been for some time. New York is still a place that attracts ambitious young people, including artists, and I don’t expect that to change anytime soon.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
well yeah, I mean a scene as in the beats or the greenwich village folk scene or disco or no wave or whatever. Like the combination of cheap living and high density and educational and arts institutions and economic activity that allows for a scene that actually produces something of worth. Like I just don't think there are many corners of the city left where a bunch of musicians could live close to one another and work more or less full time on their music and pay rent waiting tables part time or whatever. And to the extent such pockets exist, they're scattered at the edges of the city instead of centralized.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
All cities are dead because culture travels faster through the Internet than it ever could geographically.
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
Rising rents making it hard for young people to live there unless they're being bankrolled is basically true for all major international cities now. Even Berlin's getting expensive these days.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
But hey, there are always aspiring artists with trust funds, so the city will never die
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
i don't know the deal w/rents in NYC but i find it funny when people come out to L.A. from there and rhapsodize about how comparatively inexpensive the rent is here.
― omar little, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
I don't go out much anymore, so maybe there's some lively cheap shit I'm missing out on.
It's also really hard for some people in late middle age (w/out a LUCRATIVE CAREER) to live here.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
I'm also old and have a family and work a lot, and I just don't really know what's happening anymore. When we went out in Bushwick, we saw some local DJs/electronic artists in a little club and it was absurdly packed and seemed pretty alive.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
I guess another thing I've noticed is that galleries tend to show artists from all over the US and world, and I'm guessing that's more true than it used to be. But that's also an internet-erasing-borders thing.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
― treeship 2, Tuesday, February 6, 2018 3:28 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is pretty otm
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
it's all about the rust belt, my friend
we eat the cheeses here too
they are artisanal
our cities are the envy of all, their livability is primo
― j., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
Here's how I think about New York, after my last visit there last summer:
New York is good and the only actual large city in America on the metric of everything existing there. Big cities are the ones where there is everything; you can tell Seattle is a small city because there are things that are not here.
New York is bad in that it smells of garbage. In the summer, hot garbage.
If more American cities grow to populations in the millions, New York will be more dead by comparison due declining uniqueness. Is this going to happen? Who knows.
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
i kinda want to leave, but i have a job i like okay and an unusually fortuitous living situation. there's no real reason for me to be here; i don't partake of the cultural opportunities available
it'll probably be the subway that finally drives me away
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
NYC: where if you can make it there as a successful artist, you can also have a successful time crowdfunding your medical bills.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
Telecommuting will finish it off.
― omar little, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:23 (six years ago) link
Less of a joke, not as dead as San Francisco?
Feels like people have been waiting for a rust belt/flyover city to take over since our traditional metropolises are more 'playground for the rich' than ever but I still don't hear kids looking to move to Columbus or Pittsburgh.
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
Have the media decided where the New Portland is?
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
There was a Tooze tweet recently, where he showed stats on how professional actors in the USA, vastly outnumber coal miners. I forgot by much, but it was significantly much.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link
I do hear murmurings about ppl aspiring to move to Pittsburgh, Detroit, Denver, a few others
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
According to @BLS_gov and @TheEconomist there are 51,200 people employed as coal miners in the US v. 785k in 1920. In 2017 there are more florists, actors and personal fitness instructors than miners. pic.twitter.com/m913tHokI2— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) January 2, 2018
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, February 6, 2018 6:27 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I hear rumblings about Pittsburgh now and then. Also tons of my friends moved to Philly over the years and it did seem to be producing bands at a good clip for a while.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
And no one talks about how many administrative assistant, secretarial and receptionist jobs were lost in NYC due to automation, because... women, a lot of woc. Breadwinners for their families. Fuck coal miners and their sooty tears.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
I’m moving back to new york soon bc of my job but it’s not a nice place to live.
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
I still have my apartment in Astoria. But I really don't want to go back. I dread having to deal with the subway.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
The subway is inexcusably unpleasant
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
i get more anxious/aggro in nyc in my old age. i don't know what it is. impatient. people bug me more. i think its just a case of the olds. i will always love the city though. in general. i've loved hanging out there my whole life.
it really is me being set in my ways. we stayed in brooklyn one summer with the kids and i seriously didn't want to leave the hotel room. get on a subway to go to a museum in manhattan? kill me now.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
Everything here is comically more stressful than any other place.
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
I car commute to the suburbs now and it's glorious to not be taking the subway anymore
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
Why is the ceiling always dripping down there?
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
Second and third tier cities could attract people by just showing how messed up the MTA is in their promo material.
I haven't lived in nyc full time for almost two years now. I miss it, but I really don't miss it. Just the thought of having to take the subway to work gives me anxiety.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:48 (six years ago) link
Part of me really regrets accepting another job here. As a teen my dream was living here but it’s not that fun.
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
NYC misses Yerac and Znarf
― ian, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
Fix the subway and get rid of GOP madness and I am there!
― Yerac, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link
fuck the subway, i drive most places now. and when i do take the subway it's in the middle of the day.sorry can't do anything about the GOP.
― ian, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
Do you have to go in and out of manhattan a lot or no?
― treeship 2, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
I remember taking the subway maybe 1-2 times a month when I worked in Williamsburg. It was the best. My tweety truck got sold like 3 years ago.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
i've honestly not experienced the subway horrors that many have, but i will say that the subway is nearly unusable on nights and weekends
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
just not enough trains
I want to get myself to love it again.
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:03 (six years ago) link
Not the subway—the city
The last job I had there, I almost had a breakdown every time I took the subway. I would sometimes using the plodding R so I wouldn't have to deal with the insaneness of the 4,5,6 during rush hour. That train really has the worst people to be stuck with in the tunnel.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:03 (six years ago) link
I do drive into the city regularly. Many mornings I drive in and drop my wife off at work and then drive home. It helps that we live near the Manhattan Bridge and her office is in chinatown. We also might drive in and park for any number of special events.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
I had the same commute. Bushwick to East Harlem. L to union square than the green line. Sometimes I found myself wishing I would just spontaneously die.
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
Interesting, ian. I don’t have too much experience driving in manhattan but when I’ve done it I didn’t have a good time.
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
Last time I tried to take the L train during rush hour I almost had a panic attack trying to change from the G at Metropolitan; just a slow moving mass of people slowly slithering thru the tunnel. Really grim.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link
I used to drive in the city all the time. It's fine. It was parking that was the issue.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
I miss DUMPLINGS! and pizza. And things not being closed on Sunday, Monday, half of Wed. or for whatever random holiday/break pops up.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
driving from Queens to Manhattan is not terrible, although sometimes you wind up having to park in a garage that costs more than whatever you're actually going to the city for.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
Agreed that the real issue with driving into the city is the parking. Ive gotten used to cruising the grid to find street parking; even if it's metered it's way better than paying a garage imo.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link
I commuted into the city every weekday for work from roughly March 2000-May 2016. Since May 2016, I've been into NYC maybe 20 times - roughly once a month, on average - and I don't miss it at all.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
Uptown is really nice and feels weirdly timeless, both the east and west sides.
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
new york is obv dead bc we are now just talking about the subway
subway complaints otm though it really is awful
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
I’m planning to move to east williamsburg soon — with friends — but maybe that isn’t my scene.
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
tbh i've never lived in ny, just visited a ton over the 15 years i lived on the east coast. i love visiting. there is a manic creative energy there, i enjoy being around all different kinds of people, and last time i visited (a month ago) it really struck me how globally, ethnically, socioeconomically diverse it STILL is
claims of a rust belt migration are overblown, though i do meet a fair share of folks who moved back to cleveland like i did after spending time in more expensive cities. there is a cool art scene in cleveland, there is stuff happening. but come on as cool and livable as rust belt cities are (and i do genuinely love them) they are provincial compared to a place like new york
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
i've been in NYC for eighteen years now and got through 9/11 and sandy evicting me and the 2003 blackout and am now old and fat and running into people I haven't seen in a decade on the way to the dentisti would likely be a great deal less patient with city life if i had to still be doing daily subway commuting but I've been freelance for about five years and while that comes with its own hassles, i recommend it. i would say one of the three major reasons i wanted to come here was because i hate cars and car culture and this was one of the few places you could get by without wheels... in the uber economy, this may be less true now?NYC has ridic good live music and theater and film and art and general performance and lectures every single night of the week and the food is greatyou can do all the above for a lot of money or for free/nearly free with a fair amount of due diligencethe rent remains too damn high but i remain amazed that the melting pot is still melting: every ethnicity/gender/class/creed is slammed together and we mostly all get along cheek by jowl without fucking killing each other somehow and that's a small miraclethere are days when i hate everybody and everything here but they're rarer than the days when I'm utterly floored by what the city has to offer.i <3 ny
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
also treeship comment about the internet is partially right to some extent those more clearly defined scenes are happening more online than geographically. everywhere has scenes though
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
Try living in London, there's a real shithole for you.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
they are provincial compared to a place like new york
you can get people to piss on you anywhere in america
― j., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
xp That’s what i’m talking about ulysses. I need to rediscover some of that love — that Whitmanian view of new york. That’s what makes stuff like the stress of commuting bearable. It’s hard to feel that sometimes with all the grotesque and out of control wealth. And also I am just bitter now
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
"Try living in London, there's a real shithole for you."
Don't talk to me about sophistication, Ive lived in Woolwich.
― calzino, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:48 (six years ago) link
The East River Ferry is sort of a life-changing alternative to subway commuting. You can spend an entire week without going underground ever. But yeah, to get back to the thread topic, RIP New York.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
new york city is dead but where in america isn't? america is a failing nation. we should all be trying to immigrate to asia!
― 龜, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link
I love NYC more when I am not in it. I don't like to shop, my favorite restaurants/bars are closed, the weather was getting to me. Cell phones/internet kind of ruined most aspects of going out (but that is true for a lot of places, just other places can have better manners about it). Tourism is killing a lot of cities. I say that as someone who is frequently a tourist to other places. But at least tourists from NY walk fast and try not to gawk.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 08:41 (six years ago) link
I've been spending a month in France and London. It's cold and grey. I would always choose them over NY because of all the ways they are different.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 08:44 (six years ago) link
There are still millions of young people living, drinking, making music, etc. in NYC, but apparently the city is dead because it's the wrong TYPE of young people?
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
Most of what I love about the place has gone away or I've been priced out of participating.
I hate it. And I can't leave.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
I've never thought about NYC as being for "young people".
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
it seems like it's exclusively for young people. most people get out of dodge when they have kids to avoid paying for private school.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
ok maybe not most people, but a lot of people. i think when i'm in my 40s i would probably rather live in a house in a less exciting place than a tiny apartment in the city. but idk, i haven't gotten there yet.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
Some of those young ppl won't be here much longer because there's nowhere affordable to live while you work nights and go to community college or start having kids before you have a "career." There are even a lot of young people coming back from college who can't afford to go back to the communities that they came from.
Anyway, whatever, I'm over it. My bf just bought a house in the Hudson Valley. I'm not moving up there with him but I am saving money for my own house somewhere there-ish or near-ish. I want a porch.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
i enjoy living a few miles away in NJ with the ability to either drive in, take a train, bus or ferry. Im not sure i could deal with living there day to day. i only have to go into the city for work a few times a month so any other time is for entertainment and that's cool with me.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
― Yerac, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 10:18 AM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Manhattan is for old people with yorkshire terriers.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
I think people are kidding mostly but there are a lot of seniors living in NYC. And not on the UWS either.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
It’s a little annoying when people plug their ears about the economic differences between NYC today vs 20 years ago because it’s pretty obvious that it’s become a much harder place for any non-monied person to live and undertake creative pursuits.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
i've been here for 14 years and i am definitely worn down to a nub. life here has defeated me. we are dangerously near to being served an eviction notice this month so i might have worse problems than nyc exhaustion soon. i've been stuck here mostly because my wife is very very rooted to the city, with a broad tree of good friends and useful contacts. We'll see how it goes.
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
If so, it's about time. It's had a good run, and maybe it should be grateful for all the time it's had as being the coolest hippest best biggest etc.
Maybe it should follow the example of straight white men: recognizing that it's had more than its share of glory, and gracefully stepping aside so that other entities might get a share of the spotlight every now and then.
― I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
nyc should step to the left, into NJ, or to the right, further onto long island
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
new york's alright if you like sex and phones
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
america being a country descended from farmers who went west for 40 acres and a mule, i think it's a wonder the NYC exists at all. there are really no alternatives to NYC infrastructure-wise, easy to see why people come here. nobody, the feds or the state is willing to invest in it anymore so it's going to die a slow death. america!
― 龜, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
I hear some other cities may be getting those things soon.
― I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
Everyone in Williamsburg pivoted to video
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
grass is greener lads
it depends where your priorities are and what your tastes are
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycR3K1IIf9U
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Twenty years, for me--my entire adult life. But I'm so tired, every day, all the time. Taking the subway is an exhausting chore and it doesn't even count as part of my exhausting workday. Even with a vehicle, it takes an hour to travel 8 or 10 miles bc of traffic and lights. The things I like about NY are now limited to my friends and my immediate residential community, and I can transplant/develop those things elsewhere. (PS I hate all music and shows and movies and bars and loud noises.)
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
NYC is the best if you are older and have no kids. You're not the weirdo, old person with no kids. You can get everything delivered, never have to drive, the doorman can do welfare checks if you have no family.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
No, that's Minneapolis that people hate and can't leave.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
I think I just happened to luck out by buying a super shitty Trump Sr. row house in Wburg in 2004 before I knew any better.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
xxxp Sure if you have $$$. Otherwise you can be any of the mobility-challenged seniors in my neighborhood who are confined to their homes bc they can't walk or climb stairs anymore, living alone or being checked on by one or two children, refusing to leave their homes but not able to care for them anymore. Two of them died in a house fire a few days after Christmas, right across the street from me. I worry about my next-door neighbor constantly but she's too stubborn to budge. I don't have children to take care of me, or own a home to die in, so I figure I'd better get started making something stick.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
Seriously tho, this ...
The things I like about NY are now limited to my friends and my immediate residential community, and I can transplant/develop those things elsewhere.
... is basically true of every major city. They're all fucking exhausting and at a certain point you age out of city life.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
NYC does have some advantages with kids -- I'm across the street from the playground, 5 min walk to the preschool, 20 min walk to the elementary school (and we still get a bus fwiw). The corner store has anything we need in a pinch and costco is accessible by a very short drive or even subway (although I'd hate to lug a load of costco groceries on the subway).
That said, we're in one of the last "affordable" neighborhoods with good schools and our monthly housing costs for an apartment are still comparable to a nice house in Jersey.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
well eventually i will be stored in my sister's house in CT. Maybe in ten years, maybe in 5 months.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
eventually i'll be stored in a cremation urn
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
I like living in a major city with access to everything but at the same time, when someone I know here cashes out there home they bought in 1998 (for 200k-ish) for 1 million and then they buy a massive place in Vermont or Carolina I get vv existentially bummed out knowing I moved into this city at the wrong time.
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
i'm planning to be sprinkled in the parking lot that used to be Shea Stadium
xp
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
I wish I could eat the pizza that my ashes char flavor.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
actually i was just thinking it'd be cheaper if i'm sprinkled over english bay
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
i think most americans want to live in a castle and want to live alone and be left alone. NYC is pretty antithetical to that unless you're the kind of person who can own at one 57.
― 龜, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
tbh i liked it and left
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
a new hope
https://www.wnyc.org/story/affordable-housing-plan-back-area-next-citi-field
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
the Midwest is gonna become cool again in like 15 years tops
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
Pittsburgh is already the next Seattle and Cleveland is probably the next Pittsburgh, all cities are inherently attractive places to live
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
Try visiting San Antonio sometime.
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
Upon returning to U.S. my wife and I wanted to give somewhere else besides NYC a shot. We had one kid at the time and were planning on a second and had sold our place in BK and knew we were now priced out for good. We decided on western MA as I had history/friends in the area. On the drive up from my parents' place in FL (where my car had been parked for a couple years) we got increasingly worried that even visiting friends in NYC would be too much—we missed it so much and were afraid of falling back under the city's spell and changing our minds about getting out. So we drove inland on the Thruway without stopping, right past it. That was fourteen years ago.
I would echo everything said upthread about the city being easier to soldier through on a daily basis when you are younger. (And about that ease returning in old age.) I used to enjoy waiting for the train to come, even late at night, so long as I had something to read. In my 40s I have less patience for all the city logistics—not just the subway but shopping for groceries more frequently, dealing with manic co-op or condo people, landlord whatever.
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
xxp it depends, some places have mountains/oceans/temperate climates and they have a certain cachet for people who like those things nearby
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
i think most americans want to live in a castle and want to live alone and be left alone.
― 龜, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:11 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I used to hate that American, suburban mindset — which is so wasteful and misanthropic and implicitly right wing — but now I think it makes sense and I want to live in the woods.
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
xxp I shld add that all the same I go down pretty frequently, for several years commuted once weekly to teach, and that to this day I feel more at home and more in sync and somehow more relaxed (?) in New York than I ever have in pastoral New England
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
western MA is dope, i have lived there and i loved it
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
xxp I was reminded that, even in high school, I used to say I wanted to be a hermit in the woods and not have to deal with people ... but I think that stemmed from still being in the closet
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
Yeah it's cool but really one of its advantages is its relative proximity to NYC xp
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
you have educational & cultural institutions and progressive attitudes of the city but there is abundant nature around. so many cool little towns too
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
I don’t know myself anymore.
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
I would like to visit western MA but y'know i don't drive. (Which is also why i can't live in other places, besides there not being jobs I could get.)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
sometimes i think about moving to the okanagan ya
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
like starting a little vineyard and just looking after my grapes and riding my horse
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
Xpost that is the other thing for us. K cannot drive so moving to any other city equals in her mind, perhaps correctly, isolation and loss of independence.
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
xpmarcos All of these things are true but there if you are not from New England there is something about the character, the social vibe—even in the hotbed of progressivism where I live—that makes for tough acclimation. What I miss most about the city is people, random exchanges, a sort of affection strangers have for one another, an ease of intercourse.
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
― treeship 2, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:30 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark
it's okay, you're returning to your native state of being. you probably grew up in a suburb didn't you? it's alright, for a few generations americans were able to achieve the dream of buying and living in their own house in the countryside, far away from other people, like the feudal lords of old, until the world ran out of oil and the massive famines and droughts caused by climate change.
― 龜, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
Morbs we now have a train that comes to directly to downtown Northampton. I'll show you all the yarns shops.
how many are there?
― Evan, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
137
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
i'll spin you a yarn or two
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
uh oh y'all are gonna make me miss Northampton
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
i miss northampton. i lived in that cool brick apartment building above the watering hole and northampton coffee. that town is so rad
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
it's pricy now afaik, though other western MA towns are less so i tihnk? easthampton & greenfield are still pretty cheap i think
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
i was there last month, went to the montague book mill which is one of the best little spots in western MA imo maybe all of new england
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
One of my favorite places to live was a small one bedroom above a bar and coffee shop in a college town in upstate NY. If one of us got a job offer there I'd move back to that town in a heartbeat tbh.
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
driving isn't really that difficult
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
Nah driving sucks
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
― omar little, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:57 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what town?
― Evan, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
i grew up in a driving city so i don't find it that bad. driving & listening to music is fun
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
there is basically no traffic in cleveland though so that helps
Driving would be difficult for me, I'd crash in the first week. Also a car would be a money pit.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
driving isn't really that difficult― mookieproofNah driving sucks― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby)
― mookieproof
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby)
These are not contradictory btw. It can be easy WHILE still sucking.
(It is also possible to not-drive in places other than NYC, but that's a whole nother topic)
― I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
gotta get morbs a bike. or rollerblades.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
car 100% money pit tho. can attest.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
i've been running a $300 monthly deficit lately w/out one, so...
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
― Evan, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 10:02 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ithaca!
Went back for an overnight visit a couple summers ago and it seemed like things had actually picked up a bit since I left way back in 1999.
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
Gotta say it's been somewhat gratifying to see all of these down-on-NYC posts. I'm one of those who left (six years ago) for the suburbs once kids arrived, and while I have no regrets or doubts about the decision I can't help but wonder sometimes what things would be like if we'd tried to make a go of it in the city. I do still come in every day for work and like HVIII said (I might as well just quote him here) "I feel more at home and more in sync and somehow more relaxed (?) in New York." Maybe not the relaxed bit -- I'm pretty relaxed at home too. I really really miss the easy access to live music and amazing food and non-blockbuster films. But I don't know if I'd be able to enjoy and take advantage of the city like I did in my 20s. And we have fantastic neighbors where we are now, we love the schools, and we can spread out a bit -- we're not on top of each other all the time. One of the nicest things has been how my relationship to the outdoors has changed. Particularly with a small child it felt like there was always some planning involved just to get a little fresh air; now I walk out to the backyard in my pajamas with my coffee without a second thought, and I can spend hours outside with the kids without worrying about what to do if someone gets hungry or has to go to the bathroom.
Walking around the city now it feels like it's less interesting than it used to be, but I hope I'm wrong about that and that's it's down to me being older and not in touch with where the cool things are happening. My wife and I try to bring the kids in at least once a month because we want them to know something beyond suburban living, and I hope it'll be a place where they'd like to live when they're out on their own. But I don't know if the kind of neighborhoods I lived in and hung out in and loved will exist in 15-20 years.
It really was an outrageously great city to live in during my pre-family days though.
― early rejecter, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
thanks buddy, but most of my lifestyle problems would be solved with a rich husband
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
let me know when you find one, i'll be your butler.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
fwiw I feel like this thread represents a massive turn either for the board or NYC sentiment generally -- it used to seem like any time you knocked NYC in these parts people would jump on you for being some kind of butthurt man-who-doesn't-like-bob-dylan type
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
Hate Bob dylan
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
we're just old now
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
Hipster replacements the next big thing
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
older and poorer
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
new york is pretty good though. still got gray's papaya and papaya king.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
the thing is that nyc is never not getting knocked by New Yorkers. everyone has nostalgia for one or more halcyon nyc's, even the wasteland versions. This is an especially rough period because real estate, gross income inequality, etc. but after the impending cataclysm it will enter a new phase again. The ghosts of the city linger and it will never be truly dead-dead
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
https://brokelyn.com/union-pool-hookup-homages-now-trending-twitter/
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
When I first moved to NY in my 20s I so naively thought it was the coolest thing that a lot of bars didn't have signs. Now I think that's super annoying.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
does underwater count as dead-dead?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
ha yes probably
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
Driving is easy but it's a constant mental drag. Driving in an urban area is just unpleasant and closed off.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
One of the worst experiences in my life was when I had to drive less than a mile in Boston from a hotel garage to the MassPike but maybe this is too off topic at this point
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
will take driving in nyc over boston any day of the week
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
I don't really want to live in NYC because my midwest town is ridiculously livable, and there are lots of great restaurants everywhere now (or here at least). It would theoretically be nice to see world-class jazz musicians on any night of the week, but some of those have moved here from NYC, and I don't go see them very often.
All I really pine after is the diversity and club culture (although how healthy even is that now, in terms of DIY-ish spaces?).
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, February 7, 2018 2:52 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh HELL yes
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
Driving in Boston made me feel insane, I encountered intersections without precedent in my 21 yrs of driving.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
it is the earthly worst!
i was saying to Doctor Casino after the FAP for Wins that maybe, just maybe, the slow march to ruin of the subway system might do what street crime once did for nyc rent prices
I don't really believe it though
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
I still don't hear kids looking to move to Columbus or Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh: they doColumbus: they should
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
there is a guy who has always hung out in front of the bodega on my block, a massive friendly guy named Frankie who apparently writes poetry, and once about ten years ago (when my part of williamsburg was still only somewhat gentrified) I heard him tell his friends "There's only one thing that can save this neighborhood. Street violence."
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
i never drove in Boston or NYC, for which i feel pretty fortunate. however i live in Los Angeles, which is a very different form of insanity. it's less a sense of constant panic or anger for me, it's more a subconscious murmur of apocalypses to come. no one will be able to get out of here alive.
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
i got to be a goddamned pro driving in boston and it is a point of pride now, these midwestern simpletons here don't know how to drive
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.theonion.com/mta-reminds-new-yorkers-they-can-fucking-walk-1822734848
― I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
columbus seems to be booming right now but cleveland is the cooler city imo
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
Pittsburgh is regional, though, right? There's not a lot of small-town teenagers from Georgia gunning for their shot in Pittsburgh.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
i would choose columbus because of the comix library and attached scene
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
I also have been hearing about Pittsburgh from artist-types who have lived in NYC at some point and are looking for cheap rent + a decent scene of some sort, some friends recently moved there.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
I have been to ballgames in Akron, Dayton, Cincy and Cleveland, but not Columbus
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
everything is regional, apart from nyc/chi/la and whatever the seattle of the moment is
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
yea migration to pittsburgh is regional, so are all the midwestern cities
i'm trying to find it right now but i'm not having luck - some migration patterns thing that showed which cities people were moving from to other cities, e.g. people moving to new york are coming from london, new delhi, etc, and people moving to denver are coming from san francisco, seattle, etc, and then people moving to cleveland are coming from like akron, canton, columbus. highlighting how global, national, or regional migration to different cities is happening
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
My last Union Pool hookup was Dec 14 2009, age 24, night before my GREs. He was a dashing and successful painter 13+ years my senior. The affair was on-off for 8 years. I missed a whole section of the GRE but still got into Yale. Blessings, Union Pool. https://t.co/47hWA5e8lx— Alana Massey (@AlanaMassey) January 31, 2018
this person sounds deeply obnoxious
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
xxp yeah, that was my initial thought w/ bringing up Columbus and Pittsburgh - nowhere else is even close to challenging NY's status whether it's dead or not. Other cities can aim for being the Austin of their tri-state area.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
Union Pool evokes a lot of memories for me but they're not particularly good or bad memories, it was just a place I happened to go a bunch of times and play a couple times. It seemed very central to a certain group of people that I was just sort of peripheral too by way of being in a band with a couple of them.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
i still wind up at union pool once or twice a month it seems. friends work there, friends have played there, it's fairly centrally located. never got laid cuz of union pool tho.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
is union pool closing or something?
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
not while there are hookups to come
i will go to the free shows in the yard in the summer (2x a year)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
i depend on my buddy who works there to let me know if something special is happening (sadly he did not text me about the free richard bishop show til a couple hours before start by which time I was buried in laundry or some other adult chore)
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
i saw some good old fashioned slutishness @ union pool when i was in ny a cpl months ago, it was pretty late and mostly empty, & right in the middle of the main room some girl was giving this total knob of a dude on a chair this, like, ultra drunken, showgirls-style lap dance. it was p hilarious and all the bartenders were taking selfies w/them in the bg.
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
nowhere else is even close to challenging NY's status whether it's dead or not
la has completely eclipsed/ultramurdered ny in all creative fields. ny still reigns supreme for salarymen
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
if i had a lot of cash i would definitely choose LA
― marcos, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/iTvkRhUZ3H— Joel Irwin (@irwindigital) January 31, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
i moved from nyc to la last year. both are great cities, but both could use an infrastructure week or two.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
You'd have to pay me a fuckload of money to live in LA.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
would you consider an extra bathroom and two spare bedrooms and a garage in lieu of the money?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
Well... probably not! We have a really nice apartment to be honest. Two bathrooms, one spare bedroom, big open space, don't mind street parking in our neighborhood.
I have only spent a little time in LA, but I think it would be tough for me to live there. The constant driving, all your friends being spread out, too hot.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
It feels too suburban, and the parts that feel walkable seem bad. Of course I'm sure there are plenty of nice neighborhoods, I've just never spent time in them.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
and also just that feeling of a city built where the land did not want a city to be...
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
I didn't find it too hot, and better transit than I expected. But not enough rep cinema.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
i think new york definitely took a massive blow when i left, because a lot of people find me very compelling, but yeah, that's a fair description of LA ian.
i work from home here so the driving affects me much less here, but fwiw when i drive to the kinds of places i go it takes me less time to get to them than it did in new york, unless those new york places were walking <10 mins walking distance. but i do miss walking.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Ian, where do you live now? Or is it the place you have been living in for a long time?
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
life seems great in LA, I have enjoyed visiting, and friends who have moved there in last ten years seem happy abt it, but it doesn't cohere for me as a "city"...like I never have a sense of a single, specific energy coursing through it, never the feeling that something happening in one part is relevant to any other...and this is the quality I most appreciate in a city, above and beyond the robustness of a given scene or whatever
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
Some friends moved out to LA a while back but didn't stay. I will always remember when they moved back, saying that the only place they saw their friends was by chance in the grocery store.
xp Yerac, I live in Clinton Hill, where I have lived for 6.5 years.
― ian, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
i think new york definitely took a massive blow when i left, because a lot of people find me very compelling
otm!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
Ok, the last apt. I remember was when we took Pete to the park nearby (Prospect Heights?). I like having small spaces because it doesn't take me long to clean and we literally hang out in the same 100 sq feet of space all the time.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
i find LA a very visitor-hostile place compared to new york, both in the sense that it's physically challenging and it's culturally inscrutable and inpenetrable to the average non-american because it's so unlike anywhere in, say, europe. when i have family over it's a ton of work and they don't like it anyway. i can imagine that feeling persisting for a while, maybe years, when you first move here. i moved here with a local which helps.
ha xp!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
i miss the compelling caek too
I've alao been told i should stay somewhere besides Hollywood next trip. I understand things actually go on Downtown now.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
Well... probably not! We have a really nice apartment to be honest. Two bathrooms, one spare bedroom, big open space, don't mind street parking in our neighborhood.I have only spent a little time in LA, but I think it would be tough for me to live there. The constant driving, all your friends being spread out, too hot.― ian, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 1:04 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkIt feels too suburban, and the parts that feel walkable seem bad. Of course I'm sure there are plenty of nice neighborhoods, I've just never spent time in them.― ian, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 1:05 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ian, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 1:04 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ian, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 1:05 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i feel like we live in the exact right neighborhood for us, close to good friends (or close enough) and one block from our son's elementary school. we're even in a bit of a valley, so we're not baking in the sun all day during the summer. there's even a vv good bookstore nearby, and movie theaters. you can walk! it's very comfortable right here. but a lot of the trendy hoods I don't really dig. I didn't like Silver Lake and Highland Park isn't really my "thing." I think if i was coming to town now, I'd aim to live in downtown or Little Tokyo.
My issue I guess is I've never quite felt at home here, I'm not really a big fan of the climate and eventually it'll be a city only a war boy could love. And really the real estate prices are just depressing for us, a family trying to scrape by and stick around to help out my wife's parents.
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
i also like to run around strange cities with paper maps in hand, which usually involves getting lost for 30 minutes here and there. I was wandering among all these nice houses in Los Feliz a few summers back with nary a human in sight, and was sure someone was gonna call the cops.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
That Judd Apatow show "Love" made me think that LA could be ok. I don't think I have outright ever enjoyed being there though.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
My friends in LA who hate living there say they don't want to move to NYC because everyone in NYC thinks they are too smart.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
tbf we are pretty smart
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
i stayed in echo park when i went to LA (at a friend of a friends') it was really pretty; i love cities on hills and think i disagree with 'a city built where the land did not want a city to be'. however the spread out driving around thing totally sucks. nyc always rules, although i always wonder why so many people who move there seem disapointed
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
everyone i know who has lived in new york moaned a lot about their commutes. i guess it can be quotidian things like that that make or break something for you
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
I have enjoyed my couple visits to LA, I even walked and used transit during one of them. It’s unlike anywhere else that is for heckin sure.
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
A lot of women I know had a terrible time dating in NYC and had to leave to find partners.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
I have had a terrible time, and stopped looking. Cheaper.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
I feel like I can maybe do two years here then I’ll need to figure something else out.
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
A lot of women I know had a terrible time dating in NYC and had to leave to find partners.― Yerac, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 5:07 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this was an accepted truth when I lived there briefly in the late 90s. Wonder how far back it goes.
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:33 (six years ago) link
reading these responses makes me feel like i like NYC for different reasons than everyone else. i like living here because i like the density! i like that walking is part of my daily routine and that most everything i need is within a 15 minute walk of where i live, and for everything else there's amazon. subway sucks but not so bad for me because i don't take it during peak rush hours. being around people in general is good, i think, even complete strangers. it's good to know other people exist and also i'm an inveterate people-watcher. i like that when it's 70 on a summer evening i can go out an walk about an hour without any particular aim. what kills me about suburban living is how deterministic it is, you drive from your house to the supermarket and back and all in between is is a bunch of grousing at other cars, stopping at the train tracks. grocery shopping can be a pain, i acknowledge, i'm pretty close to getting a little grocery cart.
the artist communities, bars, are not something i'm really even aware of. probably the movie scene is what i'd miss most if i were to leave but even now i rarely go to any movies, as morbs knows, because most movies are longer than 89 minutes for some reason, and in DCP.
― 龜, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
no, everyone is just moving to queens now
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
xp tbh all of those reasons are exactly why I loved visiting NYC and want to return soon, but the state of the subway did make me sad
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
i like that when it's 70 on a summer evening i can go out an walk about an hour without any particular aim
dan thank you for living my nyc flaneur fantasy <3
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
I would say that most people in NYC love that they walk a lot and can walk anywhere.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
read that as dad xp
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
i love walking in every city but nyc walking that's a whole other level
― flopson, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
I really don't know how anyone is going to be able to open any kind of new business in a commercial space without some wack monolithic investors.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
― flopson, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 5:38 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark
<3
also +1 on the city being a lot less compelling now that caek's gone!
― 龜, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
learn another language and leave the USA, it’s a challenge but the satisfaction is worth it. if you have kids they’ll be bilingual in like 3 months
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 22:46 (six years ago) link
Dublin guys Dublin
I can attest that Dan likes to walk and look at ppl
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
i've lived in los angeles six years now
when i first moved here everything did look suburban and 3/4 of it look like a third world country, which i've gotten used to now
and it took me a while to know where the part of the county was that feels like a proper city and then i moved there, lived there for a few years and good lord it was slightly horrifying
nyc never appealed to me though and but i never "got it"
i do miss vancouver a lot, mostly because all my pals are there and it's my base, i'm glad i'll be moving back at the end of the year if everything goes well *knock on wood*
but los angeles is a weird place. like you can find anything and everything and that's what makes it cool and horrific all at the same time. it's got these "underground" worlds (plural) that reminds me of tokyo
and if you're caught staring a little too long you'll get shot which is kinda cool because staring is not nice (something vancouver can learn from)
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
i'm visiting again in a week. I still love it there.
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
i've actually really learned to love los angeles and it has a very special place in my heart now
everyone i know basically hates it though
but i love all the different cultures and parts of the city, like it's no big deal if you need to visit compton, it's not like "oh shit COMPTON" which is what a lot of people outside of la feel
one sad thing is los angeles is so segregated by race, so for all its diversity, there might as well not be any but i guess this exists pretty much in most very diverse cities
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
i was in vancouver last month and everyone there was so friggin nice. ime they display the warm, welcoming attitude usually misattributed to american southerners (usually by southerners themselves)
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
stay a little longer and you'll change your mind
― infinity (∞), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
you make your own new yorkfor me, landing between Prospect Park and Greenwood Cemetery was such a blessing. Both are complex outdoor spaces, heavily landscaped and considered; one is absolutely jammed full of people above ground and the other is virtually empty of living people. Both are wonderful options to reset from the city's chaos. I try to get to both at least once a week and that helps keep me balanced. that and the medicine.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
Seems like NYC is not dead. thanks for confirming, everyone
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:55 (six years ago) link
everyone is just moving to queens now
I have noticed this a little bit, but I'll prob notice it a lot more soon since the L tunnel shuts down next year
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:56 (six years ago) link
no chili, it's like when the electrical energy is still pulsing thru a corpse
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:58 (six years ago) link
I'm a queens booster but you still need like middle class income to live here, other than maybe Jamaica.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 8 February 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
i don't think new york is dying as much as i am.
it is however meeting a lot of less interesting cities half way.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 8 February 2018 03:33 (six years ago) link
What’s it like in Mexico City these days
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 8 February 2018 06:45 (six years ago) link
Friend's little brother has lived there for a few years, loves it. Last I heard he made enough to live playing online poker for a few hours a day but he might be doing something else with that degree in applied mathematics now.
― louise ck (milo z), Thursday, 8 February 2018 07:17 (six years ago) link
I loved from Brooklyn to Queens in 2015. I was really hoping for Jackson Heights or Sunnyside but landed in Astoria.
― Yerac, Thursday, 8 February 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
i used to live out in jersey city, walking distance from man alive.... i have nostalgia for that neighborhood, though i think MA's neck of the woods was a bit rougher. didn't some guy get shot in that bar out front of your place?anyways, i miss hangin' with you and your wife in those halcyon pre-kid days.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
friend moved there a couple years ago and loves it. i'm making plans to go visit soon
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
I didn't read this whole thread because I missed it.
Williamsburg is a joke but greenpoint and bushwick and ridgewood and still "cool" by most people's standards.
It's still expensive but there are cheap ways and places to live and people willing to spend 75% of their salary on rent and creative trust fund kids oh so many trust fund kids.
There's cool pockets in manhattan, particularly lower east side to chinatown. Just go to Commend or 2 Bridges.
I've lived in Woodside Queens for 12 years and still pay less than 2K for a large 2 bedroom apt in a nice building, plus 175$ for parking in the garage underneath, take that.
But people still move here to make it. There's no competition in the states other than LA. We still have the best food, the most record stores and just the most everything, except for decent vietnamese food.
It's the same as it's always been, scene-wise, sure it's not a packed Max's Kansas City or empty lot show in Williamsburg but the amount of kids doing techno/electronic music type stuff through bushwick and DJing and whatnot, still is overwhelming. Still more things going on in a single night than any other american city has in a month.
But half of those things are empty and lame.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
i moved out 11 years ago. two kids now. i can't fathom the school situation?? isn't it sort of apocalyptic? primary schools in london are largely excellent, even in deprived boroughs.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
Is there decent indian food? I've never been able to find it.
― Yerac, Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
in london??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
i'm no expert but off the top of my head you've got rasa in stoke newington, tayabbs in whitechapel, chor bizarre in mayfair
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
I found NYC quite depressing when I was there last spring for the first time in many many years. So many empty storefronts, etc. Obv there are great things about it that will always be there, and some of those great things are things I appreciate more now that I'm older than I did when I was younger (ie: I'm there with my kid so I'm not looking for vibrant nightlife, music clubs, etc so much now) but it seemed like a categorically different city than it used to be.
― akm, Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
London on the other hand I still adore, find vibrant and intensely enjoyable, look forward to being there every year. I'd sooner move there than anywhere else.
― akm, Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
decent indian food exists just not at the most obvious places in jackson heights. Like some of the smaller more random places or curry hill or out in richmond hill. Indian food in jackson heights has been largely replaced by nepali food.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
i stayed in greenpoint over new year's, and what surprised me was how little had actually changed? i think of new york as growing and changing too fast, favorite restaurants closing within months, but greenpoint just kinda looked like it always had, maybe a couple of new bars, a new restaurant or two, but in general it was the same old weatherbeaten vibe, everything half run-down, the same inscrutable interlocking latticework of jealously guarded private property honeycombed within networks of utterly begrimed common land
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
huh
greenpoint is massively overhauled to my eye
the storefronts are physically the same (weatherbeaten for sure) but the businesses are all 'owl & butterchurn' twee shit now
and driving down manhattan ave is now comically hair-raising, like walking a hippo through the eye of a needle
the winos remain as scary as before though.
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
i didn't walk down manhattan ave - i never took a step in the direction of bedford actually, maybe this is why
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, February 8, 2018 10:20 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
In some ways the schools are probably much better than they were 10-20 years ago, but any decent one is going to be really crowded. My daughter's school has had a growing waitlist for K every year, and they've managed to get everyone in each year so far but eventually they'll hit a breaking point.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
And probably the only thing keeping it from being worse is the limited amount of buildable land in my neighborhood, so there aren't tons of new rentals and condos springing up everywhere like in LIC. It's mostly just turnover from old to young that's caused the increase in school population.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
Sorry, that was an xpost asking about decent Indian food in NYC. My number one thing to do while in London is to eat a curry.
― Yerac, Thursday, 8 February 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
Best indian in the area is Hicksville Long Island, Edison and Iselin and Jersey City NJ, I think it follows a standard development as certain immigrant groups move out to the suburbs you have to follow to get the good stuff. That's why the best stuff in Queens now is Tibetan/Nepali, and there are literally hundreds of places.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 February 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
I was telling Virginia Plain that I feel bad that I have never had a momo.
― Yerac, Thursday, 8 February 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
they are delicious
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 8 February 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
I have a friend forced to move his family to either New York or London for work. He's lived in both places before, but London is leading on pretty much every front, from schools to cost of living (!) to commute to parks, benefits, etc.
The last time I was in New York, about a year ago, I never left Brooklyn and I guess never felt the need to. I used to be (years ago) half jealous of New York exclusivity, of the stuff they have and get that no one else has or gets, but I really think that's increasingly overblown. It's just so dense and such a media hub that its identity gets aggressively projected, but it's pretty rare these days that I kick myself for not being there, besides not seeing all my friends and stuff. Fortunately, it costs a bit over $100 to fly there, so: problem solved!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I would say London too.
― Yerac, Thursday, 8 February 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
my secret conservative idea is that if you have all these cultural events and cool things there all the time you don't appreciate them. poor yokels who get one really good concert a month in their whole area, they appreciate that show
― mh, Thursday, 8 February 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
i think for people who aren't like the heroic ulysses, that is correct
also i am always so broke bc rent that i can't go to most of things that do look awesome to me (it's a shame that classical music is my staff of life and i live here and i can only go to free events)
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 8 February 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
Which is the irony. As my pal pointed out, no one lives in NY to save money, they live in NY to take advantage of all NY has to offer. Which costs money, which leaves you with no money and therefore unable to take advantage of all NY has to offer.
My theory was that cell phones broke New York. In a city where there are so many things happening in so many places at once, it just perpetuates this sense of ... aloofness? Maybe not that word. People constantly looking for something else to do as soon as they get to the first thing because they know there is something else going on and it's easy enough to get there. Vs. Los Angeles, which requires a certain commitment, due to travel times. Chicago is obviously a huge city with tons to do, but I don't get the same perpetual motion machine vibe.
Anyway, NY, I know lots of people who just don't go out, and of those that do, many seem to be always en route to or from something else.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
xp a large part of my job is to convince people to come see very good free and cheap entertainment and it's hard as hell to do! people are tired all the time.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 8 February 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
But there's also a ton of competition! It's a vicious cycle. All I know is that I have friends who have the same job in NY that my wife does here, and they're done by 8 or 9 while my wife is heading home between 5 and 6 (at the latest)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
People constantly looking for something else to do as soon as they get to the first thing because they know there is something else going on and it's easy enough to get there. Vs. Los Angeles, which requires a certain commitment, due to travel times.
For people who can't afford cabs, the disintegrating subways are making travel time a factor here too.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
Yes. It's always been this way. You can get bored and jaded, or you just think "eh I'll skip this lifechanging event because I can always go next time. When I used to go elsewhere it always blew me away how excited people were. I DJ'd a Making Time party in Philly and it was so huge and it was like THE event. Another time I came down to DC to DJ a Rapture show at the Black Cat and there were like 4 events going on there with all these different scenes but like, all the kids were out at that one venue that night. In New York it's easier to keep to your own little scenes because there's so much going on.
My theory was that cell phones broke New York. In a city where there are so many things happening in so many places at once, it just perpetuates this sense of ... aloofness? Maybe not that word. People constantly looking for something else to do as soon as they get to the first thing because they know there is something else going on and it's easy enough to get there.
Nah, this used to be worse pre-cellphone. Back when everything was still in manhattan you'd just go from bar to bar to club everyone hopped around. Now things are more spread out, you're less likely to hop from like PS1 to Nowadays or something. Though Uber/Lyft certainly works, esp for the trust funders.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
The internet does have the weird effect of letting you just parachute into any scene you want with no prior knowledge. Pre-internet I never would have found BNSC and been able to show up on a random saturday night as probably the oldest person there by 5-10 years. I still suspect people largely do stuff in the immediate neighborhoods around them though, bc cabs are expensive and the subway takes forever
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
is NYC that bike-friendly? seems like it'd be the best way to get around
― marcos, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
I don't know, I used to use Flyer magazine like that. Or even Time Out. Just look at the listings and go over to any event that seemed interesting. But I was fearless (and lonely) in my early 20s. I've never even been to Bossa Nova.
I do assume unless you can handle lyft, people aren't hitting as many spots as they used to, but usually two. When I've dj'd places in bushwick it used to be common that everybody would show up at like 2 am. So like the kids would go out in manhattan or some trendier fancier place but then go home and end up at Tandem.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
I'm trying to remember the pre-cell phone/internet era. I seem to recall always going out for specific reasons to specific places, often as a group, and if we went anywhere else it was as a group as well, perhaps meeting up with others. But the post-internet years, I get a real ships passing in the night feeling, of people popping in for a few then vanishing again, off to the next thing. But that could be because people are indeed staying closer to home, which makes popping in and out easier, or more convenient. Vs., say, borough-hopping.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
Chicago is obviously a huge city with tons to do, but I don't get the same perpetual motion machine vibe.
I was basically raised in and around Chicago and it remains my favorite city but I was just amazed the first time I went to NYC and felt the massiveness, and it was like this living thing. It's not larger geographically than Chicago but when you're driving up on it, just the entire scope of Manhattan and the boroughs is another level vs Chicago's more central energy that extends out, slowly lessening as you move outwards.
I don't think Chicago has less to do and I appreciate how it's easier to navigate, the beauty of the downtown, the food, the relative affordability....but otm about the perpetual motion machine thing.
― omar little, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
My year in NYC also saw me mostly confined to Manhattan and damn it's amazing how I felt that I was set, I could just stay there and hang out on that island forever and never even go to the other boroughs. I think I went to Brooklyn once tbh.
― omar little, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
Things were just so much closer when it was all about Manhattan, and that's something that's definitely lost. When everything shifted to Brooklyn, it was still much tighter around the Bedford L, but now like I said above, it's spread out.
maybe kids are rocking it like that in bushwick now, I'm just not a kid and I have a car.
But when I was in my 20s and the east village was still cool, and the meatpacking district was kicking in, I don't know, manhattan in the 70s/80s/90s/early 00s is probably hard to beat regarding the density. There were nights where I'd to to so many different places.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
sounds exhausting
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
but we got bike lanes! i have friends who bike interborough and swear by it. one's an ilxor!
i'd new york to get dockless bikeshare hehe
― 龜, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
there was definitely sort of pre-gig, gig, party and afterparty and the farthest you'd need to go was like chelsea to LESi remember when southpaw opened i was like whoa new paradigm
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
I hadn’t realized how bad the nyc subway decay was, reading about it here and elsewhere today. dang, that’d be a main reason to live there imo, not needing a car. I love not having to drive so much (haven’t had a car in four years bc it’d be nuts here). will never live in nyc but it’s really the only USA place you can live a full adult life without a car, or at least used to be
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
Believe it or not, there are other places you can lead a full adult life without a car.
― Jeff, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
I don't know, I've never experienced a big city in the US that was a compatible with non-car living.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
I really like Samudra in Jax Hts for Indian, and I’m trying Boishaki in Astoria this weekend.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
I'm not sure if we went to Samudra when it first opened or if it was a different place, it was a bit of a revolving door for a while. Delhi Heights, though popular with the white people, actually has some really good dishes. Never heard of Boishaki, looks good. There's a place near me called Ruma's that's was surprisingly good bengali...surprisingly because it's always empty and when we went the woman seemed really confused that we wanted food. But it seems popular.
Whoah Boishakhi's photos on yelp look amazing.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
We kinda stick with seamless too much these days, not easy to get out esp for dinner, with an 11 mo old. But Opal loves Momos. Have you been to Dawas in woodside? Kinda new american hipster stuff on one side from chef, other side sort of refined but still super tasty himalyan stuff from her chef father. No fusion, but both sides are great.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
the brooklynization of the world + the internet is what i meant when i say new york isn't so much dying as meeting a lot of less interesting places half way.
it wasn't my experience that travel times for either day to day living and getting things out of the city are that much larger in LA than in new york.
like anywhere you get most things in a 15 minute radius. beyond that is a colossal pain in new york as much as LA, at least for me. yeah, it can take 90 minutes to get from where i live to ... venice or something. but i go to venice about as often as i went to fort tryon when i lived in brooklyn (also 90 minutes).
buried lede for me though: we decided to move the LA like the week we found out a baby was on the way. obviously people manage it, but the sheer logistics of a baby in new york were terrifying to us.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 8 February 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
mustang is my spot for nepali
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 8 February 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
baby isn't much of a problem for us, but it takes me 40 minutes to an hour to get from queens to flatiron for work and that's some MTA subway bullshit.
mustang is great. Have you been to Woodside Cafe on bway and 65th? They have this thing called Chatamari which I've never seen anywhere else that I'm obsessed with. Some kind of rice crepe with ground chicken and black-eyed peas cooked into it and an egg broken on top usually cooked hard and then a goat curry covering it all.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 February 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
Ive been a non-car-owning adult in Seattle for over 5 years now! And we barely have any trains at all.
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 8 February 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
I also didn't own a car when I last lived in Northampton MA tbh but I was unemployed
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 8 February 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
You don't need a car if there's nowhere you want to go, is the thing.
(nearly) all my Indian meals come from Kinara in Pk Slope
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
Re: Los Angeles, the big difference is there are things you really *want* to do, reasons people move to LA for in the first place, like the ocean (or yeah, Venice, Santa Monica, Malibu, etc.), the mountains and the desert, that take a long time to get to, and only by car, and typically in traffic. Vs. something like Fort Tryon, which I just had to google (looks neat!).
Amazingly, I know an increasing number of people in NY (mostly Brooklyn and Queens) with kids. I have no idea how they do it. Kids without a car seems really hard to me.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 February 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
I have a car shhhhhh
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 8 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
when i see 2 to 3 family members teaming up to hump a military grade stroller sideways down the subway stairs, as a queue of blocked impatient randos accumulates upstream of them, I just think no X 1000
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 8 February 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
lived in NYC for 28 years: '89 to 2012 in the EV, and since then in Ditmas park/ Kensington (Morbius said at some point that he lives nearby). While living there in the 2000s, I began to hate Manhattan so much that going to visit girlfriends and most of my friends in Slope area was incredibly refreshing, And now living past the Slope and on the bleeding edge after which beards and warby Parkers are unheard of is so different from my life in the EV that it seems like I have moved very far away.
I never thought I wanted to have a baby here and would move before then. But my wife's job is good, so we stayed when my daughter was born last december. We had a car because I thought we would need it and from this part of brooklyn to coney island, everyone has a car and can easily deal with it.
Then this past October, said car caught fire with me and the baby inside on the BQE right before the Kiucsyncki (however the fuck you spell it) Bridge and soon totally immolated. a subaru, safest car on the market. It's really something to walk around on the breakdown lane of the BQE, cradling your infant daughter while other motorists scream curses at you. Well before that, I had long thought that an area where NYC still has a so-called edge of dickishness is with drivers and driving.
― veronica moser, Thursday, 8 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
Xpost: men with beards in Borough park and Midwood are of a different stripe than what I refer to above
― veronica moser, Thursday, 8 February 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
veronica, i'm kensington; where at?
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 9 February 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
oh wait, we've done this i think
Man I am sorry about that automotive ordeal that sounds fucking awful and scary
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 February 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
fwiw the oceans (or the beach towns) are not something i particularly want to go to. they're certainly not why i moved to LA they're just not a part of life for me in LA (or most of my acquaintances), in the same way that the beach (or tbh, manhattan) wasn't for me in new york. i go to them when i have visitors, in the same way i went to midtown when i had visitors in new york. if you've moved to LA for the ocean (or a job in santa monica or whatever), you live near the ocean.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 February 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, February 8, 2018 3:33 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fwiw the new trend in cool parties is to have 0 social media presence and spread only by word of mouth. in part a response to police busting afterhours spots & underground venues, in part response to this
― flopson, Friday, 9 February 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
i think this happens everywhere. or at least, it did in montreal. which is p dense so i guess yeah. a friend in my early twenties was infamous for a zeligish ability to be at every part in the city every night, pronouncing each of them 'dead' within minutes of arrival
― flopson, Friday, 9 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
oh god I both understand that because the ability to hop around until you find something that is great is justifiable when you can do itbut some people just do that every time, like a night out means just rotating to a new location every X minutes until bar close
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 02:08 (six years ago) link
And now living past the Slope and on the bleeding edge after which beards and warby Parkers are unheard of is so different from my life in the EV that it seems like I have moved very far away.
This very much describes where I live. The only vintage clothing I see in my neighborhood is worn by central asian jews without any fashion intent.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 9 February 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
I mean not literally, but there is maybe like 1 remotely hipstery or trendy person for every 50 of those.
kensington is newly hipster infiltrated and i'm aware i'm part of the problem but it's mostly families of the type that can't afford park slope or who have been here for a long time or (more commonly) folks who own. living across the street from a school, between a graveyard and park, just far enough away from the main drags where nobody much drives through and on a block where all the businesses close at ten is a tremendous blessing.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 9 February 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
Since this is the most active New York thread I'll just ask here...
A bit hard to describe what I'm looking for. Recommendations for calm-ish bars or venues playing good music at non-deafening levels. The kinds of places where you could sit and drink and read or write at the end of a day of traipsing around the city. Places playing ambient, drones, minimal techno, minimal anything really.
I know about Nowadays in Queens which looks promising.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 9 February 2018 08:46 (six years ago) link
seattle was quite walkable but not as much as NYC. NYC not a patch on basically any european/UK city tho obv
― ||||||||, Saturday, 10 February 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
I can't with Nowadays. It's outdoors, right? You pay money to get inside the fence and then sit outside and then you pay money for the food and drinks? Edited to add: I guess they have an indoors now.
Anyway. Biking is so great in New York if you're not spread out over the entire city! Like between the LES and North Brooklyn, or getting around within a few miles' span. Not as much when you're in, say, Gowanus, and talking about going to the city at 1am, like some fashionable people I overheard last weekend on the sidewalk. I have so many great memories of riding between Crown Heights and Wburg over the years, mostly to meet ilxors tbh.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Saturday, 10 February 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
Then I got a scooter and basically stopped biking. I miss it sometimes but the scooter life is so amazing. You can get places not-sweaty!
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Saturday, 10 February 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
i wanna get an e-bike except dickhead de blasio is intent on outlawing them for some reason
― 龜, Saturday, 10 February 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
Nowadays has an indoors and a full soundsystem and kitchen and everything.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
(of course I haven't been though)
There was no cover when I was there.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
e-bikes are being subsidized this year by my city, up to 600 euros! but the new docked bikeshare bikes (as opposed to all the new non-docked bikeshare bikes all over the place like gobee & ofo, which interest me too) are e-bikes so that might suffice for me. at least for side-ish streets, I'm not gonna bike on well-trafficked streets here, because they're pretty narrow yet people find ways to fit multiple lanes of traffic.
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
ofo needs its own thread. I think they might be the locusts the bible refers to in revelation
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Saturday, 10 February 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
Nowadays is very nice imo and feels hip without being vibey or exclusionary at all. I haven’t been since they added the indoors though, apparently.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Saturday, 10 February 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
^^^ gets it
― j., Saturday, 10 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
Relevant to this thread.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
Also relevant, I hope:Redd's Roster of Restaurants of the Old Weird New York
― Psmith, Pharmacist (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
No blight is as depressing as rent blight :(
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
belatedly: the subways may be hell but so far the buses are not, at least not in my area
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Sunday, 11 February 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link
visiting nyc last year I was able to walk or hit up the subways for everything I wanted to do, mostly work in midtown manhattan but stayed in the east village for a bit and travelled to brooklyn for a show. the subway system routes were ok but the state of them made me sad, as if the system was there for what I wanted but my needs were scorned
― mh, Sunday, 11 February 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
the bus system is not in freefall but it is in real trouble - ridership is in decline despite population growth, and mostly people seem to be chalking it up to the unreliability of service, which in turn is largely due to the difficulty of implementing any major changes which would actually fix things, like truly dedicated bus lanes and signal prioritization. anecdotally I've had a ton of issues in the last six months to a year with late and bunched buses.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 11 February 2018 03:34 (six years ago) link
to compare again, the extent to which London public transport is great is basically the extent to which its buses are great. dedicated bus/bike/taxi lanes on most big roads, the congestion charge obv. relatively nice vehicles. you rarely need to wait more than 6 or 7 minutes. it doesn't feel low-rent to take a bus, it feels normal
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 February 2018 11:23 (six years ago) link
The Paris bus system is also very good, matching what you said about London’s. I take it as often as I can over the metro because I’m lazy about stairs; this is why its ridership leans older than the metro’s.
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 11 February 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
I mean, I've never taken the bus during morning rush hour because it already takes long enough to get to work via the subway, but I take the M4 and M5 all the time coming home and compared to the 1 they're both absolutely delightful
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 12 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:37 AM (four days ago)
Jon I don't know how long you've been with your partner or where she's lived but you used to be in Seattle! you can walk almost anywhere, or catch a bus to where you can walk to the other bits. the tram has opened up a few neighbourhoods but will take another decade and drivers aging out of the population (so that funding can go back to transit) to be as transformative as it should be already.
I doubt any city in the world could beat NYC for film.
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 12 February 2018 08:14 (six years ago) link
We’ve been together 14 years, so no, not stretching back to my Seattle days. But you make a good point. Manageable size, good transit, car not needed, pre-built friend pool due to comics scene. Is it much cheaper than nyc/sf these days though?
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
Rent has been climbing like wild for years but the trend may be finally leveling off. Unlike San Francisco there are actually new apartment buildings being built, though we still haven’t got the political will to start bulldozing single family homes.
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
Doesn’t Seattle have more working cranes on high rise construction sites than any city in the us?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-has-most-cranes-in-the-country-for-2nd-year-in-a-row-and-lead-is-growing/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Sarus_Crane_%28Grus_antigone%29_at_Sultanpur_I_Picture_151.jpg
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 15 February 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
*Flintstones voice* eh, it's a living
― Number None, Thursday, 15 February 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
When a man is tired of London etc.
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
A little bit of apocalypse that doesn't involve the subway, for once
http://gothamist.com/2018/07/19/exploded_steam_pipe_asbestos.php
Exhibit C: there is LITERALLY a man on a @CitiBikeNYC commuting to work out of a plume of steam in this video https://t.co/eCLCizPdXC— Rebecca (@RebeccaEgler) July 19, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
All, Further update: Please advise your employees to steer clear of the area on 5th Avenue between 19th St and 22nd St. due to environmental concerns related to the material that was dispersed from the explosion. Office of Emergency Management is currently involved in the cleanup and environmental testing to ensure there is no additional danger. Thank you,
Anthony
― dan selzer, Thursday, 19 July 2018 23:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.villagespoke.com/2019/05/03/a-city-for-the-rich-built-poorly-the-construction-of-hudson-yards/
http://i0.wp.com/www.villagespoke.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/4.29.19_HYardsBroken7.jpg
You get the distinct sense that you’re walking through a computer rendering rather than a real place. Aesthetic is prioritized over function everywhere you go. It’s easy to get the feeling that the faceplates of brand-new signs popping off their fixtures were simply pixel-off details unnoticeable in a 100:1 scale virtual world.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
Considering the scope, ambition, and execution of this project as a whole, pointing out an "overextended saw cut" in the ground seems ridiculous
― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
https://thebaffler.com/latest/fuck-the-vessel-wagner
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
From some points on the Jersey side, the view of the Empire State Building is totally blocked by Hudson Yards
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link
In so many ways New York is a great city that has embodied what is best about America, particularly multiculturalism and innovation. (Never perfectly, of course). It’s where many generations of my family grew up, and most of them are buried out in Green-Wood Cemetery. However, the city also kind of sucks and is dumb now.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
There is so much luxury housing development, all over the place.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
despite President deBlasio's promises
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
I feel like the point of the above articles is, if you're going to do seamless luxury, do it right (i.e. the beautifully alien Oculus). Which as a point is.. okay I guess. But maybe we could forget about seamless luxury altogether?
Anecdotally I walked past the Barclays Center a couple of months ago and was astonished at how jank-ass it looked
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
i can't imagine going anywhere near hudson yards, but fuck the oculus
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
i even wrote an article once about how stupid the oculus was
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
It's oppressive even to walk from the subway to the PATH there
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
how many people fall on these stairs every day?
https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2016/09/08/89a46d4b-2070-4fb8-9bcd-39b435dc69f0/resize/620x465/b3933a85612b51f6ee02f60ea41e57fc/daniel-jones-steps-from-path-trains.jpg
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
I hate the way that thing is wedged in there, w evidently zero regard for any of the space around it
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
i kind of like the barclays center though
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
xps
and yeah, like, "a bird in flight" makes no sense as a concept for a building hemmed in by skyscrapers. calatrava's buildings look nice on a waterfront. but this looks like a trapped bird, or else some kind of unidentifiable carcass that has been picked apart by vultures... which maybe is a good visual metaphor for wall street
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
spent some time in hudson yards a few weeks ago. It is not good. It's suffocating and claustrophobic and mostly ugly. People were confused about how to get to things. Pro tip though, I walked into the rear entrance of The Shed and found my way to very clean public bathrooms which as any New Yorker knows, is very valuable knowledge.
― dan selzer, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
parts of NYC might not be so impressive these days, but tbh 99% of the rest of the country is the same fucking corner with a gas station + fast food restaurant + abandoned strip mall, on every other intersection, every highway ramp exit, everywhere, the fucking worst and least aesthetic combination of buildings, monotonous and interchangeable. so even a shitty set of stairs that hurts people seems impressive and potentially groundbreaking
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
A while ago, I was offered a job as Calatrava's personal assistant. I recall the pay as being $32k. I remember telling all my architect friends and they were a little horrified about how little he was offering considering... He had a very nice dog though.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
treesh otm
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
That’s interesting. I used to write about architecture as a freelancer, and the website I wrote for had a run-in with calatrava. I forget the details, but he doesn’t like criticism apparently
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
many xps to calstars: if you think pointing out poor paving is petty, check that full article. the point is that the structure just opened and already the shoddy, non-union construction is showing serious wear and poor consideration. hudson yards was supposed to be the hermetic future and it's suffering near instantaneous mcmansion breakdown.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
also xps to dan: https://www.charmin.com/en-us/about-us/sitorsquat
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
I think it’s annoying that it’s the final stop on the high line, because the high line is actually really cool. I love the newish whitney too
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
yeah the whitney is great
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
here's the problem with the highline in a nutshell:http://gothamist.com/attachments/arts_jen/agora-43.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
Sometimes it’s like that but not always. It feels legitimately like public space though to me—not like I’m loitering in a corporate plaza
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
i'm prickly about public land issues and park space in particular and i'm glad that highline exists but c'est ne pas une parc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
it's more like an amenity
i like the new whitney too, though i haven't had any luck catching anything good there.
There is just too many people everywhere, all the time. I thought once about going to the Queens Night Market once when it opened but then saw that it's always a mob.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
it's easy for the crowding in the city to color everything and leave you jaded and cranky... though i bitch about it when it's in full swing, going to smorgasburg at the start of the season during a light rainstorm two weeks ago was great fun! not so much in mid july.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Give the night market another shot xp. It's not always a mob, especially if you wait for the excitement to die down after opening. Going early is always good too -- I think they start at 6pm. I say this as a person who hates crowds -- the ones at the night market are pretty manageable by NYC standards.
You can also try going in the fall as it's sort of under the radar that it closes and then reopens in fall for a few more weeks.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
That said, I fucking HATE most of manhattan. I no longer work there and love not working there.
I just visited the Hudson Yards area because a relative won an affordable apartment lottery there -- the whole thing was a dystopian nightmare.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
Smorgasburg is comically crowded in the summer
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Even when it’s 195 degrees people are queuing for hot food
people pollution, incidentally, iswhy i prize greenwood cemetery so much. you can go out there in the heart of a metropolis on a June weekend at 75 degrees and walk for an hour and see maybe fifteen (live) people... that's changing too though!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
i jog around prospect park and, at one point, had made the smorg grounds an irregular part of my route. there was a point last year where you literally could not jog within a football field length of the grounds; ridiculously overrun with drunk kids taking photos of their arepas
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
Prospect park has some semi-quiet spots
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
I used to have a couple of spaced out spots all over manhattan that I would hang out because I had to frequently kill an hour or two during the day during work and all those places have been completely overrun by "where did all these people come from?"
I gave up on smorgasburg pretty early on in its history. I couldn't get over spending $15 to eat streetfood while standing in a parking lot.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
Astoria Park is a spot that I feel like is really beautiful and accessible and not insanely crowded IME, plus close to good food.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
mods please redact that post
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
anyone know what's going on with the street construction in the meatpacking district? it's been going on, constantly, for maybe a year now i think, and nothing ever seems to be completed -- more and more lanes are closed and torn up all the time. (i don't care about the lanes, just tired of the honking as i walk through.)
i assume it has something to do with google buying the entire area, but i don't understand why it just keeps going
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
I hate smorgasburg. The Night Market feels to me like the anti-Smorgasburg. The food is much less gimmicky and more varied as well as more reasonably priced, and the crowd is also less gimmicky and more varied.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
xpost every time I go to Astoria Park, I think "what a weird fucking place." I say that in a good way.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
I just visited the Hudson Yards area because a relative won an affordable apartment lottery there
not gonna lie, i'm desperate enough to envy that
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
there's LOTS of quiet spots in Prospect! But I love the park deeply, even the batshit spots.... drummer's circle and LeFrak and the Audubon Center are routinely mobbed and that's part of the fun. Luckily it doesn't take much work to find some solace nearby.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
Also, as someone who would happily move out of the city, I feel like the secret to staying sane here is just to avoid the hype. Whatever the latest restaurant to get big-upped in Eater or receive a new Michelin star or whatever is, there are dozens of equally good restaurants that maybe haven't gotten the hype since five years ago (or never) and the crowds have died down. People in this city line up to line up. They do things so they can say they did them. The city is so vast that it's always possible to find some out-of-the-way slice of goodness and peacefulness that isn't overrun. Our equivalent to prospect park -- Forest Park -- is practically empty. Almost too much so. It's a little run down but it's a very nice large urban park that even has hiking trails.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
i love the Highline in the winter
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
Yeah, warm weather spots on a cold day are a great example. We went to Coney Island in early spring when it was windy and 55 degrees and had a great time.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Governors Island has yet to get out of control as of last year; good place to go and explore and chill on a thursday.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
tbrr, you can find totally quiet spots in Central Park without much effort.
You have to go pretty high ime
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
But central park is incredible. Just the fact of it
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
yes i still enjoy chillin there all the time
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
i love central park altered and au naturale; going for a reason or just wandering around
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
re: queens night market, went the first night and it was terribly organized and a huge mess but went back later and it was fine. Totally reasonable and not at all smorgasborg'd out.
There's a little LIC Flea that has a few stands and isn't crowded and can be pleasant.
― dan selzer, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
WPLJ, a pop/rock/Top 40 hits station since 1971, is going off the air at the end of May and is being replaced by a Christian contemporary station. Not a gospel or religious station, but a Christian rock station. NYC is dead if it's seen as a place that can support Christian rock radio.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
i live right next to astoria park! it extremely rules!!!!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
for the most part astoria has changed v slowly which is why i still live there. can feel a shift coming regardless
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
my place is just a tad too far to make it super convenient to go there all the time but when I do go there I love it.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
kensington is being annexed slowly by park slope parents but i'm part of the problem i suppose
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
I hope they never Mccarren Park-condo it out but I feel like it's going to happen.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
parts of NYC might not be so impressive these days, but tbh 99% of the rest of the country is the same fucking corner with a gas station + fast food restaurant + abandoned strip mall, on every other intersection, every highway ramp exit, everywhere, the fucking worst and least aesthetic combination of buildings, monotonous and interchangeable.
"This place is the worst" / "This place is better than all other places"
being a NYer is the ability to hold these two thoughts simultaneously, ime
― One Eye Open, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
new york sucks ass and i long to move to philly but as long as my band and job are here i'm here
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
but i do still love astoria for real
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
I must admit, having first visited NYC as a teenager and gone regularly through my 20s and 30s, I felt a palpable lack of magic when I was there a couple months ago. It didn't feel like the city had "died" so much as it felt so extremely ordinary, that there was nothing particularly anything about it. A functioning city filled with music and art and stores and so on... the equivalent of a big box of urbanity. Even as the sun set on London and Paris and Los Angeles and they became less interesting, they never lost their particular identity the way that it felt NYC was completely stripped of it. (San Francisco feels unmagical to me also, but it never ever really felt magical to me. It's just the freezing cold city where restaurants don't let you make reservations so you have to wait 45 minutes every time you want to eat.)
It doesn't help that most of my friends have left or are leaving. Even the NYC lifers are packing up and going.
― twink infinitives (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
I almost moved to around Sunset Park because of those finnish co-op buildings around the park that are hopefully never going anywhere.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
I certainly can't afford Kensington anymore, especially while underemployed, but looking for a cheaper place than I have now is daunting. So here I sit waiting for oblivion.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
if i'm ever forced to move (i've been in the same apt for 13 years) i'll probably just leave town
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
everyone otm except calstars. smdh at finding anything about hudson yards ambitious or exciting.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
"This place is the worst" / "This place is better than all other places"being a NYer is the ability to hold these two thoughts simultaneously, ime
Morbs, I feel you. I assume you're on ninety lists and trying to find any program that works.this is maybe a good thread to discuss what you're finding in that process and for anyone who knows the inner workings of the city housing world to chime in?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
remains fun to visit, wouldn't particularly care to live there.
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
ulysses, apparently I've never told you I'm lazy? I saw a couple eligibility criteria and threw in the towel.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
I've never been to the High Line and I feel like it's too late now--I regret not having gone like 15 years ago. But I'm low-key obsessed with the head garden designer, Piet Oudolf, in the sense that I'm loosely basing my gardening plans for this year on his hallmark style.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
I've only been once. It was fine. It was fine for walking higher up than you normally would? I remember it seeming dark.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 May 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
the high line on particularly empty days is a fun diversion. sometimes i get ice cream and chill out
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
i don't exactly love it but it's WAY better-designed than it could have been - lot of subtle variety built in so that it feels different at block 15 than at block 10 and block 5.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
also appreciate all of diller & scofidio's little arty things trying to remind you of the artificiality of 'city views' and even of the 'nature' being put on display. there's ideas there. any other city you're just going to get a bunch of pavers, some plants and novelty benches.
I like the high line but I find it more frustrating when crowded than other city walks just because nobody's really "doing anything"...if the whole point s a cool place to stroll—and not shopping or going A to B or whatever—then being hemmed in w/ tourists is especially :-/
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
wow i'm surprised at the hate for the Oculus! I mean, I hate Westfield, and they chose terrible shops to go inside it - upscale fast-casual but completely anonymous - but the space itself, and the elaboration of it back inside the mall - i was completely blown away. it's both alien and totally familiar. the latter in that it's explicitly retro on two levels: the slanting ribs of the Oculus which pretty much have to be a direct quote of the famous shafts of light that used to fall in Grand Central before the buildings on either side blocked it out; and a globular 70s Kubrickian modernism. the alienness in just the sleek, slightly non-human vibe going on - those weird benches in the center that look like they might not be designed for people's actual asses to sit in; the Giger-esqueness of the "ribs". i felt like i might have to become something other than human to feel welcomed by it - which is a feeling i kinda like?!
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
I have no gripe w the design, independent of context it's super cool! I just don't get the logic relative to the surrounding buildings
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
oh yeah. well, all those buildings down there look like they were just sort of pushed around a chess board and left there.
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
i don't hate the interior space, but yeah the exterior is completely out of context. you have to go too far to make various transit connections, but there's not a lot they could have done about that. mostly i resent that it's just a nice mall that you *have* to walk through and that it cost $4 billion
tbf it's not as bad as penn station
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 May 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link
morbs, you gotta fight for life up in this dumb motherfucking city! keep hunting!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
also mookie otm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
the slanting ribs of the Oculus which pretty much have to be a direct quote of the famous shafts of light that used to fall in Grand Central before the buildings on either side blocked it out
I like that idea but I don’t think it was intentional, given the architect.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
Also for some reason Manhattan doesn’t feel like the right environment to encounter an “alien” or Kubrickian structure. I have to meditate on why I feel that way.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 10 May 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
mostly because i gotta get to fucking work!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
it'd be cool if the atrium was either not a mall or was a totally functionless space adjacent to the mall, for just going and breathing and looking at the light. a secular church, idk. as it is, it feels so much like the mall that it is that the things that are special/fancy or potentially-breathatking fall into the background (for me) - just feels like i'm in a mall.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
the High Line is really nice early in the morning before it fills up with tourists
― Dan S, Friday, 10 May 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
agreed w Treeship, I really do like the building but it's a square peg, it flirts with overreach the conservative abeyance of which for better or worse made the city look and feel like the city
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
it doesn't feel like "new york" but whatever that's a lost cause I guess
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
it's not even a USEFUL mall, it's a fucking apple store and high fashion storefronts. no arcade! NO ARCADE!?!?!?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
I don’t get why the mega powerful developers seem to think that New York needs more upscale malls. Doesn’t Hudson Yards have a mall too? Don’t they know that malls never did well in the city even when the rest of the country loved them?
― o. nate, Friday, 10 May 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
Does anyone who really lives in ny actually go to these malls to buy things? Or even to brick and mortar retail stores regularly? All this stuff is for tourists.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 May 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
Like, how many times a year does one really need to go to uniqlo (it's 2 for me). I guess maybe it's a cheap pastime for all the NYU students.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 May 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
― One Eye Open
this kind of thinking is literally how certain forms of clinical depression work
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 May 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
I lived in NYC from '99-'11 in every borough save SI. Longest run was in Bushwick but my fondest memories are from the South Bronx in 2004. Got robbed by kids for groceries and accosted by cops thinking I was lost/buying drugs but it was super cheap (900/month for a 1200sf loft) and pretty convenient via the 4/5/6. My spot was 112th and Liberty (near Bruckner). I don't even want to look up what it's like now.
― Yelploaf, Saturday, 11 May 2019 00:27 (four years ago) link
It's the repertory movie theaters and the restaurants that are keeping me here
― Josefa, Saturday, 11 May 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
Still Sh1tty, nothing to worry about
― calstars, Saturday, 11 May 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
I have fantasized about living in New York since college years ago, but every time I get down to the details it seems like too much and I lose interest. It's great to visit though
I love my goddaughter and her parents. They live in a fantastic apartment on one of the High Line blocks in West Chelsea, but it still feels kind of industrial to me - no trees and lots of galleries and storage businesses. My friends who have apartments on Sutton Place on the East River are living in the best version of NY imo
― Dan S, Saturday, 11 May 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
chose terrible shops to go inside it not including the Cole Haan shoe store who's interior signage and window displays are produced very well considering the extremely tight turnaround given no doubt due to an extremely capable team of production artists with excellent mechanical skills and print knowledge.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 11 May 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
I feel no need to kvetch about present-day NY anymore. I’m well through the several stages of grief. But the NY I started visiting in ‘75, age 11, and then throughout the late seventies into the eighties, was an indescribable metropolis beyond dreams. NY is definitely not dead now, far from it, but it’s certainly more prosaic, more commonplace, cleaner (in more ways than one), and tamer... not just a matter of degrees, but really a profound qualitative difference; a separate ontological plane dare I say.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Saturday, 11 May 2019 05:08 (four years ago) link
lol dan
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:03 (four years ago) link
Being real, if this was 1980 there is a zero percent chance I would live in Williamsburg and maybe a 10% chance I’d lcie in the city at all.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 11 May 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
Which makes me part of the problem.
I felt Williamsburg was slightly more exciting when I’d visit in 2009/2010 but that could have just been youth.
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 11 May 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
I was apologizing for living in williamsburg back in 2003. I should've saved a lot of them up.
― Yerac, Saturday, 11 May 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, May 11, 2019 8:41 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nah it's practically unrecognizable from what it was then
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 May 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
feels like an extension of manhattan now
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 May 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
you don't have to go toooo far out of the bedford/driggs stop bubble to get back to something that looks not too different than it has for a long time.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 11 May 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
I live off grand
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 11 May 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
There are good bars around. I like greenpoint a lot too and its close—my brother lives over there
― dan selzer, Saturday, May 11, 2019 10:14 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is also true enough!
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 May 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
i miss Domsey's :(
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
i got mugged coming back from Galapagos/90s
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
an in-law lives in that Kushner building on Kent and there is no deeper pit in hell. apart from what they're planning to go right next to it, which looks literally like it belongs in Dubai. that building on Kent isn't even nice. yes there's a gym etc but the reception area, hallways, all the unavoidable PUBLIC SPACE of even a place like that has the same shitty lack of attention that typifies every other public place in New York. the corridors feel like JFK.
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
Galapagos was cool
― calstars, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
Now I'm reminiscing about Williamsburg. Anyone remember Kokie's. That must now be an Amazon locker.
― Yelploaf, Saturday, 11 May 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
Still the Levee I think.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 12 May 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/uuxE5ZA4WPM
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 12 May 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
I guess you're right. Time Warner Center is another one. I was there today. For all the local character of the place, you could be in LA or Dubai or anywhere. It's probably reassuring to the rich tourists who just want to have all the high-end shops collected in one convenient place.
― o. nate, Sunday, 12 May 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
I went to the Metropolitan Club in NY for dinner with friends a few weeks ago, after a lecture on Hoyle and a miniature book exhibition at The Grolier Club (a truly fantastic place). it was a very "old NY" experience, the rooms at both locations were incredibly evocative and the food was really good. I don't have any illusions about who would belong in places like this (not me), but I kept thinking I wouldn't have any experiences like these anywhere else in the world
― Dan S, Sunday, 12 May 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
One thing I learned when I briefly lived in New York is that the places in New York that, when I was a tourist, I rigorously avoided as being "for tourists only" are, in fact, filled with New Yorkers who were less uptight than I was.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 12 May 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
i also miss galapagos. interviewed there once!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 12 May 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
Lol Kokie’s. I’ve read about it.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 12 May 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
The Levee is, or was, functionally the same as Kokie's though Kokie's was clearer in its intent. They sold only the finest laxatives that helped one talk out of turn.
― Yelploaf, Sunday, 12 May 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
Having never lived in nyc proper but been a frequent visitor over the last 20 years, i've definitely noticed a change over the years in the way people I know there (older and younger, different walks of life) talk about the city and their relationship to it... a gradual transition from a sort of fun-cynical "this city is fucked up and everything is hard and all the good stuff is gone and i love it" to depressed-cynical "this city is fucked up and everything is hard and all the good stuff is gone and i wish more than anything that i could leave but i am stuck here".
Last time I was there it was almost surreal, everyone I spent time with, inevitably at some point they would circle around to the universal topic of how badly they wanted to leave, "we're thinking about in the next year or so", etc... wistfully telling stories of people they know who've left in the same way folks talk about survivors of risky operations: "she's doing FINE now, I just talked to her the other day and she says she's NEVER FELT BETTER, honestly!" Definitely some kind of slow psychic change that has not been super fun to observe from a distance.
― One Eye Open, Sunday, 12 May 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hardlive in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft
― nonsense upon stilts (Sanpaku), Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
Last time I went to NYC was 2005. Stayed with my sister who was on a business trip at some fancy hotel near Grand Central, visited friends in Astoria & Park Slope, saw Jonathan Richman play (!) somewhere in Williamsburg. W’burg felt measurably busier than when I was last there in 2002, but everything still seemed cool and New Yorky as a tourist might want to experience it. Has much changed since then?
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
I worked on Bedford for about 3 years in the mid 2000s. You could still walk around normally to grab lunch, find quiet moments, there would be maybe a smattering of japanese street photographers. Now it's a throng of euro/asian tourists, recent transplants, a Chase, Whole Foods, Sephora, Apple Store all in a row. Oddly enough Sea and Earwax are still around.
― Yerac, Sunday, 12 May 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
I still have a velvet suit jacket I bought new off the rack at Domsey's. It's been a while.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
they used to have racks of old tuxedo jackets, pants, etc! i was an idiot for not buying that stuff. oh wait, not an idiot just broke.
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 May 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
It would be hard to convince me that NYC has not become a bland, (even more!) expensive and sad shadow of what it was even ten years ago.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 13 May 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
It’s been hit hard by the “death of retail”. Lots of empty storefronts in central-ish Manhattan neighborhoods. Perhaps more noticeable than in car-centric cities where the downtowns were hollowed out a long time ago.
― o. nate, Monday, 13 May 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
i got drunk and threw up in Max Fish. That was my first NYC experience in the 90's. Every subsequent visit has been tamer and less interesting.
― akm, Monday, 13 May 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
― iatee, Monday, 13 May 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
and the packed subways are very efficient!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 May 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
i remember reading some article a couple of years ago that claimed Bleecker St mainly hosts "performative" retail now. that rents are so astronomical, only companies able to take on losses purely for the cachet of having an address on Bleecker can afford to open up a shopfront there.
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 May 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
I was reading a thing too where most landlords jack the prices up so much now to inflate the property value so that they can take cash money out to invest elsewhere (if they can't land the uber corporate tenant of their dreams).
― Yerac, Monday, 13 May 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
― maura, Monday, 13 May 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
just tra lala dee fuckin la, apparently, is how it goes, for some people
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 May 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
NYC is a vanity project.
― Yerac, Monday, 13 May 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
I think I'm moving to the Bronx!
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 14 May 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
https://1010wins.radio.com/articles/man-stabs-bus-14th-street
xp to "looks like the onion" and fucking mass transit and every other damn thing
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 7 June 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
I was frightened when I went to Hudson Yards. It’s everything I came to New York to escape basically. It’s, like, a shopping mall. The whole thing is just like suburbia. In the middle of what used to be a great neighborhood for hookers. That to me is not progress, but I understand to most people it is. I’m not saying I don’t understand the other argument. It just doesn’t seem like New York to me.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 1 July 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
NYC not dead, love this story
http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/signs.jpg
A dispute between neighbors in Kew Gardens has become a real-life horror story — as a Queens man has decorated his yard with a Halloween-like monster mannequin that has left his next-door neighbors scared to enter their own home. “It’s gotten to the part where I can’t sleep. My daughter has nightmares about the mannequin. The whole thing is a nightmare,” said Jennifer Feldman, who is so upset at neighbor Shlomo Klopfer, she gone to the police over his yard display.Feldman said the trouble on 147th Street began 11 months ago, when she asked him to remove a sign on his fence that read “Dead End” because it “creeped” out her then 6-year-old daughter. Klopfer, however, said he collects signs and he chose not to take it down. “I love signs, man. I collect signs,” Klopfer told the Post.Things escalated from there. Feldman alleges that whenever she called 311 to make a complaint, Klopfer, 62, added more signs. She even went to the cops and talked to officers who deal with community relations. There are now more than a dozen signs that say “Private Property,” “No Trespassing,” and “Dead End” on a wrought iron fence separating the two 147th Street properties. There is also the gruesome-looking monster figure, featuring a blood-splattered t-shirt topped by a Halloween mask with stringy grey hair and blue bulging eyes.
Feldman said the trouble on 147th Street began 11 months ago, when she asked him to remove a sign on his fence that read “Dead End” because it “creeped” out her then 6-year-old daughter. Klopfer, however, said he collects signs and he chose not to take it down. “I love signs, man. I collect signs,” Klopfer told the Post.
Things escalated from there. Feldman alleges that whenever she called 311 to make a complaint, Klopfer, 62, added more signs. She even went to the cops and talked to officers who deal with community relations. There are now more than a dozen signs that say “Private Property,” “No Trespassing,” and “Dead End” on a wrought iron fence separating the two 147th Street properties. There is also the gruesome-looking monster figure, featuring a blood-splattered t-shirt topped by a Halloween mask with stringy grey hair and blue bulging eyes.
http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/mannequin.jpg
Klopfer’s wife, Ilana, said the couple is angry that Feldman never asked for a face-to-face sit down to settle the issue before going to the cops. “You see a sign. Why won’t you come over and talk to your neighbor like a human being? You knock on the door. You ask nicely. ‘Is it possible to take the sign down?’ She never has,” she said.For her part, Feldman says: “We just want peace. It’s not just us. He fought for decades with the woman next door. We would like an end to the harassment of our family.” Feldman said she even approached Klopfer’s rabbi in good faith to act as a mediator but things did not get better. Feldman also thinks her neighbor is harassing her because of her interfaith marriage, a charge that Klopfer denied. “The only thing I can think of is I’m Jewish. My daughter and I go to temple. My husband’s Christian. I can’t help that.”Police can’t force Klopfer to take down the display, since it is on private property and not a criminal offense. Neighborhood Coordination Officers from the 108th Precinct are working with both parties to resolve the issue, the NYPD said. Klopfer is a chaplain who owns a landscaping company called “S&K Tree Service.”A neighbor who lives down the street said he is to blame and that he generally has beef with a bunch of people. “Klopfer has been in disputes with two other people. I’ve never heard complaints about Feldman,” said the 39-year-old neighbor who requested anonymity. “I don’t know how it started. But it’s getting way out of hand. The evil eye, the scary Halloween thing and all the cameras. I think it’s going too far,” he continued.
For her part, Feldman says: “We just want peace. It’s not just us. He fought for decades with the woman next door. We would like an end to the harassment of our family.” Feldman said she even approached Klopfer’s rabbi in good faith to act as a mediator but things did not get better. Feldman also thinks her neighbor is harassing her because of her interfaith marriage, a charge that Klopfer denied. “The only thing I can think of is I’m Jewish. My daughter and I go to temple. My husband’s Christian. I can’t help that.”
Police can’t force Klopfer to take down the display, since it is on private property and not a criminal offense. Neighborhood Coordination Officers from the 108th Precinct are working with both parties to resolve the issue, the NYPD said. Klopfer is a chaplain who owns a landscaping company called “S&K Tree Service.”
A neighbor who lives down the street said he is to blame and that he generally has beef with a bunch of people. “Klopfer has been in disputes with two other people. I’ve never heard complaints about Feldman,” said the 39-year-old neighbor who requested anonymity. “I don’t know how it started. But it’s getting way out of hand. The evil eye, the scary Halloween thing and all the cameras. I think it’s going too far,” he continued.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/09/queens-neighbor-fight-becomes-real-life-horror-story/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
lmao
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
contradiction here though:
Feldman said the trouble on 147th Street began 11 months ago, when she asked him to remove a sign on his fence that read “Dead End” because it “creeped” out her then 6-year-old daughter.
but
"You knock on the door. You ask nicely. ‘Is it possible to take the sign down?’ She never has."
🤔
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
he just loves signs, man
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
and hideous ghoulish lifesize dolls, it's a continuum
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
“You got beef?” Is one of my favorite expressions and one which has been directed at me during a mugging years ago
― calstars, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
love that the monster is perched next to ye olde time telephone with 311 painted on, so petty
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
like at some point you just have to give the guy credit and bake him a pie or something and call for a truce
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY&feature=youtu.be
― Evan, Friday, 12 July 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY&
― Evan, Friday, 12 July 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
It's weird to watch video now of crowds of people out in public, walking around, with no one looking at or talking on a cell phone.
― o. nate, Saturday, 13 July 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
heh, my thoughts exactly.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 July 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
to me every day I walk among the zombies is weird
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 July 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
you are legend
― lumen (esby), Saturday, 13 July 2019 05:10 (four years ago) link
tonight the UWS is dead
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 July 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
Living dead
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 July 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
Glad i didnt go by midtown as planned!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 14 July 2019 04:41 (four years ago) link
Yeah. At around 10:30 ran into a neighbor who had just returned home from his canceled Broadway gig.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 July 2019 04:46 (four years ago) link
Ha, I was having an early dinner in the financial district. Jumped on the A to go to Penn and it only went one stop to Chambers. Transferred to the most packed 2 train I'd ever been on, which immediately became all local. Transferred after a few stops to a 1 train that was going so slow, we eventually just got out and walked. Minimal lighting and no AC at Penn was spooky.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Sunday, 14 July 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
people got stuck underground for hours! some real nightmare shit there on a hot july PM
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 14 July 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
Corey Johnson was all "THANK U GOD" cuz he got to play mayor on Twitter
(such a ho)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 July 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/238073511^pertinent
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 August 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
the midi cheese was really wearing on me but it was all worth it for “when people ask me what my block is like, I tell them one time they faked it for Syria.”
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 17 August 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
he has a good deadpan humor but why does he act like he can't read
― husserl gang (rip van wanko), Saturday, 17 August 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
this suckshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/business/media/wbai-pacifica-layoffs.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
I agree... WBAI has sucked for awhile
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
yeah maybe but fuck's sake, they were one of the few remaining independent on the air
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
they drove me away around the time Mike Feder disappeared
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
oy this guy needs helphttps://nypost.com/2019/10/10/bryant-park-pigeon-vampire-arrested-for-burglary/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 11 October 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
https://nypost.com/2019/10/11/city-bakery-home-to-nycs-best-hot-chocolate-may-close-after-28-years/
― maura, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
Oh bless. A former ilxor took me there as a special treat when I first moved to NYC.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
worth it? never been.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
Hit or miss. Expensive as hell but some great treats. Pretzel croissant is crazy
― dan selzer, Friday, 11 October 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
man this SUCKShttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/arts/music/wnyc-new-sounds-schaefer.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 14 October 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
Tomorrow and wed he’s presenting some crucial Reich live downtown.
― dan selzer, Monday, 14 October 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.wolfgang-hite.com/#/xxxhy/
Wolfgang & Hite has designed a scaled set of architectural sex toys that reimagines each of the new buildings at the Hudson Yards as a unique dildo. The full set of custom molded silicon toys fits snugly into a scaled replica of the entire 28-acre development.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
text gets better as it goes, nice
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 17 October 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
yeah, i liked "The design team warns that research is not conclusive as to whether or not the developer will own the rights to any sexy pictures taken with the Vessel Buttplug."
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 October 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
The subway is a porno...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
To challenge what critics have claimed "placeless" and "mindless materialism," the design team purposefully exaggerated cues in the architecture of Hudson Yards to make sensitive and stimulating forms for penetrative and external masturbation. vg
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 17 October 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
Every day, it seems like New York City dies a little bit more https://t.co/FSK90ofPaq— New York Magazine (@NYMag) October 21, 2019
― mookieproof, Monday, 21 October 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
never forgetdefend the indefensible: SBARRO
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
truly can't tell if that piece is tongue-in-cheek or not
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8463/8104389200_660fede01b.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
tbf sbarro's IS new york pizza for a generation of thirtysomething city kids
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
to me it's I-95 rest area pizza
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
I think I ate some... 30 years ago
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
my old boss and I like terrible food so we got lunch there a couple of years ago because it is near our office. It was kind of pricey! I also made her take me to the Times Sq Olive Garden for one of my birthdays.
― Yerac, Monday, 21 October 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
was gonna say at least tad’s is still around but https://nypost.com/2019/10/09/tads-steaks-finally-closing-its-last-nyc-outpost/
― mizzell, Monday, 21 October 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
did you guys know there are two chock full o nuts in nyc but they're both in fuckin' midwood?https://www.chockfullonuts.com/cafe-locator/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
Ulysses, did you make thay T✧✧@K✧✧.E✧✧ shirt?
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
naw, it's from the original thread
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 October 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
That thread reminds me of The Flashy Crawl on Biryani Carts, Convenience Stores, etc.Now I have the Chock full o’ Nuts jingle in my head on repeat.
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 October 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
https://amp.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/aptahm/saddest_place_in_nyc_sbarros_penn_station/
― calstars, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
https://hyperallergic.com/524007/a-monument-to-tourists-killed-by-wolves-in-nyc-tells-a-tall-tale
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
Wolfen?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
might as well be dead this weekend... don't get run over by the motorcade, skeletal runners!
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-trump-ufc-new-york-marathon-20191101-6etpd4daave6bephiz5zquknli-story.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
i would pay $500 american to watch trump run even a 5k
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
Stayed at the TWA hotel last night (not dead, embalmed) and saw a motorcade heading down the van wyck while driving home this morning. Did I miss an opportunity for a roadblock protest?
― dan selzer, Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
F you and your Marathon
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Sunday, 3 November 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
Wolfen is one of those odd thriller-horror films from the early 1980s, along with Looker - which also stars Albert Finney - and Brainstorm that isn't very good and bored me when I saw it, but it feels years ahead of its time and has some great shots of 1970s New York:https://images2.static-bluray.com/reviews/11940_16_large.jpg
They all feel as if they belong to the last gasp of downbeat brown-coloured 1970s sci-fi even though they were released in the new decade. I've never been to New York. It's one of those fantasy places that exists in films. The practical objection is that although transatlantic flights are £400 or so the only cheap hotels in New York appear to be hellholes because everybody wants to go there because it's New York.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 3 November 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
How cheap is cheap. Might be able to find something one the outer boroughs that’s affordable and more interesting anyway.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 3 November 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
i don't think i linked this earlier but, speaking to Ashley's point, omg the NYC in the linked film below is just amazingitalian post-apocalyptic science fiction The Warriors pastiche set in the far flung future of 1990. jump to 3.20 for a great fight sequence and 7.22 for the best bridge/body/drum solo everhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEqOnHclmh8
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 November 2019 02:03 (four years ago) link
been meaning to toss that on for ages... the sequel, "escape 2000," was a very good mst3k episode iirc.
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Monday, 4 November 2019 02:44 (four years ago) link
That was the episode with Toblerone! He was one of the resistance leaders. He overacted like mad, he was fantastic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXBEqMtOk5g
Unusually for that kind of Italian knock-off film it was apparently filmed in the actual Bronx.
You know, for years I assumed that Trading Places was set in New York. It has all the hallmarks. Snow, everybody wears greatcoats, the colour palette is grey, there are lots of posh stone buildings, most of the cast are elderly white people. But it was actually set in Philadelphia. Only the trading scenes at the end were in New York, specifically the WTC.
I mention it because I grew up in the 1980s, so I tend to associate the city with Wall Street, Ghostbusters, Working Girl and The Secret of My Success rather than the Bronx-is-burning films of the 1970s. In my mind it's a cold, hard, unsympathetic place rather than the loved-up hippie lovefest it probably is nowadays.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 4 November 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
my dim memory of Escape 2000 is that it's mostly filmed on Roosevelt Island which at the time had some great rubbley ruins and weedy fields with views of Manhattan in the background. maybe parts of Jersey for the same effect. but i could be wrong and anyway your overall point is correct - it's actually New York! they could have easily picked some run-down part of Italy (thinking of Warrior of the Lost World using under-construction Corviale and other suburban-Rome locations for a post-apocalyptic future), or of America (like East St. Louis in Escape From New York). all time best for that kind of thing has to be Rumble in the Bronx which just says fuck it and immediately shows you skyline views of Vancouver, complete with mountains in the background. i almost think the title might be on the screen for some of that. beautiful."
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
I saw Wolfen at BAM the other night for the first time in 38 years. Thought it was a good film both times! Biggest scare is the scene shot on a catwalk atop the Manhattan Bridge.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
otoh, the 30ish couple in front of me who came in late, babbled to each other, and the female half of whom told her complaining neighbor "You have a stick up your ass": NYC is dead.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
SAVE THE CITYKILL THE LOUDMOUTH
― cryborg (rip van wanko), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
Bloomberg's record in New York is perhaps the biggest, fastest, and most unrestrained application of "trickle-down economics" in this country. New York isn't rich because everybody is rich. It's rich because more and more only rich people can live there. https://t.co/lT1voHDX7r— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) November 8, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 November 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/12/06/murders-up-8-7-percent-in-new-york-city-in-2019
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 9 December 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
Western Massachusetts
― pophatte (admrl), Monday, 9 December 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
aspiring congressperson and Azealia Banks signee Paperboy Love Prince https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/personality/interviews-profiles/rapper-costumed-subway-entertainer-congressional-candidate
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
from a friend who was born in Manhattan and finally moved away 'The Liberals have ruined New York City. The smell of pot is everywhere. Half the people I meet in the street are stoned. Teenagers think it’s funny to blow smoke in the face of little school kids. homelessness '— Michael Savage (@ASavageNation) January 1, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
The bitching of one's friends is an infallible indicator of universal truth.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
friend otm about the pot though
― Josefa, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
Bet this guy’s never been to LA or SF to be complaining so much about NY
― calstars, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
that guy needs to smoke a blunt and chill out
― djdirtbagstyle, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
boomers bitching about marijuana while doped up on opioids is still on trend.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
I once didn't air out my car enough when I was a teenager and my ultra conservative dad went to move the car the next morning and it totally still reeked and he was soooo upset "I was in the military, I know what marijuana smells like!!!"
― Yerac, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
TOURISTS GTFO DAY
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
related - has anyone ever run for mayor of NYC on the platform of less tourism, bc I think that would be a winner
― Josefa, Monday, 6 January 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
but the holy revenue
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
I've lived in heavily touristed places and untouristed places, and I way prefer the former because the latter are boring wastes of time.
nb I live in the 2nd most touristed city in the world
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
boredom is v underrated, esp when all the fun places (for the nonrich) have been shuttered
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
I could suggest some boring places then
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
I was in New York recently (lived there for a bit a while ago, now I'm just an occasional tourist) and as always I like the way New York is so damn big that they can knock down tons of stuff and build tons of new stuff and it's still very visibly the same place it was in the 1980s.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
my platform for mayor:
1. less tourism2. cars banned in manhattan
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
Brad 2021
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
get me a cheap apartment to seal the deal
affordable housing for all of course, after i kick all the rich people out of their glass condos
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/30/how-new-york-is-zoning-out-the-human-scale-city/
In 2018, Chase Bank announced that it would tear down the fifty-two-story, black-and-silver-ribbed, early Modernist tower at 270 Park Avenue in order to build a new tower at least seventy stories high. This will be the tallest-ever demolition of a perfectly viable building in New York City. In 2002, Chase began a total renovation of the building to LEED standard, a green building certification that gave it “platinum” status, a rating that acknowledges the value of preserving the embodied energy of an existing building and avoids energy use for demolition, landfill, and new construction. Landmark skyscrapers across the country—from the Empire State Building, Chicago’s Willis Tower (formerly Sears), and San Francisco’s Transamerica—have taken this environmentally responsible approach and upgraded their buildings to LEED platinum standard. And in doing so, Chase also benefitted from the five years of federal environmental tax credits that go with that designation. Then threw it all away. To achieve the extra height and bulk of the new 270 Park, Chase is taking advantage of the “upzoning” of nearby mid-Manhattan that was applied in 2017 to a seventy-three-block area around Grand Central between 39th and 57th Streets. Upzoning’s relaxation of city planning regulations expands the development potential of new buildings by allowing increased height and density (the number of units or amount of floor area on a given lot), and simplifying the transfer of “air rights” from landmarked buildings to new sites within the district. Chase was thus able to buy air rights from the landmarked St. Patrick’s Cathedral, some six blocks away, and construct a taller, bulkier building. Preservationists have identified at least thirty-three buildings worthy of landmark protection from such redevelopment in this Midtown district, but after fierce resistance from real estate interests, only twelve have been so designated. By no logic—design, environmental, planning, zoning, landfill capacity—does demolition of 270 Park make sense, especially when at least some in the architectural community are trying to advance sustainable design. The planned destruction of 270 Park exemplifies how a vital aspect of the urbanism on which this city has evolved and excelled over decades is now being dangerously eroded. I weep for my city; it is committing urban suicide.
To achieve the extra height and bulk of the new 270 Park, Chase is taking advantage of the “upzoning” of nearby mid-Manhattan that was applied in 2017 to a seventy-three-block area around Grand Central between 39th and 57th Streets. Upzoning’s relaxation of city planning regulations expands the development potential of new buildings by allowing increased height and density (the number of units or amount of floor area on a given lot), and simplifying the transfer of “air rights” from landmarked buildings to new sites within the district. Chase was thus able to buy air rights from the landmarked St. Patrick’s Cathedral, some six blocks away, and construct a taller, bulkier building. Preservationists have identified at least thirty-three buildings worthy of landmark protection from such redevelopment in this Midtown district, but after fierce resistance from real estate interests, only twelve have been so designated. By no logic—design, environmental, planning, zoning, landfill capacity—does demolition of 270 Park make sense, especially when at least some in the architectural community are trying to advance sustainable design. The planned destruction of 270 Park exemplifies how a vital aspect of the urbanism on which this city has evolved and excelled over decades is now being dangerously eroded.
I weep for my city; it is committing urban suicide.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
they really need a broad tourism tax or resident discount for public transport, museums etc. and yeah everything about real estate needs to be overhauled.
― Yerac, Monday, 6 January 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
at work last week i saw one of those city banners advertising nyc as "the real estate capital of the world" and thought about how that's nothing to be proud of
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link
'money laundering capital of the world' is much catchier.
― Yerac, Monday, 6 January 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
it's still very visibly the same place it was in the 1980s.
plus the 95-story glass towers w/ empty Bahrainis' apartments
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
apparently i never mentioned an incident from my nyc trip last april
it was a cold windy day and, being in the area, i decided to see how bad hudson yards really was. the mall was a lot of wasted space, the vessel was foreboding, and something -- either the vessel or some of the residential buildings under construction -- were channeling the wind in a way that created this ungodly howling noise
maybe the vessel just screams? something's haunted
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
"the vessel just screams" stealing this song title for my metal band
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
'The Vessel Screams' also a solid name for a metal band.
― pomenitul, Monday, 6 January 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
I'd tweak to "This Vessel Screams" but yes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
afaict the streets of midtown during the work day is just tourists asking other tourists for directions
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:02 (four years ago) link
hey some of us are walking to the least abysmal place we know of for lunch
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
are the corporate feeding troughs still basically places where you can order your own salad to spec, mixed in a big metal bowl, or alternatively order a panino? or is that like 15 years out of fashion by now?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
My office used to be right across the street from rockefeller and sometimes a couple of us would walk together to the other building in times sq or to get lunch/run errands. It would be hilarious if one of the ticket touters approached us because unrehearsed all of us would yell "DO WE LOOK LIKE TOURISTS!?!" This usually only happened though when the NJ'ian was vaping.
― Yerac, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
it was an odd time to visit, compounded by my complete mental fatigue after three full days of training. got to see a mostly-empty high line, and after completely failing to notice my dinner location was next door to the empire state building, i was able to instantly go to the top with no real line! even the high line was relatively empty
fwiw I was both tourist and direction-giver to the confused older visitors
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
obviously i visited the high line, and my brain may in fact be mush today as well
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
xpost it is still a ton of salad/sandwich places or the ones that have both of those and pasta, udon, sushi, hot bar options.
I am not a sandwich person but there is this newish awesome cambodian sandwich chain that I would go to sometimes. Num Pang. And also a Lebanese wrap chain, Naya. Both super good.
― Yerac, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/business/sweetgreen-salads.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
pushing the envelope of midtown mass salad prep. love it. the best minds.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
is there anywhere else that people wait so long in line and spend so much money for a lunchtime salad? ( I have never been to sweetgreen)
― Yerac, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
I have to say in all about the updated and rebranded “Dig” formerly known as Digg Inn who serve serious chicken thighs. Cava also ranks highly in the lunchtime fast casual scale.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
buy lunch? those days are gone for me
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 01:33 (four years ago) link
I brought my lunch (salad) to work 95% of the time and hate ate that salad at my desk. I hate salad.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 01:38 (four years ago) link
― Yerac, Monday, January 6, 2020 4:13 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I know this is the most obnoxious possible take but num pang was better before it morphed into a chain
(the actual best, for some value of "best," of the somewhat overpriced fast-casual-cafeteria chains with shitty exclusionary no-cash policies is mulberry and vine)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 05:05 (four years ago) link
I am looking up which one was first (around NYU?) The one I used to go to was around 48th St. in 2013-14ish.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 05:09 (four years ago) link
the one that used to be on 12th street
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 05:11 (four years ago) link
(maybe 13th? in that area. it might still be there, I haven't been in years)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 05:23 (four years ago) link
I think first num pang is the one on broadway around 19th. I used to like it. Would get pork and noodles but they don’t do that any more.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
The Num Pang near University Pl is still there
― 525,600 gecs (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
agree that num pang quality has declined over the years. there was one day where the tofu salad container switched from ~8x8" square to a ~8x5" rectangle with no corresponding price decrease = do you take me for a fool num pang
i have many thoughts on the horrible lunch options around union square. long ago i worked way downtown and the breadth and quality of falafel carts and sandwich shops etc was strikingly better.
― adam, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
The best food in union square and flatiron was Taste of Persia which closes end of this month. So if you haven’t gone, go.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
What’s good there?
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
another vote for DIGG/Digg in here
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
taste of persia is great, i hope that dude finds another spot quickly. the eater thing i read said that the new owners of that nondescript pizza place are kicking him out! why would you get rid of the only interesting thing about your anonymous pizzeria half a block off the avenue!?
calstars he has a couple different things every day but dude will be happy to describe each thing in effusive detail. never had anything less than good.
― adam, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
The chicken thighs are good at Digg but the sides tend to be a bit oily. I kind of like the grilled salmon at Little Beet, but it’s a bit pricey.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
I was happy to stumble into Xi'an Famous Foods on my last trip after having heard about it and it hit the spot
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
they are pretty good for a chain
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
Xian is another one where it seems portions have shrunk while prices have risen. Its still good but seems pricey for essentially a snack. Other decent chains include Kati Roll, Dos Toros, and Toasties.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
generally if i'm eating for under $10 in midtown it's a deal. i had some $9 noodles at xi'an last week and they were delicious and filling
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
Hey I ate at X'ian recently too! I think general standards of US Chinese food have risen enough that it didn't stand out for me, but it was good and a plate of those noodles is definitely a full meal for me
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
I think the competitiveness of NYC food raises the bar to the extent where a local NYC chain is probably tastier than a lot of single establishment restaurants in smaller cities :(
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
I hate Dos Torros. Would rather stick with Chipotle.For taste of Persia I always get the kebab and one is the other dishes. Greens or lentils with beef usually. Persian meatballs etc. it’s all good and he’ll give samples time permitting. Other things I eat a lot of? The spam onigiri or roll at Enju.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
xp I feel just the opposite, I have always experienced NYC as a place where the propensity of people to eat every meal out means just-OK restaurants have a better chance of survival than they do in smaller places where people won't pay unless the food's good.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
also a fair take
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
xi'an's an exception imo
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
agreed that dos toros sucks but in a fight with chipotle no one wins
ennju donburi are another go-to for sure.
dan do you fuck with rainbow falafel? that's my first choice if i have cash in my pocket and i am down for some heartburn
― adam, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
Oh X'ian is definitely well above the standards of chain restaurants, what I'm saying is "even in my small city there are now hand-pulled noodle places that are really good, which wasn't true 10 years ago," so I'm saying X'ian is now merely "as good as the best Chinese places in small cities w/o large Asian populations," not "much better than the best Chinese places in those cities" as it would have been formerly
National chain restaurants in NYC always seem to be full of people (whether you're in a tourist area or not)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
Never done rainbow because I don’t eat pita or tahini so options limited. What I do do is bistec encobollado w avocado and jalapeños from great burrito on 23rd. I love when you find real Mexican home in the walls surviving in Manhattan. There’s another on 6th ave below 14th.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
I like x'ian but for office lunch it's definitely a mandatory teeth brushing x's 2 after and it doesn't travel the greatest.
ohhh, I love spam musubi and spam ramen. I hadn't seen it used much in ny.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
it doesn't travel the greatest.
Yeah I really like that they have a sign up in the restaurant that basically says "our food is not gonna taste very good if you eat it after it's been cooling in a plastic container for 35 minutes and that's on you, you lazy asshole"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
almost walked into that Great Burrito but i'm always skeptical of mexican places in Manhattan xxp
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
It’s not gourmet but can be surprisingly good. Refreshing to have that in that area.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
Tariqs cart on 19th and park is a good one. Sammys on 4th and 6th is great obv but not quite as good as the original one in Jackson heights.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
― o. nate, Tuesday, January 7, 2020 11:35 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
it's funny you say that because I like xi'an but almost never go because it's heavy enough that I feel like I have to set aside an entire day's food consumption for it, and if I'm already setting aside an entire day's worth of food consumption to eat somewhere I'm probably going to pick somewhere else
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
That’s understandable. It’s small compared to a gut bomb like a Dos Toros burrito, which I’ve been known to enjoy on occasion, but it is a decent amount of noodle at least. The amount of meat seems to have gotten skimpier over time.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
a chipotle fake meat salad or bowl is the right amount of food to not wipe out the day IMO and their fake meat is actually good! i used to eat at the 6th and 22nd chipotle 3-4 times a week tbh. lost a bunch of weight. i was like the subway guy but without the other stuff.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
lol
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
Chipotle has fake meat now? Time to go back
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
they've had sofritos for a really long time, that's my chipotle staple
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
it's sofritas but i bet sofritos would be tasty.
protip: it's BOGOF free on sofritas. you just tweet at them and say they accidentally got carnitas in your bowl and they send you a gift card. some people like the in n out secret menu. myself i prefer fraud.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
When I'm leaning vegetarian, I prefer Dos Toros because you can get a burrito with vegetables in it. Sofritas don't add much, IMO.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 01:54 (four years ago) link
dos toros now has fake meat btw
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:27 (four years ago) link
so why choose
though all fake meat just reminds me that the primary taste of meat is: salt
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:29 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I don't really get the point of fake meat in a burrito. Beans and rice and guac is hearty enough.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 02:35 (four years ago) link
meat product substitutes were so mediocre and pricey for so long (except maybe 1-2 tofurkey products) that I still haven't tried any of the new fake meats. I saw Beyond Burgers at costco this weekend for so much cheaper than my regular grocery store but there was no interest to invest in 8 patties. Fake meat on top of beans is making me feel bloaty just thinking about it (we also usually are fine with bean, avocado (NO RICE) burritos).
― Yerac, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
Really want a burrito now tbh
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 03:33 (four years ago) link
actually the science people who invented the beyond and impossible burgers found the actual secret ingredient is: blood
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link
I want to believe in bean, avocado, no rice but my stomach started howling
I’m nearly 40, let me live
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 03:46 (four years ago) link
BurritoVille has a wiki page. I don't even remember if it was good or not but i know I enjoyed it.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 03:47 (four years ago) link
i can't stand rice in burritos but what ends up happening is the burrito ends up being too soggy or skinny from chipotle-ish places. when I make it at home it's fine. I tried to do a ramen burrito once but it wasn't great.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
I did two weeks jury duty in Brooklyn and the food choices around the courthouse were a total fucking nightmare, unless they gave you enough time to go to the Italian restaurant Queen on Court St.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 03:57 (four years ago) link
supposedly more people are leaving ny than any other state and the population is decreasing. I think this year might be my last year as a resident.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 04:16 (four years ago) link
Soul spot is still there on Atlantic I think. I always loved that place.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
Still there. There’s also a xian by the jay st F now
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
i recently got promoted at work and i still can't afford to live here, fuck this place to death
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
i can't even afford to live in commuting distance from NYC in NJ. As much as it sucks i don't know what other area of the county I could or would want to move to.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 17 January 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
did you at least get a >5% raise with that promotion? because businesses try to pull that irritating crap when doling out extra responsibility.
― Yerac, Friday, 17 January 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
Fairway closing
― badg, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
supposedly more people are leaving ny than any other state and the population is decreasing. I think this year might be my last year as a resident.― Yerac, Tuesday, January 7, 2020 11:16 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Yerac, Tuesday, January 7, 2020 11:16 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
will this make rents go down? bc i am here for the foreseeable future.
― treeship., Wednesday, 22 January 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link
meat product substitutes were so mediocre and pricey for so long (except maybe 1-2 tofurkey products) that I still haven't tried any of the new fake meats. I saw Beyond Burgers at costco this weekend for so much cheaper than my regular grocery store but there was no interest to invest in 8 patties. Fake meat on top of beans is making me feel bloaty just thinking about it (we also usually are fine with bean, avocado (NO RICE) burritos).― Yerac, Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:06 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Yerac, Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:06 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
i'm slowly removing all animal products from my diet (down to just eggs now) and the beyond or impossible burger is horrible. i don't understand what is wrong with tofu, tempeh, seitan and other vegan proteins that are still recognizably plant products.
― treeship., Wednesday, 22 January 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
I know dick all about New York but the answer here is definitely no.
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
I was very close to moving last fall for reasons that didn't end up panning out, but christ, would it have been a massive jump in quality of life
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
New —> FAIRWAY, the iconic NYC supermarket, says it has NO intention of filing for bankruptcy or closing stores.Disputing today’s report in the NYPost. pic.twitter.com/lTpgXS4Q2l— Clifford Levy (@cliffordlevy) January 22, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
when a local supermarket chain beloved by residents of the richest city in the country is acquired by private equity, expands, goes public, and then goes out of business and closes all its stores in like a decade? that's The Economy baby https://t.co/lVgt91esuM— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) January 22, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
xp journo's tweet is wrong about that fairway statement - they just say they have no intention of closing "all" stores. Instead they clearly are saying "brace for an undisclosed number of store closings".
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
lack of a determiner in "ongoing operations of stores" is telling
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
We might have no intention to file Chapter 7, but we might be forced to/do it accidentally.
― We're jumping on the road with @Nickelback this summer! (PBKR), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
fairway in red hook is prett my dope, get the omelette and chill by the inlet and shit
― calstars, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:06 (four years ago) link
what is the reason fairway is so beloved? it always felt like a pretty normal grocery store to me. was it more magical seeming in the 80s and 90s when whole foods and trader joe's didn't exist?
― iatee, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
I’ve only been to the one in red hook
― treeship., Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
Michael Shannon lives above Fairway in Red Hook.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
oh ha, maybe not anymore. I see they rented out the apt for $6500/mth last year.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:25 (four years ago) link
better produce than trader joes was the appeal for me
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
the chelsea fairway was always a ghost town and felt really old despite it being a newer one.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
was it more magical seeming in the 80s and 90s when whole foods and trader joe's didn't exist?
I think that's a big part of it.
― o. nate, Thursday, 23 January 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link
iirc Michael Shannon is in Chicago most of the time, or has been due to theater obligations in recent years
― babu frik fan account (mh), Thursday, 23 January 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
apologies for tweetposting but the first half of this video before the music video derail captures a certain aspect of the tourist/rich condo zeitgeist:
GOOD NEWS! There is a Hudson Yards Video Game and I am the Main guy in it! See full clip ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️https://t.co/vaMuFNKA9j pic.twitter.com/dDxbYpWHQi— Conner O'Malley (@conner_omalley) January 21, 2020
― babu frik fan account (mh), Thursday, 23 January 2020 02:33 (four years ago) link
produce and cheese was miles beyond your typical upper west side market back in the day for the og store, it was like balducci's (rip) but old upper west side (jewish) and less blatantly fancy pants
― buzza, Thursday, 23 January 2020 06:35 (four years ago) link
They carried this one kind of curry powder that I loved that no one else stocked. It was that kind of place.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:18 (four years ago) link
you ppl and your FOOD, idgi
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
balducci's (rip)There are still a few left iircAlso hi Buzza
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
The last time I was in a Fairway (UWS) was to get ingredients for a meatball lasagna my friend was going to teach me to make. That lasagna was like $60 in ingredients but it was f'ing delicious. TOP LASAGNA.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 January 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
balducci's (rip)There are still a few left iirc
There are still a few left iirc
one in the city and a few in the suburbs
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Thursday, 23 January 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
Since my longtime landlord sold the eight-unit building to a mysterious corporate entity a few years ago, there’s been a revolving door in the apartment next to mine and the one below. The turnover happens every summer. So far, maybe because young men are known to be destructive, the new owners have only admitted young women, with one exception. By design, none of them stays for more than a year. The East Village is just a way station, empty of significance. My young friends who are queers and artists have never set foot in this neighborhood. It’s irrelevant to them. When I tell them I live here, they look confused. Why would you want to live there? The East Village is nowhere.
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-36/essays/open-house/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
what a drag it is getting old
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
or living in a dead, unaffordable city
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
with an utterly marginalized arts community
I read that open house piece an hour ago and I am still mad about the door slamming.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
what an obnoxious article. yes, a neighborhood with 20 year olds is likely to have an increasing number of people named Hayley. they might even use amazon and have smart phones.
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
here's an obnoxious mayoral hopeful for you, whose words i feel viscerally
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2020/01/21/eric-adams-slams-gentrification-in-speech-says-go-back-to-iowa
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
yes, as someone who was of course born and raised in New York, you are one of the few with a birthright
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
lol non-obnoxious iatee
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
they might even use amazon and have smart phones.
so fuck them and their shitty jobs and 5 to an apartment idiocy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
I thought the piece was very well written but there is something about being mad new transplantees not adapting to where they move and old transplantees not adapting to new environments. I was only mad about the door slamming. Always terrible. All neighbors are terrible.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
I don't post tweets but this really spoke to me yesterday.
Someone: Im in town!
New Yorkers: OMFG!! That’s so great! Have fun!!!!
Phillip Henry@MajorPhilebrity
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
I have friends whose apartment gets a steady stream of friends across the nation staying with them and all i can think is WHYYYYY
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
That article would be hilarious if it was a short story. The author really captures the voice of a motherfucking lunatic you'd pray not to be stuck next to on the subway.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
what is their deal??? (xpost)
I have a formula on people staying with me depending on how well I know them, like them, how long they want to stay, what their plans are, if they are familiar enough with nyc.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
Idk I have time for that article. I kinda felt that way 10 yrs ago while trying to get an apt anywhere in Pros/Crown Heights but we kept losing to younger ppl than us with more "liquid assets" than us, and parents who took them on tours of refurbished bldgs while asking why there wasn't a doorman. It was painfully alienating and I really felt it as a personal failure even though I knew that those 22-yr olds weren't putting down their own 4 months' worth of first+last+dep+fee. It still felt like my failure to be one of them was being aired all around me and my grubby self whose apt was furnished with "finds" and hand-me-downs. It felt like a different world.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
there are two kinds of ppl in NYC
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
yeah the fact that they thought that anecdote about the couple and the cat was brilliant enough to share brought to mind Fran Lebowitz. good riddance to the deeply mediocre and self-important generation of new york transplants who think that complaining about cellphones is clever.xps
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
my first nyc apt (illegal loft conversion in east wburg that years later had a bad fire) i thankfully found through cl and only needed deposit + first and he gave a free first month rent. I hadn't found all roommates yet and ph!l0h showed up while I was on the street moving in and ended up living there for several months.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
it'd be a shame for iatee and unperson to be stuck next to the author on under a train
phil oh, i remember him!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
I JUST realized it was written by the Vanishing NY guy. This all makes so much more sense.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
both my first nyc roommates were through ilx. the other one lasted less than a month before leaving nyc.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
Actually by that time I had lost my apt so I was couch-surfing and staying w ppl for a month at a time while my stuff was in storage and going apt hunting every weekend, getting ripped off by a broker we had to take to small claims court (and track down his shady as fuck business venture via searchable records to find ties to his dad's real estate company, then home address in Brooklyn Heights, and go there and KNOCK ON HIS FAMILY'S FRONT DOOR to get our money back--his mother cut us a check), and just generally doing shitty. Meanwhile Franklin Ave was getting hype and the hospital reopened as apartments and we just kept losing our bids on apartments. It was a tough 4-6 mos. Being un-housed really freaks me out still today.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
my challop is it's insane to describe yourself or someone else as a "transplant", who gives a shit where you're from, people move all the time
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
we're full up and more
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
i know a kelsie who's lived in the east village for five years. not only does she have a cellphone, she's a poseur who never saw the velvets at max's kansas city
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
yeah, like the percentage of people living in any big city that weren't born in the city, or even in the country, is always high. and being mad when some 20 somethings move to a city that you moved to when you were a 20 something is, you know, a bit rich.
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
anybody who's never lived here has nothing to say, sorry
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
yep, just the same kinda change NYC has always seen except for the needle towers for oil sheikhs
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
i think all major cities are having the soul sucked out of them by ultraluxury condos and shell company foreign investors.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
nope, apparently it's just old ppl complaining (see above)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
― Yerac, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:27 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is absolutely the case
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
I lived in Bay Ridge in 1990. I worked in an office on Columbus Circle and had to ride the R train all the way to the end of the line to get home at night. It sucked.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
"Transplants" are good for NYC. Parked foreign capital in empty luxury apartments is just unabashedly not, in any way.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
Transplants are why we have an economy, i.e. why we are New York City and not Detroit.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
hmmm, i think i was the one that used transplants. It seems like he never uses it once in his essay.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
"implants" is more like it
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
killed by transplants
We are saddened to learn that legendary DJ Harry Harrison has passed away. He was on Musicradio 77 WABC from 1968-79. The Hall of Fame jock was 89. pic.twitter.com/y4527YjYNH— TalkRadio 77 WABC (@77WABCradio) January 28, 2020
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
There's not much good about living in a city that no one wants to move to
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
why (non-rich) people still want to move here is what's confusing me
not leaving was the dumbest mistake of my life
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
yeah i never really understand how people dont see the dissonance between complaining "too many young ppl are ruining ny by moving here" while simultaneously complaining "ny is boring now, the art/creative/whatever scene sucks"
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
they’re actually just complaining about the fact that they’re not 20 anymore
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
i don't think moss is bemoaning the quantity of the young people, or the youngness of the people, so much as the quality of the young people. obviously the people who can afford to rent renovated market price apartments in the west village or williamsburg in 2020 etc are going to be nightmare pod people.
― adam, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
east village rather. w village ship long sailed surely
― adam, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
warhol moved to the city at 21, from suburban Pittsburgh
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
yeah, he's talking more about the quality of people able to afford to move to ny in the present day. Unfortunately that aesthetic of pleasant sameness and lack of niche interests is available everywhere. internet and globalization.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
the vanishing ny blog always spoke from the perspective of ‘there’s nothing in nyc worth considering outside of manhattan’.
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
complaining "ny is boring now, the art/creative/whatever scene sucks"
the writer doesn't even seem to go this far -- he's just upset that the 'queers and artists' moved out of the east village and left him behind in the 1990s
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
i moved to the East Village in '89, so by Jeremiah's logic I have seniority over him. So then: if he did not have such a pronounced investment in shaking his fist at the sky Job-style, it would behoove him to realize that it is time for him to go. The neighborhood is fairly or unfairly not for him any longer, and he should move to a neighborhood (perhaps Brownsville or East New York is suitably gritty for him?) or another town. But then, it seems that inveighing on this matter gives his life meaning and he would be lost without doing so.
By my reckoning, the fuckin' EV sucked many many years ago, so I left. Yet Jeremiah and another former ILXor each have a identity built around impotent indignance regarding the neighborhood's former status… I wonder if either have ever attended a communiry board meeting? Not as easy as complaining on the internet, mind…
I know people who laugh heartily at the prospect of the East Village having retained any kind of ineffable bohemian character in the early 90s. And I seem to be recall that Jeremiah is a mental health professional of some sort? I can't imagine a personality less ill suited to offer even tempered, considered counsel…
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
it's a very fading mentality to stake a place out and then never ever leave.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
that's BS iatee
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
felicity lived in the east village in the late 90s.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
Queens content on his blog 2 weeks ago
https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2020/01/neirs-tavern-saved.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
"‘there’s nothing in nyc worth considering outside of manhattan’."
god, what an asshole.
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
i was reading this thing in eater about Taco Chulo in wburg (which I am pretty sure I have never eaten at) closing and they were lamenting that all the hipsters left and now all the families in the condos only want to stay in and order delivery.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
yes, iatee sure is when he makes up shit
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link
I had dinner there last night incidentally xp
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
Morbs Jeremiah is pretty open about not having any interest in the New York outside of the borough he chose to be a transplant in, no need to go search through his blog to find the 3% of token outer borough content
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
sort of like your token participation in Occupy WS
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
If only iatee had camped out for another two weeks we’d have full communism today
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
well he had to go make coffee for Hillary
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
there was still bohemian shit in the EV, i'd say into the early 2000s.. the Slipper Room seemed like the death knell but it wasn't quite the end. You'd still have nights where you could wander through people's apartments, doors open, connected backyards, people passing through. Stereototal washed up for awhile, one of them became a bouncer at Luna Lounge.. a friend of mine had a guitar repair shop on Ludlow. her own shop! on Ludlow! it was never open. She lived on Orchard. I think she moved out in like 2002, 2003? I asked why and it wasn't because they had raised the rent on her yet, it was because she said the neighborhood sucked, the weekends were terrible, just overrun with abrasive douchebags.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:42 (four years ago) link
that's the reason HiFI closed too. It wasn't the rent, the neighborhood just changed and wasn't interested.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
lol I'm sort of mixing up EV and LES.. shows what a new yorker i am these days 🙄
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 01:18 (four years ago) link
I had to look up whether the Slipper Room was still open. I thought it was a lot older than it is.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 01:21 (four years ago) link
the least believable part of this essay is the idea that whomever he lives near named madison is a guy https://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=madison&sw=both&exact=true
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 01:33 (four years ago) link
also I admittedly have committed the apparently grave faux pas of sitting down on a curb (if you're not blocking traffic who gives a shit, laundry detergent exists, there is as much or more "danger" in the germs that accumulate on every single doorknob you touch) so now I wonder if this dude has taken a picture of me for his <s>spank bank</s> apparent edification
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
I get where the “go back to iowa” sentiment camefrom but tbh our per-year exports are not nearly enough to really twist the demographics I can only think of three or four peoplein brooklyn who came from this state in my general (30 - 45) rangemaybe every iowa city grad goes there idk
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link
I lived in the East Village from ‘98 to ‘04, near Tompkins Square Park. I can sympathize with this guy because I’m getting old too and these damn kids with their damn packages for every damn thing and their loud voices in the hallway are annoying as heck. OTOH in more reflective moments I would have to admit that the only constant is change and the bohos who move into dodgy neighborhoods will always and forever be the leading wedge of gentrification. You might as well complain about the weather.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
speaking of new york city and death, i need to make a will. anyone have a lawyer to recommend?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
the least believable part of this essay is the idea that whomever he lives near named madison is a guy
It's Bumgarner presumably
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
You might as well complain about the weather.
yeah, u guys don't get it
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
I guess one thing I do wonder (and I mean wonder -- as a 40 yo dad in central queens, I'm pretty disconnected from this) -- is whether there is any single neighborhood in NYC today that feels like *the vibrant cutting edge* locus of the arts? Has there been a place like that since Bushwick peaked? Because I have a theory that geography plus COL has made that hard, as it's become more difficult to have any kind of centralized area and instead people with less money who are in the arts get spread out in many different directions.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
i know multiple people with studio space in the industrial part of maspeth. get on the maspeth train while you can. thats a metaphorical train cause theres no actual train that goes there
― adam, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
yeah i feel like you need commercially zoned dead space for an artistic bohemian area to really work i.e. hackney wick, early williamsburg, etc
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
the spread-out thing sounds right to me. people lucking into decent rentals in lefferts gardens and ridgewood, workin on stuff in maspeth and in sunset park, promising to come by each other's studios, having to reschedule, settling on coffee the third thursday of next month, someplace in manhattan where their trains come together.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
please stay the fuck away from windsor terrace; we got a good thing going here
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
Still parts of East Williamsburg green point and Bushwick that are zoned industrial and have light industry mixed with start ups and offices. My old building at Morgan and division is still filled with artists and “artisanal” craftspeople types. Ridgewood obv but now “arts” people are edging into Glendale and maspeth. I haven’t done like Bushwick open studios in a few years but with the nightlife at least it still feels pretty vibrant. There’s always plenty of stuff going on and shitty places to live even if it sucks. And I don’t know about the East village. Sure it’s been shit for years but go further downtown and you have Commend and Two Bridges or whatever.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
I miss windsor terrace/Kensington very much…there was this amazing apartment I visited around there that amounted to a museum of sequential art…
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
see now you got me curious
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
who is this genius curator i wonder
mookie, I've used this guy for three things (including wills). He was free through my company so I don't know what his rates are like. But he is very accessible in chelsea, super quick responding to emails (you can do almost everything through phone calls and email), and was generally really easy to work with/pleasant. I am likely using him again this year.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrence-hanover-58937722/
― Yerac, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
the other thing about the village is nyu owns most of it and the parts nyu doesn’t own, nyu kids may disproportionately live, so the complaints largely seem like complaints about college kids more than anything else
(except when they become digressions about stalking and stealthily photographing and imagining murdering and violating them, which, I’m sorry, is fucking creepy)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
tbf, entitled college kids are a blight upon the village. not so much they should be stalked/murdered but still.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
entitled college kids are a blight upon the village earth
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
nyu owning most of the village is a very bad thing but i guess we can't undo that
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
not without seizing it anyway
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
^ this makes me wish the olsen twins still made movies.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
thanks yerac!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand),
im hoarding empty warehouses in Patterson, NJ tell your friends!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
i hear detroit is still hiring
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
I feel like I do hear little snatches of things through my wife's artist friends and various other random people I know and it's mostly like there's no one place anymore "I hear artists are moving to [Woodhaven, Jamaica, Brownsville, East New York, Maspeth, Glendale, Mill Basin, a tiny unnamed island off the southern coast of Long Island, a barge in the Hudson river, etc.]
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link
are there 'cool neighborhoods' anywhere in america? is there some place where it's more fun to be a 20 y/o artist than the gentrifying edges of brooklyn at the moment? I feel like some combination of 'the internet' + all dense urban areas getting expensive/safer/'normal' in past decades has made this idea a bit archaic.
― iatee, Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
Young people are moving to the woods
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 30 January 2020 00:47 (four years ago) link
not exactly what Thoreau had in mind
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Thursday, 30 January 2020 01:06 (four years ago) link
Thoreau was a piece of shit so
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 30 January 2020 01:13 (four years ago) link
uh oh dint know Thoreau was cancelled
NYU owned a lot less of the EV when I was there, eg nothing on Ave B which was a hellscape.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 January 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
Love any excuse to foist this essay on ppl https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/pond-scum
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 30 January 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link
Livingston Manor is the new Williamsburg.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 30 January 2020 02:45 (four years ago) link
As my stepdad would say , “Livingstink Manure”
― calstars, Thursday, 30 January 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
Rockaways seem pretty low key
― calstars, Thursday, 30 January 2020 12:34 (four years ago) link
until you get targeted for fare evasion cssny.org/news/entry/mta-false-fare-evasion-narrative-data
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Thursday, 30 January 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nooks-and-corners-of-old-new-york
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 8 February 2020 03:53 (four years ago) link
https://whitney.org/artport-commissions/new-york-apartment/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
haha wow
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
Mayor de Blasio is indeed here at the Park Slope YMCA this morning. Passers by have commented negatively. One called him an idot. pic.twitter.com/FIgEmlf4Gf— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) March 16, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
what an idiot
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
indeed
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
do we need a separate NYC thread for our unique challenges? (if there are some)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
anyway we have takeout cocktails now
https://gothamist.com/food/cuomo-announces-bars-restaurants-can-sell-go-cocktails-during-coronavirus-shutdown
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
lmao jesus christ
i mean good for the bars but just wild to me
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 16 March 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
I love that New York still has it’s expensive whimsies that don’t actually affect me
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
They should call it The Turkey's Nest Rule.
― Yerac, Monday, 16 March 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDOcpEdgvJU
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
i mean who hasn't filled up a travel mug with booze and wandered the streets
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
I walked into deepest Boro Park to reach the nearest Cap1t4l One ATM (cuz yes, that's how cheap I am re fees). Still 100% Orthodox residents with 100% Latino manual labor.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
PSA to new yorkers who will be ordering delivery due to the new restaurant closure (from me, a part time delivery worker) delivery workers are extremely vulnerable right now. please be considerate. here are some things you can do— wash hands. wear mask. stay home (@wilfredchan) March 16, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
deBlasio was making noise about a possible future quarantining of the city
Cuomo replied that only he can do that, and he has no plans to
boy howdy
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
maybe they'll fight to the death
― silby, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
rebuild the economy with pay-per-view fights between politicians. two chairs and one weapon each.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
they really should quarantine. Too many people need to be given direct instructions.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
that'd be bad for me, as I don't know if im bugging out of town yet or not
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
yeah, I actually invited two friends of mine to come here to stay and then the next day they closed the border.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
or rather they made the announcement that they would be closing the border. You would have time at least to make a decision if they announced it.
De Blasio saying a shelter in place order could come within the next 48 hours per gothamist
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
shit is getting real: alternate-side parking regulations have been suspended for the next week
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
They’re not sweeping the street, it begins
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
local bodega sold me five rolls of toilet paper without so much as a wink. they were out of tamales though. sometimes walk around the neighborhood fixes a lot of agit.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
i'm not worried as much about 'shelter in place' as I am the risk of going anywhere even for authorized purposes, in my immunocompromised class.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
"shelter in place" is a terrible name for what the order actually means, at least the bay area version is. it's basically an enforced version of social distancing norms (essential businesses remain open, you can leave your apartment but can't congregate in groups, etc.)
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
of course, it has a name that immediately induces panic and thoughts like "oh god, is my apartment even shelter enough?"
Have I said I had no use for it but RIP anyway yet?
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
Here's hoping all this rain will wash the coronavirus away.
― Alba, Thursday, 19 March 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link
Like Night of the Comet.
― Yerac, Thursday, 19 March 2020 12:44 (four years ago) link
JUST IN: MTA buses will be backdoor-only starting Monday, with exceptions for disabled riders. On local buses, that means no more fare collection.— David J. Meyer (@dahvnyc) March 20, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 March 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
deBlasio released 23 ppl from Rikers
alleged progressive heroes @NYCMayor & @NYGovCuomo are leaving thousands to rot in NY state and city prisons and jails despite scores of experts calling for mass release of prisoners, namely those (1) w/ underlying conditions (2) over 50 (3) w/ less than a year on their sentence https://t.co/6aIcBNlB1L— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) March 22, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 March 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link
NYT top headline is the high COVID 'attack rate' in the NY metro region
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
also an article explaining why the reason new york has been hit hard is its density, which article does not mention singapore or hong kong.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link
also doesn't mention that density varies throughout the five boroughs yet they seem to have roughly the same infections per capita (staten island slightly ahead)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 08:20 (four years ago) link
not fair, I've met a bunch of Staten Islanders who aren't dense
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
i thought ny was hit hard because of density and complete disregard to stay at home/take precautions.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
it's probably being hit harder than other US cities because of density. it's being hit harder than other world cities because it's in the US and the US is unbelievably badly run at the city, state and national level, and it has very poor healthcare.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
well GRANTED. sheesh. but ASIDE from that
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
guilty lol
― absolute idiot liar uneducated person (mh), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:02 (four years ago) link
POTUS says Cuomo "is supposed to be buying his own ventilators"
good luck NY
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
cuomo knows a guy
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
well funny that since the states were bidding against the federal govt and other states for supplies.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
ayyyyy i’m ventilatin’ here
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
all right does anyone have opinions about grocery delivery options
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
FreshDirect has no slots for a week, and the calendar only covers a week
relying on friends w/ a car so far
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
btw bdb *might* opt to close the playgrounds by the end of the week. to make up for the lost public space, he *might* then opt to close exactly two streets per borough to traffic
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
We ordered a box from some place called grateful produce and it was amazing. I also found a market on seamless and got some snacks and like 3lbs of cold cuts. Check seamless there’s always some delis that have staples.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
what about instacart
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
I take it Mimi's Hummus is still doing delivery
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/state-lawmakers-pushing-coronavirus-rent-cancellation-say-cuomo-mia
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
instacart is like a five-day wait
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:18 (four years ago) link
that's acceptable, we are just needing to reup on flour, yogurt, eggs, that kind of stuff
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
hopefully the flour situaton is not similar to the UK's!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
get that stuff from delis on seamless.
I ordered a big meal from Dawas last night, a favorite place of ours in Woodside. Did it via credit card and wasn't happy that when the guy came he made me sign the CC. I never understand when that's needed. I tipped the delivery guy 20 bucks.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
morbs (and other nycers), freshdirect offers slots a day before for delivery pass members; $40 for a 6 month pass that lets you hold Tuesday to Thursday deliveries seems worth it
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
I just did an Instacart for next Monday
can get by til then
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
Very difficult to say if, in not even considering fleeing the overcrowded plague hub where I live, I am presently being "cool-headed in a time of crisis" or merely "stupid."— 𝖇𝖎𝖌 𝖇𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖓 𝖆𝖉𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊 (@NickPinkerton) March 22, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
same
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s8125
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
little "support" yea/nay button on the right side
my sister just texted me to say "ARE YOU OKAY? TERRIBLE NEWS OUT OF NYC!" and when i asked what she meant she said "28% POSITIVE TESTING RATE IS TERRIBLE" and i got to be like um, yeah, it's a pandemic; gonna go jogging.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
I saw a few alarmist tweets about people leaving NYC? What would be the benefit to fleeing, if any?
We’re seeing a lot of flight from the city (especially among those who can afford to go to, say, the Hamptons). I’m not sure what the benefit is, perhaps it’s largely psychological. We’ve seen it in this pandemic, and throughout history. It happened in the medieval plagues, in the plagues in London, as well as many others. People see infection around them, and hope to escape it by fleeing. Instead, they may already be infected and are just bringing it to another place, perhaps even introducing it there.If, as the tweets you refer to suggest, you can really leave without coming in contact with anyone outside your household and stay inside for 2 weeks, at least you’re not infecting anyone else and that’s an ethical approach. Unfortunately, not everyone will be so scrupulous, so the virus is very likely circulating there anyway. The end result: you’ll probably still be keeping to yourself, but perhaps in nicer surroundings.However, if I thought I might get sick, I’d rather be somewhere near a good hospital.
If, as the tweets you refer to suggest, you can really leave without coming in contact with anyone outside your household and stay inside for 2 weeks, at least you’re not infecting anyone else and that’s an ethical approach. Unfortunately, not everyone will be so scrupulous, so the virus is very likely circulating there anyway. The end result: you’ll probably still be keeping to yourself, but perhaps in nicer surroundings.
However, if I thought I might get sick, I’d rather be somewhere near a good hospital.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
Asking "what would be the benefit??!" seems facile? Uh in the country I can have a whole house instead of a couple of rooms, laundry on site, a yard we can go in, a garden where I grow food to eat, two bathrooms (lol), and be with my partner who lives alone when I'm not there, and if he gets ill, would be alone in his house and no one would be able to get to him.
I have largely been up here since around Mar 4 or 5 with only brief visits to the city where I used gloves + wiped down everything + stayed in as much as poss w my whole building doing the same. It's possible I was exposed in those moments but in any case we're both asymptomatic still.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link
I guess those aren't the reasons rich ppl are "fleeing" tho cause they have the all the luxuries wherever they are.
everyone's situation is different, io, you don't have to explain yourself.
(except that growing yr own food stuff, my god, do you know what century it is? I know, the 11th)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
I mean if I fled to my sister's I'd have to take transit for 3 hours. just no way.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
Specifically the fresh veg are the thing that we'll be lacking if we can't go to the store at all. We have staples for a long time but it will help to have lettuce & radishes & herbs on hand soon.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
I fled with gf to her parents house in the jersey burbs. I expect we'll be here at least a month, probably more though. I have multiple friends in the city who are moderately sick, one degree away from someone who's on oxygen in a hospital.
my driving motivation to flee was 'if I get this I don't want to be on a bed in the javits center'.
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
Waiting at least a week or so more till we’ve been quarantined we’ll over two weeks and wives parents are the same then maybe going to their house in the jersey burbs. A yard and help with the three year old a big reason, plentiful fridge space. Etc.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:03 (four years ago) link
they need to figure out health insurance between states.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
Checked into leasing a car as a first step to possible fleeing; learned that ny and nj car dealers are among the businesses ordered to be closed (except for repair depts)
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
someone should start an uber for fleeing the city
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
I can 100% understand not wanting to fly, Jon, but could you? The few flights that are going appear to be very cheap right now
― absolute idiot liar uneducated person (mh), Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
assuming you're trying to get to minnesota
I'd come get you but it's a bit of a hike
― absolute idiot liar uneducated person (mh), Thursday, 26 March 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link
I meant fly as in fly you fools, fly from here The only conveyance I would consider would be a car We were just thinking about trying to find some cheap ass month to month thing out of town, and a car is prerequisite to that Anyway
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 26 March 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
Oh wait I misread you you were asking if I WOULD fly lol Gotta bring the 60 lb puppy so plane wouldn’t work
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 26 March 2020 01:21 (four years ago) link
NYT:
All of the city’s more than 1,800 intensive-care beds are expected to be full by Friday, according to an official briefing obtained by The Times. A 1,000-bed hospital ship is not scheduled to arrive until mid-April, but makeshift facilities at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center could be ready in a week.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 March 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
hmm yeah, sneaking a puppy that size onto the plane would be tricky
― absolute idiot liar uneducated person (mh), Thursday, 26 March 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
It's hard to pick out the most brutal detail from this overview of Bill de Blasio's horrible March, so I'm just going to go with ... this entire paragraph.https://t.co/t06jHoz8Od pic.twitter.com/KqzEbzXkwU— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) March 27, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 March 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
Too many politicians seem to think their only job is to soothe idiots.
― Yerac, Friday, 27 March 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
that seems to win elections
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
New York state on Friday recorded an additional 134 coronavirus deaths, the largest number to date in a 24-hour-period.
As of Friday, 519 people have died statewide. New York state now has 44,635 confirmed cases of COVID-19, an increase of 7,377 overnight.
Speaking from the Javits Center in Manhattan, Governor Cuomo said the news was not unexpected. There are now some coronavirus patients in New York who have spent a month on ventilators.
"The longer you are on a ventilator, the less likely you are going to come off that ventilator," Cuomo said.
Of the total people who have tested positive, 1,583 are in intensive care units, which are hospital beds equipped with ventilators.
The state is aiming to raise the total hospital bed capacity from 53,000 to 140,000. During his press conference at the Javits Center on Friday, Cuomo thanked the team comprised of FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Guard that have been retrofitting the convention center into four field hospitals with 1,000 beds. The beds will be used to free up space at existing New York City hospitals.
https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-updates-de-blasio-says-half-new-yorkers-will-become-infected-covid-19
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
cuomo and deblasio should've known better earlier. They aren't the liquidized walnut level of Trump but they waited too long.
― Yerac, Friday, 27 March 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
xps let's not forget the mayorss own trip to the Y for a workout hours after advising against such outings
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 27 March 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
#BREAKING: We just won the release of 106 incarcerated clients - New Yorkers especially vulnerable to #COVID19 - from technical parole holds at Rikers Island. Cc: @TMLuongo @CoreyStoughton @marie_defender @Michelle_Mc_G #FreeThemNow pic.twitter.com/fqjB1wZI7G— The Legal Aid Society (@LegalAidNYC) March 27, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 March 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
thread title is becoming a little too literal
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Friday, 27 March 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
― Yerac, Friday, March 27, 2020 4:03 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
the fact that cuomo is the breakout star of this, despite doing a measurably worse job than very many other governors by every possible metric, is proof if proof were need be that a daily televised press briefing will take you a long way in this country.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 27 March 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
cuomo comes across as prepared and reliable on tv, but I think a lot of people really don't appreciate where we are on the curve and how ugly the situation is going to get. he's going to be accountable for some percentage of what's coming.
de blasio managed to both make stupid decisions and look bad even when he didn't need to do much to look like he cared. it's genuinely amazing that someone who is so bad at politics fell into the job. he will go down as the worst nyc mayor in modern history.
― iatee, Friday, 27 March 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
I know it's a hard decision to shut down a major city, esp nyc but they seriously had this happen to other cities beforehand. I have no clue why they thought the outcome would be different.
― Yerac, Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:43 (four years ago) link
my mom, in pennsylvania, has texted me about admiring cuomo
(i told her to fuck off that he's better than trump, but good lord what a low bar. give me inslee)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:45 (four years ago) link
they saw him on the television
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:47 (four years ago) link
(Rudy was worse than BdB, you clown)
i know it goes without saying, but helena bonham fucking christ essentially any random person off the street would be better at this than trump, but
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 March 2020 00:49 (four years ago) link
DeBlasio said on TV tonight that April's gonna be worse than March, and May might be worse than April.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 28 March 2020 01:01 (four years ago) link
well, i mean it's good they are finally being realistic.
― Yerac, Saturday, 28 March 2020 01:03 (four years ago) link
Rhode Island Police to Hunt Down New Yorkers Seeking Refugehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/rhode-island-police-to-hunt-down-new-yorkers-seeking-refuge
― Alba, Saturday, 28 March 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link
I wonder when the doctor will tell me coming for chemo is too risky
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 March 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
I've seen the map of cases by neighborhood, and religious funamentalism is a helluva drug
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 March 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
Have other Brooklyn ppl had the Mandatory Wiring/Equipment service call I just had from V3riz0n? It was on, then it was off, then I found out it was definitely on when they arrived. I need my phone and web badly, so I feel like I had no choice but to let em in. I wonder at what point they'll suspend these visits?
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 March 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
This is from this morning. I know certain jobs like first responders/ medical staff/ grocery store employees/ etc. have to get to work but NYC, what are we doing with packed platforms??? #whatisnewyork pic.twitter.com/V5ufNHoeQC— WhatIsNewYork (@whatisny) March 27, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 March 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
They’ve cut service due to sick conductors and lack or ridership. Really cool. Maybe nows not the best time for that?
― dan selzer, Saturday, 28 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
NYT (shut down the fucking park gatherings and the goddamn houses of worship, for fuck's sake):
New York City officials are expected to decide this weekend whether to impose $500 fines on residents flouting social-distancing rules during the coronavirus outbreak by gathering in large groups at parks and ignoring police orders to disperse.
Mr. de Blasio also said that a few houses of worship were continuing to hold religious services and that they risked fines or having their buildings permanently closed if the police found congregations in them this weekend.
The mayor also said he was working with state officials to freeze rents this year for 2.3 million tenants in rent-stabilized apartments.
Officials said late Friday that the number of coronavirus cases in New York City had climbed above 26,000. The city’s death toll was 450.
At least 500 New York Police Department employees have tested positive, and more than 4,000 officers — about 11 percent of the uniformed work force — were out sick on Friday, officials said.
In a force of 36,000 officers, that translates to an infection rate of about one in every 80 officers, or about 1.2 percent.
Officials also reported the first death of an officer in the department: Detective Cedric Dixon, who worked in the 32nd Precinct, in Harlem, and had worked for the department for 23 years.”
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 March 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
I hear hundreds of NYPD have tested positive for the Coronavirus.When the funerals begin they should bury them in these shirts. pic.twitter.com/dJuPveVbNH— William Gillis 🏴 (@rechelon) March 27, 2020
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 March 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
This RI thing is so weird.
― Yerac, Saturday, 28 March 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
the city should've been endorsing universal masking (even handmade) like weeks ago.
― Yerac, Saturday, 28 March 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
RI and Kansas now have stay-at-home orders
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 March 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
If you have health insurance in New York, are you covered in RI if you’re hospitalized for coronavirus? Or in NJ? More generally, is health insurance in one American locale usable in others? Despite living in the USA for almost 40 years I don’t know, because I never lived near a state border and didn’t travel much domestically. I remember that things cost more “out of zone”, but I don’t know what zones are.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Saturday, 28 March 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
i believe so, yes. but regular/scheduled things would likely be 'out of network', which would be more expensive (but probably still covered to a certain extent)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 March 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
Oh God, we are going to be reading a lot of smug articles like this from now on: "Why I Am Not Leaving New York"
https://www.vogue.com/article/why-i-am-not-leaving-new-york
I can think of better reasons not to leave New York than an insufferable feeling of being a Real New Yorker TM. Think of all the people still working in supermarkets, transit, etc that can't leave because their jobs are here and they are working with the public everyday. Or people who don't have the option of a second house to escape to. Or people who don't have the money to go somewhere else. Reasons based on practicality and not snobbery.
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 28 March 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
also leaving is nonsensical on its face. you risk spreading the virus elsewhere, for what?
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 March 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
People think they haven't got it yet, so leave to where they think they're less likely to get it. A gamble, possibly stupid, definitely selfish.
― Alba, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link
self-preservation is an understandable instinct
I didn't leave bcz I couldn't, really
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
yeah, people will need to check about their insurance if they go out of state. I learned that the hard way that if you have blue cross blue shield for ex. there are like a thousand versions of it.
― Yerac, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
or they might not take the obamacare version of it.
― Yerac, Saturday, 28 March 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
My insurance card says right on the back "This member has limited benefits [read: go fuck yourself] outside of New Jersey."
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
the parks really need to stay open, people just need to be fucking smarter.putting cops out by the entrances appears to be breaking up groups if my last visit is any indication.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
New: NYPD has nearly 700 positive coronavirus cases; about 12% of the workforce out sick— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) March 29, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 29 March 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
cops are kind of the sweet spot for traveling around and interacting with lots of people while being totally cavalier about taking any precautions.
― circles, Sunday, 29 March 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
Also believing they are gods/invincible
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 29 March 2020 03:00 (four years ago) link
In a meeting with the shelter’s director and staff, Ward even asked if residents could get gloves and masks.
“They just said it wasn’t in the budget,” he said. “After they said that, I had to shut my mouth because now I know they don't care.”
https://gothamist.com/news/living-20-room-nyc-homeless-face-high-risk-coronavirus-spread-congregate-shelters
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
hopefully the people making masks in nyc will distribute them to the centers and on the street.
― Yerac, Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/mount-sinai-builds-central-park-coronavirus-field-hospital
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 March 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
https://nypost.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-april-fools-day-prank-riles-nypdComedy!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
I have been getting mail and parcels w/out interruption. Youse?
https://gothamist.com/news/mail-coronavirus-staffing-postal-service-covid-19
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
people who play april fools prank, even before this, are the worst.
― Yerac, Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
mail seems to be fine but no one sends me shit and i dont order much online
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
i get a lot of packages, no problems as of yet
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 April 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
Navy ship is useless thus far... NYT:
Such were the expectations for the Navy hospital ship U.S.N.S. Comfort that when it chugged into New York Harbor this week, throngs of people, momentarily forgetting the strictures of social distancing, crammed together along Manhattan’s west side to catch a glimpse.
On Thursday, though, the huge white vessel, which officials had promised would bring succor to a city on the brink, sat mostly empty, infuriating executives at local hospitals. The ship’s 1,000 beds are largely unused, its 1,200-member crew mostly idle.
Only 20 patients had been transferred to the ship, officials said, even as New York hospitals struggled to find space for the thousands infected with the coronavirus. Another Navy hospital ship, the U.S.N.S. Mercy, docked in Los Angeles, has had a total of 15 patients, officials said.
“If I’m blunt about it, it’s a joke,” said Michael Dowling, the head of Northwell Health, New York’s largest hospital system. “Everyone can say, ‘Thank you for putting up these wonderful places and opening up these cavernous halls.’ But we’re in a crisis here, we’re in a battlefield.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-usns-comfort.html
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 April 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
terrorists have already wonhttps://nypost.com/2020/03/24/nyc-declares-war-on-rim-jobs-in-graphic-health-department-memo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
i can tell who doesn't read their eating ass newsletter in a timely manner.
― Yerac, Friday, 3 April 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
look it's a difficult time for all of us
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
and it really shows.
― Yerac, Friday, 3 April 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
no need to brown nose the establishment
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 April 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/food/free-grab-and-go-meals-now-available-anyone-need
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
My dad was a Queens paramedic long ago and still listens to the dispatch radio as background noise. He was wondering last night why he heard dispatchers start spelling out the names of streets. Mystery solved https://t.co/iHkSaOHyPP— sethmpk (@sethmpk) April 4, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
― iatee, Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.mediaite.com/news/bill-de-blasio-rejects-claim-u-s-knew-asymptomatic-people-could-spread-the-virus-only-learned-that-in-the-last-48-hours/"> https://www.mediaite.com/news/bill-de-blasio-rejects-claim-u-s-knew-asymptomatic-people-could-spread-the-virus-only-learned-that-in-the-last-48-hours/
― iatee, Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
gah not good at zing
fundamentalist maniacs
https://gothamist.com/news/hasidic-funerals-crowds-ultra-orthodox-neighborhoods
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 April 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
are there actually more sirens or am i imagining that
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
there is less noise in general on the streets so the sirens stand out
― treeship., Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
like right now i am hearing a baby crying from--seemingly--an apartment on the other side of 9th avenue
― treeship., Wednesday, 8 April 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
usually that wouldn't happen
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 23:24 (four years ago) link
I’m pretty into this clapping thing
― calstars, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
Ugh
― silby, Thursday, 9 April 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
i've concluded the roar of motorcycles for 18 hours a day on my epically long street is just ONE guy, so I need to mess with his brake fluid.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 April 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
Probably Cuomo
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 9 April 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
clapping in the bar [Started by calstars in April 2020]
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 April 2020 02:53 (four years ago) link
several points of note:
How to get your groceries (being regularly updated) - https://ny.eater.com/2020/4/6/21208622/nyc-grocery-delivery-guide-coronavirus
Some are small scale and involve bicycles or hand carts to circumscribed neighborhoods; others are massive operations with fleets of trucks that cover the city and parts of New Jersey and Westchester, or involve shipping by FedEx or UPS. None are cheap, but some offer a few bargains. The emphasis may be on premium groceries and boutique produce, but on the positive side, some make closer connections between farmers and the food consuming public. And remember to tip — delivery and grocery store workers are among the most vulnerable populations in the city right now.
"COME DOWN THE BLOCK DE BLASIO"https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/hecklers-demand-test-treatment-from-de-blasio-at-bronx-hospital/
Full absenteeism voting for June state primaries is a go, you fucking well know we would've voted for Bernie you fucking shitheelshttps://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2020/04/09/coronavirus-in-nyc-update-new-yorkers-can-now-vote-absentee-in-june-primaries
Moe Albanese of Albanese Meats is dead to COVID, that dude was a local legendhttps://ny.eater.com/2020/4/9/21214819/moe-albanese-butcher-little-italy-coronavirus
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 9 April 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
so fucked we haven't even voted yet.
― Yerac, Thursday, 9 April 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
who gives a shit what new yorkers think, we're not real americans
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 9 April 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
except we make the media and house the statue of liberty and rebuilt (slowly) after 9/11 and survived Sandy and are slogging through a pandemic and create the culture and embody the melting pot and symbolize the first thoughts of america to most of the world but hey fuggit
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 9 April 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
Third consecutive day of record death toll in New York. Not sure why it plateaued at the weekend. Maybe people aren't allowed to die then.
― Alba, Thursday, 9 April 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
there's the thing going around in other countries where the ppl doing the counting don't ingest numbers over the "weekend" so there's a bump or revision on monday and tuesday. prob the same thing here
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 9 April 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
You can't expect people to count corpses on Sundays - they've got to get to church.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 9 April 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
ulysses I'll see your NYC and raise you one DC
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
respect to anybody who slogs it out there too!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 9 April 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
with the obvious notable exception of the administration
I am suuuuure
On Thursday afternoon, Governor Andrew Cuomo assured the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who are struggling to file for unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic that his administration is doing everything it can to streamline the process. "The system just crashed because of the volume, it's one of those unanticipated consequences of a situation like this," Cuomo told reporters. "We're working with Google to come up with an online mechanism that bypasses any phone certification. You have the phone certification because you want to make sure that people who are applying are also qualified."
But lawmakers and legal experts say that this emphasis on eligibility to prevent overpayments—with weekly phone check-ins and prohibitions on part-time work—is a huge reason for the bottleneck in the first place....
https://gothamist.com/news/cuomo-unemployment-insurance-system-website-google-coronavirus
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
"working with google"???
― silby, Thursday, 9 April 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
who else
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 April 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
google’s partner verily was also supposed to get testing program up and running by early March and it has gone nowhere
― Dan S, Thursday, 9 April 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
At the daily briefings when they ask the unemployment system fail question I have little confidence in the woman to cuomo’s left who always answers, but I can’t tell exactly why. She seems nervous ? Admittedly I wouldn’t want that job
― calstars, Thursday, 9 April 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
I wouldn’t want my job to bring me within 100 yards of Andrew Cuomo let alone 6 feet. He seems like a throwing-staplers kinda guy.
― silby, Thursday, 9 April 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
dickhead
BDB: "[Open streets] is not enforceable the way we need it to be and it disrupts other important things we need at the moment."He urges New Yorkers to keep "bobbing and weaving."I hate this guy.— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) April 10, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 April 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
So I read this, about the worst affected NYC zip codes and googled 11368 to find it's an area of Queens actually called Corona. Forgive my ignorance as a recent arrival but I honestly assumed someone had fiddled with Google Maps as a prank.
― Alba, Friday, 10 April 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/09/nyc-coronavirus-deaths-race-economic-divide/
rosie queen of corona
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
Second place goes to the lemon ice king of corona obv
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
indeed he does rule
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
Cecil Taylor was from Corona, Queens, and named several albums after it:
https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/corona
https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/looking-berlin-version-corona
https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-of-corona
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
also where Louis Armstrong lived for decadeshttps://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 April 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
oh, I totally forgot about Corona, Queens.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 April 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
it is where the Mets play (not Flushing)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 April 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
i am a bad queens resident.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 April 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
I wrote about the sirens https://t.co/geMSB6RHyU— Samer (@Samer) April 10, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 April 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
in corona yo it's better to take than to receive - ju ju
― adam, Friday, 10 April 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
No systems fail question today sadface lolz
― calstars, Friday, 10 April 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
every time I see this I feel like I am living in an entirely different city because I haven't consciously registered a single siren since this all started
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 11 April 2020 04:50 (four years ago) link
(and there are several hospitals near me, my zip code is in the middle in terms of COVID cases; there's no reason why I wouldn't hear sirens, and yet I can't remember a single one)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 11 April 2020 04:52 (four years ago) link
Essential workers were waiting for the subway on a crowded platform. The NYPD told people to socially distance even though they literally couldn't.One man told the police that they couldn't spread out and THIS is how they reacted.Absolutely outrageous and dangerous. pic.twitter.com/1RbTDZ6tej— Real Justice (@RealJusticePAC) April 10, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 April 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
Andy-Billy slapfight will never stop, this time about school year ending
https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-updates-april-11-de-blasio-claps-helpers-bellevue
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 April 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, 11 April 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/coronavirus-help-healthcare-workers.html
“You see people donating pizza to hospitals over and over,” Father Merz remarked. “How much pizza does anybody really want? Who needs 3,000 granola bars?” Hospitals constantly dealing with triage don’t have the bandwidth to manage the random delivery of food at unscheduled hours. He and Mr. Sheehan devised a plan to circumvent this kind of inefficiency, to feed Woodhull’s staff and also try to address the pandemic’s secondary crisis, the explosion of unemployment within the city’s restaurant industry.They went to Josh Cohen, owner of Jimmy’s Diner in Williamsburg — north Brooklyn is restaurant country — who had closed his place and boarded it up. He lent his kitchen. North Brooklyn Angels rehired the cooks and dishwashers that Mr. Cohen had to lay off when he was forced to shutter. These workers prepare meals for Woodhull to be delivered three times a day. Mr. Cohen and Mr. Sheehan and a band of retired firefighters deliver them, each driver taking enough food to feed 100 people at a time. The operation began with 300 meals a day, this week, then almost immediately ratcheted up to 450 as military medical personnel arrived to assist the efforts at Woodhull. The plan is to keep scaling up from there; an Episcopal church on Long Island is working on replicating the model.In Sandy’s aftermath, Father Merz was among the organizers of some of the most prominent relief efforts, efforts drawing from strong networks and deep embeds in communities, of the kind later studied by the Department of Homeland Security for an understanding of how so much volunteer work succeeded where bureaucracy could not. Some of what he saw immediately after the storm baffled him. “We were doing Sandy stuff out of my church,’’ he said. “One day, it’s 5 o’clock and I’m sitting here drinking a Pabst and I see someone reeling in a Ping-Pong table. A Ping-Pong table! I’m like, Do you really think anyone needs a Ping-Pong table, in the Rockaways? Now?”That quote was actually punctuated by a liberal number of profanities.
They went to Josh Cohen, owner of Jimmy’s Diner in Williamsburg — north Brooklyn is restaurant country — who had closed his place and boarded it up. He lent his kitchen. North Brooklyn Angels rehired the cooks and dishwashers that Mr. Cohen had to lay off when he was forced to shutter. These workers prepare meals for Woodhull to be delivered three times a day. Mr. Cohen and Mr. Sheehan and a band of retired firefighters deliver them, each driver taking enough food to feed 100 people at a time. The operation began with 300 meals a day, this week, then almost immediately ratcheted up to 450 as military medical personnel arrived to assist the efforts at Woodhull. The plan is to keep scaling up from there; an Episcopal church on Long Island is working on replicating the model.
In Sandy’s aftermath, Father Merz was among the organizers of some of the most prominent relief efforts, efforts drawing from strong networks and deep embeds in communities, of the kind later studied by the Department of Homeland Security for an understanding of how so much volunteer work succeeded where bureaucracy could not. Some of what he saw immediately after the storm baffled him. “We were doing Sandy stuff out of my church,’’ he said. “One day, it’s 5 o’clock and I’m sitting here drinking a Pabst and I see someone reeling in a Ping-Pong table. A Ping-Pong table! I’m like, Do you really think anyone needs a Ping-Pong table, in the Rockaways? Now?”
That quote was actually punctuated by a liberal number of profanities.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 12 April 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/move-over-pizza-rat-heres-rat-eating-rat
“They start killing and eating each other right inside that nest,” he noted. “When things just aren’t available, and they get hungry. It’s the nearest rat that’s smaller and weaker that will be the protein.”And if a rat colony were to take the risky step in infringing on another rodent colony’s turf—the result of an exodus from a food-depleted part of the city—expect a battle to break out.“They will not give up that territory without a big battle,” said Corrigan, who’s personally witnessed such beefs occurring between rodents well before the coronavirus crisis. “It’s like something out of Ben-Hur.”
And if a rat colony were to take the risky step in infringing on another rodent colony’s turf—the result of an exodus from a food-depleted part of the city—expect a battle to break out.
“They will not give up that territory without a big battle,” said Corrigan, who’s personally witnessed such beefs occurring between rodents well before the coronavirus crisis. “It’s like something out of Ben-Hur.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/04/17/soft-serve-defiance-ice-cream-trucks-ply-brooklyn-streets
I've been hearing the jingle!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 20 April 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
me too, across the street
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 April 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
Just heard the first one 15 minutes ago
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 20 April 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
1 in 62 people in New York City have tested positive for coronavirus, 1 in 235 people in New York City have been hospitalized for coronavirus, and 1 in 582 people in New York City have died from coronavirus, according to data from the city and the US Census Bureau.— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 21, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
devastating numbers, what a failure of leadership
― silby, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
mta death count is now over 80
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
jesus are those tweet numbers accurate?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
1 in 582 dead would be about 12,000 people. So yes.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
where are the cops?
https://gothamist.com/news/ultra-orthodox-hasidic-yeshivas-classes-brooklyn-coronavirus
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
"I think I've been specific about it," de Blasio says when asked the specific reasons why NYC is different from other cities that have closed streets to cars.— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) April 22, 2020
He says in California, drivers stop at intersections even when there's no light or stop sign, and they stop for people crossing mid-block. There's a different culture in NY. CA people - is this right?— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) April 22, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
failure to yield to peds is ticket + points in CA (as of like 3 years ago) WHICH IS WHAT IT SHOULD BE. the difference is enforcement for whatever reason. the NYS should be fining drivers constantly.
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
the sad thing is this is a historic opportunity to make progress here and we're giving it up because we have an idiot mayor
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
It’s too bad he’s an idiot :(
― silby, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
yeah the thing we're absolutely having confirmed rn is that deblasio is remarkably flopsweaty in crisis
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
America’s Mayo
― silby, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
do you guys remember when this guy actually ran for president
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
he has neither rose nor shone
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:16 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
driving around the park doing nothing
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
I once had to talk myself out of a jaywalking ticket in Los Angeles. I explained that I was from New York and only visiting L.A. for the summer and that (plus my whiteness) did the trick.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
― iatee, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:49 AM (six minutes ago)
Wow I don’t
― silby, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
Can we hate-read all the essays mentioned here?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stop-writing-why-i-left-new-york-pandemic-essays_n_5e9fa07bc5b6b2e5b839dcd3?28q
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 23 April 2020 00:27 (four years ago) link
no one has ever had an adequate explanation for deblasio. Ever.
― Ira Einhorn (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 23 April 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
The guy he was running against said we should kill kittens on the subway tracks (that man was right... but!)
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
― Virginia Plain, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:27 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
that mira jacob comic is just terrible. no thought of any value going on in there
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:39 (four years ago) link
all of jacob's work i've seen is not good, that is also not good
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link
^^^^^ otm
― Ira Einhorn (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link
years ago, early in bdb's administration, i had drinks with a (lefty) woman who's worked in city government for a while -- she was all like, bloomberg was a pain in the ass, but if he said something, you could be pretty sure it would happen. but even if di blasio weren't clueless, he's an absolutely shit executive
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
even a random half-assed political operative would have stopped the park slope Y thing years ago ffs
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
Sad but true
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 April 2020 04:29 (four years ago) link
This was so good. It happens to be about a restaurant but the general sentiments apply to so many NYC scenes, like existential dread for the future but also recognizing how exhausting it was to maintain some kind of integrity even before all this... https://t.co/tWOTI15tMB pic.twitter.com/ZYwYHjrIA9— Emily Witt (@embot) April 23, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 April 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
wow, yeah.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
went there last year (for the first time!!)
sensational article.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
yeah, the part that i read in the tweet is really great.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
Important Absentee Voting Update for June 23 Election. pic.twitter.com/oSR18JqZnf— NYCBoardOfElections (@BOENYC) April 24, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 April 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
I just submitted my form yesterday! This is, of course, better news.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
The guy he was running against said we should kill kittens on the subway tracks
also that Bloomberg servant/bellowing horror Christine Quinn
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
too-literal take on the thread titlehttps://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/04/22/cemetery-races-to-keep-up-as-new-york-virus-deaths-mount
http://brooklyneagle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/AP20112021595311-scaled-e1587499694234.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
and tacking back to less horrifichttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-liquor-stores-nyc.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
and the more predictablehttps://thecity.nyc/2020/04/garbage-pickups-tell-tale-of-two-cities-as-manhattan-shrinks.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
icymi
https://gothamist.com/food/third-nyc-food-pantries-have-closed-swelling-bread-lines-during-coronavirus-lockdown
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 April 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
about fucking time
https://gothamist.com/news/crowded-hasidic-funeral-williamsburg-coordinated-approved-nypd
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
brad lander otm:"Leading with policing to address a public health crisis is just not the answer"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/05/01/missing-sounds-of-new-york
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 1 May 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
Socially distanced. Spiritually connected.— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) May 1, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 May 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
thank God Andy's too reptilian to be president, eh
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 May 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
Probably yeah.
― o. nate, Friday, 1 May 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
don't tempt fate...
― Nhex, Friday, 1 May 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
NY Review of Books has it about right:
Prior to the pandemic, his reputation was that of a top-dog machine politician par excellence—a bullying, controlling, charmless power broker, reviled by progressives, accepted by Republicans, and tolerated by the rest
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/05/14/andrew-cuomo-emergency-responder/
― o. nate, Friday, 1 May 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
woof
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/nyregion/coronavirus-flowers-bodies.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
when the nyse reopens, it will ban people who took public transit to get there
jfc
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/05/15/the-coming-carmaggeddon-will-our-leaders-solve-nycs-transportation-problem
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 May 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
Just wanna have some fried chicken
― calstars, Saturday, 16 May 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
So looks like I am officially one of those leaving NYC people, moving to westchester
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
I don't know if I was ever really an NYC person, but the one appeal of the city -- supposedly a music scene and lots of musicians to play with -- became increasingly fleeting, as the neighborhood I could afford to live in with my family, even on a lawyer and teacher's salary, had few musicians, no practice spaces, and no places to play. This feeling was sealed talking to a friend in the town I'm moving to, who says he actually finds it easier both to find other musicians and make friends in the town he lives in now than he did in Brooklyn.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
Here's your hat.
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
NO MORE BIRYANI FLASHY FOR U! BYE SUCKA LOL
― calstars, Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
ironically, the city may now become cheaper and more habitable for musicians again. I honestly hope it does! It's just not for me anymore, working dad me trying to raise kids etc.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
lol, calstars
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
when i lived in nyc - late 90s, early 2000s - it was pretty terrible for live music for exactly the reasons you mention, man alive. there were a few venues downtown (luna lounge, brownie's, arlene's etc) and some weird warehousy spaces in brooklyn but practice spaces were hard to find and expensive.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
I went to Astoria Soundworks for the last time right before the lockdown, wonder if they are still open in some capacity, website doesn't say they are closed.
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
yeah even then I remember it being tough, or at least early 2000s, which was sort of the peak of my band life. There were still more venues and practice spaces than there are now, but there was this feeling that, compared to other cities, no one really gave a shit about you unless you were the hype of the moment, not much of a sense of "scene" or ease of developing a following. There were the Todd P and other DIY type shows, and I'm sure there's some equivalent now that I'm just not keyed into as an old guy, but I'm not even talking about being in a "real band" and being in a "scene" anymore, I just mean having a fucking basement so people can come over to play, instead of, like, booking a 2-hour window two weeks in advance and having to split up the payment five ways and drive 20 minutes to get there and spend another 20 minutes looking for parking, and then looking at booking shows at some crap bar in a different borough because it's the only place you can find that would book you easily.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
This is how all of these issues are related - closing the beaches, closing pools, closing cooling centers, not opening up more space outside for people. It's all related. It's an urban system that is failing because the person in charge doesn't understand how the system functions— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) May 27, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 May 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
People Like Amy Cooper Are Why I Left New York City
Newark is awesome. I hope people like Amy Cooper stay scared of it forever.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 28 May 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"For the next few months, people are going to make their own choices. Some people are going to be comfortable on mass transit, some are not." -@BilldeBlasio— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) May 28, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
"Some people are going to be murdered, some are not. It's New York! Fuhgeddatboutit!"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI
― Trouble Is My Métier (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
― Josefa, Friday, May 10, 2019 9:13 PM (one year ago)
Welp
― Josefa, Friday, 29 May 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
about 85% of why i am here is on hold
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 29 May 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
yup
― Trouble Is My Métier (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 May 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
same phenomenon in London. a lot of people wfh every day asking themselves, why am i here in this pokey apartment?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 May 2020 07:54 (three years ago) link
not my kind of place, but: foley's is closing for good
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 May 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
Not NYC, but mookie may appreciate: DC's Post Pub is closing for good
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 29 May 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
i don't think i ever went there! as long as the big hunt still lives . . .
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 May 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Post Pub was more divey, despite location.
Hard to imagine the big hunt kicking it, but who knows?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 30 May 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/frustrated-and-struggling-new-yorkers-contemplate-abandoning-the-city-they-love/2020/05/25/153ca71e-9c5b-11ea-a2b3-5c3f2d1586df_story.html
― octobeard, Saturday, 30 May 2020 08:21 (three years ago) link
thrilled to get a curfew alert in my hospital bed
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
NYC police scanner has been pretty crazy to listen to right now
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 03:55 (three years ago) link
that's here btw: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/32890
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
not seeing any other way to read mass arrests and looting downtown other than as a total clusterfuck; curfew appears to have escalated the situation radically.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
Shocking!
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
it was a phenomenally dumb move. Sounds like a major peaceful protest in Brooklyn came off without a problem but Manhattan got ugly.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
and now these fuckers are going to stage an 8pm curfew for tuesdayi am in full on "can't sleep clown will eat me" mode. no idea how this city and its people are going to recover over the next few weeks.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
the areas being hit - soho, union square, herald square - are predominantly the homes of the rich and hang out spots for tourists and knucklehead teenagers; it's gotta be like 95% the latter doing the looting.
Feels like a very organized effort tonight - kids have turned up with hammers and big bags, they have spotters on the corners and cars ready to go. Group of about 500 kids now running up Fifth Ave looting whatever they want pic.twitter.com/vP97YCLis7— Rachel Olding (@rachelolding) June 2, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 05:21 (three years ago) link
which is to say - and i know i'm preaching to the choir here but it feels worth noting - that the protestors are not driving or motivating this looting
Some young men just tried to loot an Aldo on 5th Ave when other protesters grabbed them, pulled one guy out the store window, and made them stop. An argument about looting then ensued. #NYCProtest #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/cQaG7GHMtR— Liam Stack (@liamstack) June 1, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 05:25 (three years ago) link
I’m rooting for the looters. Those kids are having fun out there.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 05:30 (three years ago) link
i could give a shit about macy's but those kids having fun out there are allowing nyc residents and world media to associate anti-brutality protests with smash-and-grab robberies which couldn't be more counterproductive.
bonus: a significant number of those kids having fun out there are gonna get their heads cracked open and/or potentially catch a felony when nypd decides to go over the tapes.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 05:37 (three years ago) link
and hey not for nothing but given that we've all been in full quarantine lockdown in this city for nearly three months and we've just had a buffet of local violent attacks by the cops on protesters, maybe full-on fucking looting in manhattan is maybe a bit more anarchy than any of us are down for at this precise moment.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 05:41 (three years ago) link
silby for presidetn
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 06:18 (three years ago) link
God forbid
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 06:45 (three years ago) link
I don’t think my “property crime is fine” plank is much of a winner
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 06:46 (three years ago) link
abolish property, eradicate property crime
― massage angry pixels (sic), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 07:27 (three years ago) link
garnish police brass wages to insure looted businesses
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link
Fifth Ave chains can all burn with my blessing
Police scanner was invaluable last night
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, June 2, 2020 4:58 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
basically how i feel about looting in manhattan
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 12:02 (three years ago) link
tourism insurance
stay in Red states where you belong
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 12:16 (three years ago) link
where will the clothes live now
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
big box stores
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
and on white trash asses
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 12:32 (three years ago) link
Always me with my banal concerns but 8 pm tonight is fucking early for a curfew. Where is this giant puppy supposed to take his last piss!
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
not sure i understand the purpose or efficacy of curfews given the past few days, other than terrorizing your own populace of course
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
Criminalizing same, mostly.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
u good, bro xxp
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 13:58 (three years ago) link
deBlasio defending cops to hilt when his own daughter was arrested fascinates me in a sick way
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
horrible asshole
An emotional @NYPDChiefofDept tells @JoshEiniger7 that it’s time to get the agitators “out of here” - “from California, from all over this country, who are being paid to take this movement, which is a good movement, and turn it into violence.” @ABC7NY pic.twitter.com/Zz87dA3UDT— Morena Basteiro (@morenabasteiro) June 1, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
Zephyr for mayor
"Under a Program presented by de Blasio, police spending accounted for only 0.3 percent of out-year budget savings; 34 percent of the spending reductions came from … cuts to education." Can we get to 2/3rds of the Council for a just budget?https://t.co/NKcNsgzfgO— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) June 2, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
jon i am inclined to think that a white guy with a dog on a leash within a block of his home is less likely to be harassed than anyone, you should be okay
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
big box storesand on white trash assesfifth avenue chainsreified in praxis
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
Bergdorf GoodmanSaks Fifth AveBadgley MischkaI can have
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
Nobody's voting for this guy right?
!!! @RepEliotEngel heard on hot mic asking @rubendiazjr for a turn to speak, says twice, "If I didn't have a primary, I wouldn't care."Diaz responds, "Don't do that to me."(h/t @News12BX livestream) pic.twitter.com/eQnkzLiEId— Emily Ngo (@emilyngo) June 2, 2020
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
Washington Square Park, Manhattan New York June 2nd 2:40pm #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/KewRgGu7Io— Steven Thomas (@stevendotthomas) June 2, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
excited to find out how many delivery/restaurant people get vanished by NYPD/ICE tonite
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Cuomo is really a much savvier fascist than Trump
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/cuomo-claims-he-could-remove-de-blasio-but-wont-for-now.html
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
lmao what
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
they're idiots who deserve each other afaict
zero argument
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
https://twitter.com/hashtag/offthebridge
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 04:27 (three years ago) link
don't live there so i'll take his word for it
At Barclays Center now. Very calm situation. So far, the curfew is certainly helping, based on everything I’ve seen in Brooklyn and Manhattan over the last three hours.— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) June 3, 2020
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 04:50 (three years ago) link
translates mostly as 'tourist zone had a safe night'
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:10 (three years ago) link
NY Post hed is SAKS SAFE so we can all sigh safely
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:40 (three years ago) link
It did seem quieter on the police scanner as well fwiw
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
whenever pols use hyperbole now ("very calm situation") I think of Trump. Ugh
― calstars, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
He has poisoned the word ‘very’ for sure
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
"I'm reminded of the song 'Imagine' by John Lennon," @NYCMayor says— katie honan (@katie_honan) June 3, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
there it is
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
imagine there's no Target
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
Just imagine if this year's hottest high end fashions were looted and started to be worn by the poor! They'd have to create a whole season of replacement fashions, and how could that be done during COVID!
― Bnad, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
sharing all the burrrberry, yoo-hoohoohoohoo
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
http://lettertothemayor.nyc/
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
Gracie Mansion being marched on
hope Bill is holed up at Saks
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
pshaw, it'd be more effective to march on the park slope y
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 June 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
that's the cop unions' assembly spot
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
The NLG-NYC has confirmed: The NYPD’s Intelligence Division & the FBI are questioning people arrested at the recent New York City protests about their political beliefs and affiliations, among other things.REMEMBER: YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS TO REMAIN SILENT AND TO TALK WITH A LAWYER pic.twitter.com/HsOGaE567B— Gideon Orion Oliver (@gideonoliver) June 4, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
you sent him the wrong video https://t.co/5MD2oM3lwj— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) June 5, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
Is this guy lying or delusional? There's no third option. https://t.co/6vfiWXHiGb— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) June 4, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
the light touch:
https://gothamist.com/news/live-protest-updates-june-4
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 12:23 (three years ago) link
Shea directing the brutality in the Bronx. Fire and incarcerate him.
@NYPDChiefofDept was here for all of this. Here he is ordering the arrest of Shannon Jones as the group behind him gets kettled https://t.co/1O9JqdXyHz https://t.co/r5Mbi0Q4tm— Jake Offenhartz (@jangelooff) June 5, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
In an editorial entitled "Mayor de Blasio, Open Your Eyes. The Police Are Out of Control," published by the Times on Thursday night, the paper's editorial board urges the mayor to either regain control of his police department, or fire his police commissioner, Dermot Shea.
"Mr. de Blasio appears unwilling to confront the reality that the department is failing to meet the demands of this moment. Officers have been allowed to behave in a manner that disgraces their mission to protect and serve, and violates the public trust," the board writes. "The mayor is allowing that to happen."
"If [Shea] cannot maintain control of his officers, Mr. de Blasio must find someone who can."
On at his daily press conference on Friday, Mayor de Blasio once again offered a fulsome defense of the NYPD's actions on Thursday night, while denying a Gothamist reporter's version of events that he personally witnessed.
https://gothamist.com/news/live-protest-updates-june-5-2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
DeBlasio needs to dominate the space
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 June 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/nyregion/coronavirus-leaving-nyc.html
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Friday, 5 June 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
it's afraid of the cops too
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 June 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZshXMAX0AkMiq1?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
hahaha
― voodoo chili, Friday, 5 June 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
At a joint press conference on Friday afternoon, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Brooklyn City Councilmember Brad Lander attempted to explain what they saw last night after they joined a protest in Fort Greene. After 10 p.m., the NYPD had kettled hundreds of protesters onto Washington Avenue, and mass arrests and violence seemed imminent, until Williams and Lander intervened, and police released demonstrators 20 at a time.
"The night before and the night before that, I saw things I can't explain," Williams said. "The mayor is delusional," Williams added. "I don't know what else to say."
Councilmember Lander said that the mayor's curfew "makes the enforcement arbitrary and capricious and random and escalates the violence," and he called it counterproductive and unconstitutional.
Asked about Mayor de Blasio refusal to acknowledge that peaceful protesters are being beaten night after night on the streets of New York City, despite the numerous accounts from protesters and journalists, Lander replied, "The mayor is gaslighting the people of New York City right now. And it really is dangerous."
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
Lander and Williams are my NY pols of choice
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
the great dream is for De Blasio to resign, which would make Williams the mayor. sigh.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 5 June 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
apparently in December Williams said that he wouldn't be running for mayor in 2021?
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
i guess the city really is dead
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZw51OgXkAIrT0N?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
lady i've never heard of doesn't want to live here is okay by me
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WhoppingNaturalGardensnake-max-1mb.gif
― voodoo chili, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
she's a federalist person who once wrote We Need To Start Befriending Neo Nazis
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
a beckyexodus would kill nyc
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
bexodus
― voodoo chili, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
bexit, obvsit would kill sephora at least
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
she also got "grandma killer" trending on twitter
― Dan S, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
‘82 vibes around the city
― calstars, Friday, 5 June 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
BdB a drowning man
https://gothamist.com/news/heres-full-transcript-mayor-de-blasio-brian-lehrer-show
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
not sure what it's going to take. maybe a walkout by his entire staff? seems possible
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 June 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
he'll only resign if cuomo tells him not to
― voodoo chili, Friday, 5 June 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
on repeat, a balm for the soul
“New York City is Trump country now! Get me outta here and you win a prize!”Someone won the prize. pic.twitter.com/GmeRZlfZK3— Damon Young (@damonayoung) June 5, 2020
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 June 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
haha brainless fuck
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
Lol I expected that to be way more violentThis curfew blows
― badg, Friday, 5 June 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
that dude looks like dril
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 6 June 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
You know what the title of that book should be? "Yes, I Can If Andrew Cuomo Says It's OK". 'Cause Andrew calls the shots for all of those guys. Did you get to the part yet where uh...Bill is coming out of the Copa... it's about 3 o'clock in the morning and, uh, he sees Andrew? Andrew's walking down Broadway by himself...
― calstars, Saturday, 6 June 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
<puts up dividing window>
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 6 June 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
The curfew is creepy as fuck
― treeship., Saturday, 6 June 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
Purge alarm on my phone every night at 7:30. Hate this year.
how many years in a row have we said fuck this year. is it 4, or more
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Saturday, 6 June 2020 02:59 (three years ago) link
I've been saying it since 2014, for various personal reasons. the last year I'd consider "good" for me was 2012. Not saying that as a 'joek' either.
kinda explains why my alcohol intake increased around that same time.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 June 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
We live in an endless 2016
― treeship., Saturday, 6 June 2020 03:05 (three years ago) link
kinda feels like it sometimes. weirdly enough in October of 2016, I was finally starting to feel better than I had in a long time, only for November to permanently ruin that
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 June 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
come on guys let's flatten the curve we can do this before 2037 https://t.co/aPRYVAJNui pic.twitter.com/zWgG2stpu1— justin jacoby smith (@hoosteen) June 5, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 June 2020 15:20 (three years ago) link
Blas lifts tonight's curfew
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 June 2020 12:07 (three years ago) link
Timothy "STEEN" Levitch in The HOOS
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Sunday, 7 June 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
No transportation plan, no bus lanes, no bike lanes, but you don’t have to move the car you never use. What a failure. https://t.co/iW7XHF9mXC— Doug Gordon (@BrooklynSpoke) June 7, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 June 2020 12:01 (three years ago) link
TBF, hasn't DeBlasio created a bunch of bike and bus lanes?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 8 June 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
I mean I hate the fucker too, but I know he added bike lanes running the length of queens blvd for example
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
sorry man alive, your question was sincere and deserves a real answer. basically he has dropped the ball completely on bike lanes, compared to any city of the same size and resources and even compared to the bloomberg administration. look at what the mayor of Paris has been doing for example - a massive, comprehensive, and infrastructurally useful bike network being very rapidly rolled out as part of an actual vision for what they want urban life to be like. in NYC, admittedly there's been some progress on bus lanes, but it's largely not coming from the mayor, who wishes and washes publicly anytime it comes up. in practice he has been a huge obstacle by constantly falling back on "we'll have to look closely at that" and letting community boards block needed improvements on a slow, slow case-by-case basis, instead of saying "my department of transportation has been instructed to put out a master plan."
and both bus lanes and bike lanes depend on enforcement to be effective, so that they are not constantly full of parked cars and/or parked cop cars. but because traffic enforcement was merged with the NYPD in the 90s, enforcement would require the mayor giving orders to the police department, the mere thought of which will lead BDB to weeks of waking up in cold sweats, after which he emerges as if from a fever dream with no memory of the terribly traumatic thought that prompted it all. meanwhile of course such efforts would also require seeing the city as something that people get around with without the use of private automobiles, which is utterly foreign to the mayor's lived experience. note how that tweet describes a less onerous car-ownership status quo as one that "make(s) life a little easier for all of us." all? this is a city in which only 45% of households own cars and only 27% of workers use a car, truck or van for their daily commute. the only way suspending alternate side parking benefits "all" of us is less car noise and exhaust, at the expense of garbage accumulating in the streets and blocking the storm drains because the street sweepers aren't running. he's a driver and identifies with drivers. in terms of transportation policy, he might as well have just run for Mayor of Staten Island.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 8 June 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
if you want more invective along these lines, follow @StreetsBlogNYC, @2AvSagas, and/or @BrooklynSpoke on Twitter - pretty much a daily stream of ways the mayor is failing us on transportation issues, and what he could be doing instead.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 8 June 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
booming post doc
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
^
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
cosign!! go off DC!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
in general fuck cars
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 8 June 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
lol SAY IT DOCTOR.
There's literally a whole ig account of just cop cars parked in bike lanes, that's how stupid it all is.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 8 June 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
this is a city in which only 45% of households own cars
this is startlingly high tbh!
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 8 June 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
https://edc.nyc/sites/default/files/filemanager/CarOwnership.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
https://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/legacy/2012/05/16/20120516-map-nyc.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
Ta!
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
It's not that striking when you see how many areas have poor or no subway access.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
Also when you look at the difficulty of commutes that are not __ to central parts of manhattan (brooklyn-queens, queens-bronx, etc.)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
I meant startling to a person who has visited the city four or five times :)
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Monday, 8 June 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
fun fact: car ownership is higher in san francisco than it is in los angeles.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 June 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
artnet News: Blue-Chip Galleries Are Fleeing Manhattan to Set Up Shop in the Tony Hamptons. Will It Be More Than a Summer Romance?.https://news.artnet.com/market/hamptons-art-galleries-1881849
― brian emo (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/svLPraKcDsQ/hqdefault.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
shop for art, go to the Hamptons, attend the Tonys my god what is this paradise
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
NYC Health advice discourages casual sex during COVID, but also says if you’re going to have it: “Be creative with sexual positions and physical barriers, like walls, that allow sexual contact while preventing close face to face contact.” https://t.co/3GG3C2dzTm— Josh Barro (@jbarro) June 10, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
"NYC Dept of Health Recommends Glory Holes" not on my 2020 apocalypse bingo card but don't hate the player
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
yes!! the word rimming was in there!
― brian emo (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
one of the things i've learned from All Gas No Breaks (via the Talladega episode) is that everyone under the age of 40 eats ass and likes to talk about it.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
millennials can eat a little ass as a treat
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
at the risk of oversharing in the wrong threadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk6rSPnLOLE
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
it might be time for an AGNB / currents in video journalism thread
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
nvm there's the youtubers thread already
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
.@NYCMayor says his critics, including former allies like @JumaaneWilliams and @DRichards13, don't "really understand the reality of New York City."— Julia Marsh (@juliakmarsh) June 12, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 June 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
yikes
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 12 June 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
what a nuanced take
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 12 June 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
Ruh-roh
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
Oh, please do splain to us kind Mr. Mayor sir.For the record:I am city-wide elected official, after serving on the @NYCCouncilI was educated in the NYC Public School System, Pre-school to MastersAnd, BTW, I was born, raised and spent my entire life here....how about you? https://t.co/eLjpHRYVa1— Jumaane Williams (@JumaaneWilliams) June 12, 2020
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 13 June 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
apart from his utter uselessness, it's astonishing how bad a politician he is
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 June 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
Light that fucker up
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 13 June 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
Go go jumaane
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 June 2020 04:00 (three years ago) link
DeBlasio of course grew up in Cambridge MA, assume that is well-known
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 13 June 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
As I understand it, this is a free country. A man can live where he wants.
― peace, man, Saturday, 13 June 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
and yet, poor de blasio remains trapped here, in a city which he holds in complete contempt :(
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
This is literally an argument for abolition. https://t.co/2GEqgniRoV— David Kaib (@DavidKaib) June 12, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/investigating-nypd-misconduct-during-protests-and-will-it-matter
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 June 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
separate voice of progressive hope here:https://www.bkreader.com/2020/06/10/state-lawmakers-repeal-50-a-pass-sweeping-police-reform
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 June 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
This is finehttps://gothamist.com/food/photos-pandemic-fatigued-new-yorkers-turn-nyc-into-bourbon-street
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
more empty apartments on the way!
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
Dopey fucks
― calstars, Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
Cellino and Barnes have broken up. For real this time. https://t.co/ph6EAG5VN3— Pat Kiernan (@patkiernan) June 15, 2020
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
Cellino and the Mad Dog
― calstars, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-de-blasio-sick-coronavirus-test-no-covid19for fuck's sake man, just get tested! you see more people than anyone!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
it doesn't make sense. it takes 5 seconds.
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
what's up with the fireworks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:01 (three years ago) link
there are Theories, and i wouldn't even be surprised if they were correct
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link
i am accustomed to my neighbors shooting off fireworks at unforeseen times but rarely for a straight week
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:06 (three years ago) link
and their fireworks usually make a few cool sounds. most of these are just really obnoxious boomings
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
my response to it (as with most things) is to crank the a/c
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 June 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
what are the Theories??
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 21 June 2020 05:29 (three years ago) link
cops
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 June 2020 05:56 (three years ago) link
Gentrification
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 June 2020 06:03 (three years ago) link
people had more time to cultivate their fireworks during quarantine and they’re sprouting early
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Sunday, 21 June 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 12:50 (three years ago) link
https://www.firehouse.com/stations/video/21142776/video-fdny-firefighters-ignite-illegal-fireworks-at-station
A group of FDNY firefighters are accused of setting off illegal fireworks at a Brooklyn fire station.The pyrotechnic display was caught on video by a Crown Heights resident who was passing by Ladder 123 at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, the New York Post reports.The video shows firefighters at the station lighting a firework display that sparked.“I thought it was young kids lighting it. And there are. But then I see the firefighters doing it—they should know better,” the 33-year-old resident told the Post.
The pyrotechnic display was caught on video by a Crown Heights resident who was passing by Ladder 123 at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, the New York Post reports.The video shows firefighters at the station lighting a firework display that sparked.
“I thought it was young kids lighting it. And there are. But then I see the firefighters doing it—they should know better,” the 33-year-old resident told the Post.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Sunday, 21 June 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
Have also seen somewhere that the type of fireworks being used cost about $250 per pop, so it doesn't seem likely that neighborhood teens have that kind of cash flow? Not knocking alternative explanations, but given the defund/abolish pressure and movement right know I would not put ANYTHING beyond the NYPD.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Sunday, 21 June 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
Some of the detonations I’ve heard in my neighborhood have surpassed anything I’ve learned to expect from m-80s, cherry bombs etc. deep, horizon filling booms
― gnarled and turbid sinuses (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah I've seen that talked about, that the noises are more like munitions and not like "oooh, fireworks!" and it's setting the affected areas up as war zones.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
it has been fairly nonstop. finding boxes of spent fireworks on corners and on overpasses. I think it's mostly just kids tbh? There's a world of pent up energy and attitude that's gotta go somewhere. Though yes, i wouldn't put anything past nypd.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
It's very weird. I read this piece, which seemed to suggest that one theory was that it was white gentrifiers complaining more about something that happens every year
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/flatbush-brooklyn-fireworks-nypd-police-blm
Other people see it the other way around:
White people in Washington Heights: "It's like this every year."Black/Brown people in Washington Heights: "It has never been like this EVER before. This is some NEXT-LEVEL, scheduled, coordinated shit!"— Son of Baldwin (Robert Jones, Jr.) (@SonofBaldwin) June 20, 2020
It literally sounded like a truckload of fireworks had gone off at once at one point in my street last night (I'm at the Crown Heights side of Prospect Lefferts Gardens. It doesn't bother me that much personally but it's just so weird, the number of them, like yeah, it must cost a fortune.
― Alba, Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
british kids set off fireworks for a good two weeks before guy fawkes day - so why not two weeks before july 4?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
well, this would be the first time i've ever experienced it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
i don't really buy that it's the cops but who knows
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
In a facebook group I'm in people have been reporting them everywhere from wealthy westchester county ny suburbs to charlottesville va, so I don't think it's some kind of terror campaign against black and brown communities, but who the fuck knows. One theory is just that people are bored and cooped up and there are already usually amateur fireworks this time of year, so there's just a lot more. Firework stores have reported upticks in sales.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
I certainly wouldn't rule out a more nefarious explanation, but social media has a tendency to need to give everything a nefarious explanation
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
there was one crazy night about a week ago I heard outside the hospital, but I don't know the norms for El Barrio
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 June 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
We’ve been hearing fireworks for about a couple weeks here in northwest DC. Big shows the night of juneteenth. I assume it’s neighborhood folks having fun with their stockpiles leading up to July 4, which isn’t uncommon.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
Tracer, having lived in inner London through many a Guy Fawkes season, this is of a different order of intensity.
― Alba, Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
I am hearing the munitions dump explosion ones here in LA too for the first time fwiw
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/everything-you-need-know-about-phase-2-reopening-nyc
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
*Boom* *pop*
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
what on earth
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbJHpw9XgAEilV4?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
fuck that sideways
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
Are they going to raise the price of a slice of pizza to $9 too?
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Just imagine how many cops they can pay overtime to for standing at the turnstiles to enforce the new fare.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
it's a nonstarter of an idea insofar as it would shut down every restaurant in the city.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 22 June 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
Just got offered my first fireworks in the street. Passed up the opportunity to ask him if he was being supplied by the Feds.
― Alba, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
you just became a real new yorker
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 June 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
wtf is with these people and blowing shit up
https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/macys-fireworks-2020-nyc.html
As New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio puts together an entire task force to crack down on the illegal fireworks bored kids have been setting off across the city, he’s also green-lighting a week of Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks shows across each of the five boroughs starting June 29. “In reimagining this year’s show, the idea of bringing elements to many parts of our hometown resonated with our team and partners in the City of New York,” Susan Tercero, executive producer of Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks show, said in a statement to ABC 7. The fireworks will be set off at a “high elevation, unannounced” to prevent people from gathering to watch them. There will be five minutes of explosions, with no warning, each night leading up to July 4’s televised grand finale, which will feature the “best of” the previous five nights.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
Wait, that's satire, right?
"unannounced"
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
no, they're serious! Vulture's added their own layer of snark but it's factually accurate. Video here:https://abc7ny.com/society/macys-fireworks-in-nyc-will-be-a-series-of-smaller-displays/6261681/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
it is dumb as fuck!
It really is, incredible that would be their response. I did hear of some Chicago suburbs that are talking about spreading out and doing smaller displays to reduce congregating to watch but, afaik, those are all scheduled and announced.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
the pure tone deafness of siccing the cops on kids in the streets but okaying a major corporation to do THE SAME SHIT
https://patch.com/new-york/bed-stuy/fireworks-complaints-not-job-cops-brooklyn-pols-say
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
too easy to imagine the police in that article telling people to call a community group for support having a shit-eating grin on his face, as he says it
― Nhex, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
i mean
The explosions heard in the Bronx are just PD controlled detonation of confescated fireworks at Rodmans Neck pic.twitter.com/PwK9pAxGV0— NYCFireWire (@NYCFireWire) June 22, 2020
NYPD conducted a controlled detonation on Rodman Neck to eliminate confiscated fireworks. That caused brush fire to breake out and had to extinguished by FDNY and Nassau County marine units from the water. Video by Daniel Valls (FNTV) d✧✧✧@scootercas✧✧✧.c✧✧ to license pic.twitter.com/O2re1s90yK— @SCOOTERCASTER (FNTV) (@ScooterCasterNY) June 22, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
gothamist with the A+ URLhttps://gothamist.com/news/between-illegal-fireworks-displays-every-borough-will-get-five-blissful-minutes-legal-fireworks-macys-fourth-july-celebration
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
pack it up
Times Square’s glitzy, four-story McDonald’s is permanently shutting down https://t.co/YxrB5KRgrv pic.twitter.com/q6XEuGKO5w— Eater NY (@EaterNY) June 24, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
it was, for a time, one of the few reliable bathrooms in times square. RIP
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
I was about to say bring back the Howard Johnson’s but that place was an overpriced deadzone. I remember being hungover one time with little cash and thinking I could hit the Hojo for some cheap breakfast. Fucking hell.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
xp lol yes it was
― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
it should be memorialized as a giant pit that anyone who can claim a new york residence can shit in
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
here's a terrible ideahttps://gothamist.com/news/mta-explores-use-artificial-intelligence-measure-mask-compliance-subways
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
https://comb.io/0GQX8r
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 26 June 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
Why are we moving towards indoor dining?Is it because we want no responsibility for the massive restaurant bankruptcies to come?This gives restaurants half full seating, enough so they can fail more slowly, while risking thousands of lives? Bail them out instead.— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) June 27, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
zephyr otm
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
for real. I mean, yeah, it'd piss off the needledicks who can't stand the idea of not being able to go out and get a pint, but restaurant owners could relax and pay their furloughed employees without fear.
but nooooooooo, that's not what made America great! so the federal government will probably just annex each restaurant as its own sovereign territory and deport all restaurant owners to Canada.
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
i'm really fucking glad my friend's cat cafe got an EIDL loan, but he's got such a low cost operation going, he was able to adjust and work with the landlord to stay afloat. restaurants that have to buy large volumes of food product/beverage product and have high overhead , I don't even wanna imagine.
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/4B9qfOB.jpg
― calstars, Monday, 29 June 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
Anyone have any tips on where these undisclosed locations are? They have to be on the waterfront somewhere around Manhattan right ? How could they keep this a secret?
― calstars, Monday, 29 June 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
Macy's Fireworks Are Playing at My House
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
unimaginable
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
last i heard nabes were gettin 'heads up' due to complaints by vets with PTSD
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
https://ny.eater.com/2020/6/29/21306893/indoor-dining-delay-nyc-coronavirusthis is probably the right call
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/a-black-market-fireworks-dealer-explains-this-years-boom
Last week, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a thin man in a white T-shirt and a wide-brimmed Chicago Bulls cap proudly popped the trunk of his Chevy Malibu. Inside, there were Golden Willows, Chain Reactions, Parachute Battalions, and Mini Artillery Shells—dozens of colorful boxes, one of them labelled “For Daytime Use!” This was what remained of the twelve hundred dollars’ worth of fireworks that the man, who asked not to be named, had purchased during a visit to Keystone Fireworks, in Pennsylvania, and then sold, for more than double the price, around Brooklyn. (Fireworks are illegal in New York State.) He takes calls for deliveries from regular customers, or parks on a busy street and does business, out of his car, with whoever stops by. “People have always done fireworks,” he said, “but they’re going harder than ever this year. They can’t wait to come outside.”“The money’s good,” the man in the Bulls cap said. This year, he sold in two days what would have normally taken him two weeks.His fireworks aren’t cheap; the fanciest ones in his trunk go for two hundred bucks. So most of his customers are adults—“people with money,” he said—rather than teen-agers. Nearly all of them are men. They tend to be in their late twenties or thirties, and sometimes, if they’re buying fireworks before the sun has set, they bring their kids with them. That night, the man gestured around at the neighborhood, which was coming off a four-month lockdown. “They’re celebrating,” he said of the people setting off the fireworks. “It’s definitely about freedom.”“I hope not” was all he had to say when asked if he thought police were shooting off fireworks. “We don’t need any more drama around here.”A few blocks over, a group of young men, probably in their twenties, launched a several-minutes-long blitz. They took turns darting from the sidewalk into the street to light streams of Roman candles, which they topped off with five-hundred-gram “cakes”: the largest firework that can be legally used without a federal explosives permit. People watched from their apartment buildings. One neighbor leaned out his window and begged the group to stop; the fireworks were scaring his dog. “Fuck your dog!” one of the men yelled back at him. “We will shoot these shits at your house!” Moments later, a cop car rolled up, and the group retreated.
“The money’s good,” the man in the Bulls cap said. This year, he sold in two days what would have normally taken him two weeks.
His fireworks aren’t cheap; the fanciest ones in his trunk go for two hundred bucks. So most of his customers are adults—“people with money,” he said—rather than teen-agers. Nearly all of them are men. They tend to be in their late twenties or thirties, and sometimes, if they’re buying fireworks before the sun has set, they bring their kids with them. That night, the man gestured around at the neighborhood, which was coming off a four-month lockdown. “They’re celebrating,” he said of the people setting off the fireworks. “It’s definitely about freedom.”
“I hope not” was all he had to say when asked if he thought police were shooting off fireworks. “We don’t need any more drama around here.”
A few blocks over, a group of young men, probably in their twenties, launched a several-minutes-long blitz. They took turns darting from the sidewalk into the street to light streams of Roman candles, which they topped off with five-hundred-gram “cakes”: the largest firework that can be legally used without a federal explosives permit. People watched from their apartment buildings. One neighbor leaned out his window and begged the group to stop; the fireworks were scaring his dog. “Fuck your dog!” one of the men yelled back at him. “We will shoot these shits at your house!” Moments later, a cop car rolled up, and the group retreated.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 June 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
new york city . . . lives
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 June 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
New study of Covid seroprevalence in New York by @florian_krammer and team; finds that 1:5 New Yorkers likely already had SARS-CoV-2 by late April and the infection fatality rate in New York City was about 0.7%. https://t.co/ekqxUuhGwv— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) June 29, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 29 June 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
finding it hard to believe regardless
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 29 June 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
Most of the estimates of ifr I saw that were being tossed about months ago based on Asian data were in the range of 0.5% to 1%. This fits.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 29 June 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
1 in 5 though?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
1 in 6 I think, obv far more likely
― time is running out to retweet boing.gif (sic), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
1 in 5 sounds like a lot but the important thing to note is that NYC wouldn't reach the coveted 'herd immunity' status until a bit less than 4 in 5 have had it. This finding only puts 'em a quarter of the way along. So, unless a vaccine comes along, you can take the current number of deaths in NYC and multiply by about 3 to get a rough estimate of how many more would likely die on the way to herd immunity, sans vaccine.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
can't believe it's been over 4 months since i've been in NYC! i can't imagine when I will be in there again for work or otherwise.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPQ16Asyoo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
sorry if this is stating the obvious but there's a large difference between 1% and 20%
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
20% is an estimated infection rate; 1% is estimated fatality rate
― Josefa, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
got it, the post didn't specify
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
From the documents, here's how the city council is characterizing the supposed $1B cut to the NYPD. The tally I've seen counts $42M in increased traffic/parking enforcement revenue as a cut, toward the $1B total pic.twitter.com/aynFiT0bJi— Yoav Gonen (@yoavgonen) June 30, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
hard to imagine how diblasio coulda fucked this up worse... everybody hates him now!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
oh no, our luxury Avenue is being denigrated
NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the @NYCMayor is going to paint a big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury Avenue. This will further antagonize New York’s Finest, who LOVE New York & vividly remember the....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
that might be the Trumpiest tweet ever
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, June 30, 2020 3:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
yeah he's even worse than the hated milk machine
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
suspect something Freudian with Trump's word choice
― below the mendoza (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
new york's finest love new york so much they live in different counties and states.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
cops LOVE this one luxury avenue
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
― below the mendoza (rip van wanko), Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:25 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
oh fuck just saw it
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
"no YOURE the racist how could you think that"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
subconscious maybe or Stephen Miller's handiwork? hard to imagine him ptting that much thought into these inanities but who knows
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
Plenty to criticize NYC cops about, choosing not to live in NYC isn't one of them
― badg, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
can't believe they're gonna paint a YELLOW sign on luxurious fifth avenue
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
all cops everywhere should be required to live in the communities they ostensibly serve, and not actively wanting to should be a disqualifier
― this luxury Avenue (sic), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
it's hard though when complaints force your relocation to another department
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
given that we are now about an hour in to July 5, perhaps we can stop with the motherfucking fireworks already
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 5 July 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
4:30 AM “wake up” call. Yup, I’m up now!
― calstars, Sunday, 5 July 2020 11:14 (three years ago) link
https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/more-than-1300-nyc-covid-19-victims-awaiting-burial-in-freezers
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
https://bklyner.com/new-york-jobless-face-new-woes-with-end-of-600-pandemic-unemployment-assistance/dunno man, they need to address this in the next two weeks or there's gonna be a citywide rent strike
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 11 July 2020 01:53 (three years ago) link
Where the f is everybody? Quiet today
― calstars, Saturday, 11 July 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
People think it’s going to rain? Lightweights
weather is for old people
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 July 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
Right?
― calstars, Saturday, 11 July 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
we are old people tho
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 July 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
i was hoping no one would notice
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 July 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
weather doesn’t exist
― calstars, Saturday, 11 July 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ec0hChBXoAAeb08?format=jpg&name=large
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 July 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
AJ Parkinson would be proud
― calstars, Monday, 13 July 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
EUROPEANS
― seandalai, Monday, 13 July 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
http://80s.nyc/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
That's pretty cool. My neighborhood looked so much grottier back then. I wish the photos were a bit sharper though - they're like tantalizing glimpses.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
WHY ARE THESE PHOTOS SO SMALL/GRAINY?The Finance Department recorded each 1980s print as one frame on Laser Video Disks (LVDs), using analog video capture. When the Archives obtained possession of the photo set, they extracted low-resolution TIFF files of each LVD frame. This site uses the low-res JPG thumbnails of these TIFFs.The underlying photos of individual buildings represented by these thumbnails won’t win any prizes for technical merit. They’re small, grainy, washed out and often the buildings might be unrecognizable. Still, taken as a whole, the thumbnails paint a distinctive picture of New York City in the 1980s – in many places, recovering from near-bankruptcy in the prior decade which left hulks of burned-out buildings and garbage-strewn lots; in other places, hanging on to the grandeur and glory of the greatest city in the world.
The Finance Department recorded each 1980s print as one frame on Laser Video Disks (LVDs), using analog video capture. When the Archives obtained possession of the photo set, they extracted low-resolution TIFF files of each LVD frame. This site uses the low-res JPG thumbnails of these TIFFs.
The underlying photos of individual buildings represented by these thumbnails won’t win any prizes for technical merit. They’re small, grainy, washed out and often the buildings might be unrecognizable. Still, taken as a whole, the thumbnails paint a distinctive picture of New York City in the 1980s – in many places, recovering from near-bankruptcy in the prior decade which left hulks of burned-out buildings and garbage-strewn lots; in other places, hanging on to the grandeur and glory of the greatest city in the world.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
fascinating to see that my building already had this ugly green siding on it in the mid-80s
The tax assessment photos they did in the 1940s look a lot clearer - those are online too
― Josefa, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
https://abc7ny.com/covid-19-news-update-nj-face-masks-in/6308656/this leaves me fucked
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
ouch sorry U
but it looked inevitable lately
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
the stupid thing is that post-protest it's becoming clear that open air, masked events are relatively safe. this is political.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
pretty cool that not a single major arts institution in new york can lift a finger to help la monte young and marian zazeela keep the dreamhouse alive.https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/save-the-dream-house-keep-our-dream-alive/melafoundationincdreamhouse?utm_campaign=ocdonate&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=crowdrise&fbclid=IwAR2hA8LF6DemHCSsHy89tjsS5kIWc2EX2sXVedPEQgWxazr9qaK2_dXJz9w
― ian, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
?utm_campaign=ocdonate&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=crowdrise&fbclid=IwAR2hA8LF6DemHCSsHy89tjsS5kIWc2EX2sXVedPEQgWxazr9qaK2_dXJz9w
― bat ain't Thad (sic), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
de Blasio, NYPD clear Occupy City Hall
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-clears-occupy-city-hall-pre-dawn-raid
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 13:16 (three years ago) link
de blasio retire bitch
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
queens bringing some masala to the legislature!!!! https://t.co/25bBXU7bSQ— fainan 🧹 (@socialistfai) July 22, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
https://ny.eater.com/2020/8/5/21354365/nyc-prospect-park-homemade-cocktail-sale
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/nyregion/nyc-economy-chain-stores.html
“There’s no reason to do business in New York,” Mr. Weinstein said. “I can do the same volume in Florida in the same square feet as I would have in New York, with my expenses being much less. The idea was that branding and locations were important, but the expense of being in this city has overtaken the marketing group that says you have to be there.”For four months, the Victoria’s Secret flagship store at Herald Square in Manhattan has been closed and not paying its $937,000 monthly rent. “It will be years before retail has even a chance of returning to New York City in its pre-Covid form,” the retailer’s parent company recently told its landlord in a legal document.
For four months, the Victoria’s Secret flagship store at Herald Square in Manhattan has been closed and not paying its $937,000 monthly rent. “It will be years before retail has even a chance of returning to New York City in its pre-Covid form,” the retailer’s parent company recently told its landlord in a legal document.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
unrelated but still:https://ny.eater.com/2020/8/11/21361791/sour-patch-kids-store-opens-noho
The company’s first brick-and-mortar operations includes plans for a candy-fueled cafe, slinging unasked-for creations like a milkshake topped with a slice of rainbow cake and Sour Patch Kids-flavored cookie dough, the latter of which has been created in partnership with popular cookie dough brand Do.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
not paying its $937,000 monthly rent
welcome to the resistance
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
“ not paying its $937,000 monthly rent. “It will be years before retail has even a chance of returning to New York City in its pre-Covid form,” the retailer’s parent company recently told its landlord in a legal document.”
stfu dingdong
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
so yeah why would anyone wan't to live in NYC at this point?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
Sigh big retail is gone there Goes the neighborhood
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
what exactly is going to fill those spaces is my question, more overpriced office buildings after people have been working remote for most of the year?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
paying crazy rent in a tiny apt to do what this winter when there isn't even outside dining or outside activities?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
I have a colleague who predicts unoccupied retail spaces are going to be taken over by well-armed homeless people during the next few months
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
Hmm. I don’t think anyone has ever considered such a perspective! Go on...
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
Xp to carne
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
fuck me for bring it up then! you got it all figured out no need to discuss further
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
obviously no one has it figured out and obviously there's some big questions we're all asking each other at the same time.one of those questions is decidedly not "how will victoria's secret survive"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
Sorry carne, just spitting some trash
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
i don't give one fuck about those stores. Im just here wondering wtf i'm doing paying out of my ass to live within a 20 min train ride of a place i don't see myself going back to either for work or any other reason anytime soon.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Testify!
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
on the other hand i always hear the stories from old school New Yorkers of how wild and awesome 80's nyc was. maybe we'll get back to that and i can vibe
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
bad news, all the old school wild awesomeness depended on strangers gathering in interior spaces
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
also coke
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
also Koch
― Thicc Nhat Wanh (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
Now we’re taking!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
Talking
Manhattan keeps on making it, Brooklyn keeps on taking itBronx keeps creating it, and Queens keeps on faking it
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLVlIJmYaS8
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
this motherfucker
Ice cream truck keeps plowing into NYC street barrier https://t.co/j2Sqyus6jj pic.twitter.com/QBR0OzUNIQ— New York Post (@nypost) August 12, 2020
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
that's exactly what i figured he'd look like
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
Street closings are routinely disregarded from what I’ve seen. Some people get uppity and try to close them off again after the barricades have been moved but a minute later some other douche with a car comes and decides that the closure is not applicable to him so he moves the barricades ...and so forth
― ncxkd, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
yeah I'm pretty aggro about setting them back up in my area but it's gotten to the point where I can really only worry about my section of the world. setting barricades back up in deep carrol gardens is disheartening
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
BdB admits there could be 22,000 layoffs, none of them cops
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/08/12/de-blasio-threat-of-22-000-layoffs-is-painfully-real-1307983
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
This Mayor🤦🏾♂️- a few things (THREAD):- Sunset Park is one of the hardest hit communities by COVID-19- Nearly half its residents are immigrants, and 3/4 people of color- It's been neglected for years by the Mayor, and now is being underfunded by the Council b/c of politics https://t.co/NlzUjJKhFa— Carlos Menchaca 萬齊家 (@NYCCouncil38) August 12, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
menchaca (generally) otm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 13 August 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/food/de-blasio-turns-his-back-chinatown-bakery-manager-he-pleads-help
A bakery manager tells de Blasio that his business is suffering from reduced foot traffic in Chinatown: “We’re all hurting.” pic.twitter.com/9qCLi2IOXX— elizabeth meryl rosner (@elizameryl) August 11, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 13 August 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
“That’s very unfortunate,” responds the mayor as he turns his back on the young man.— elizabeth meryl rosner (@elizameryl) August 11, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1CJuzpuca4
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 August 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
Young man, there's a place you can goI said, young man, when you're short on your dough
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 14 August 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
please allow me to resubmit:
As the mayor told the baker: “Young man, there’s a place you can go when you’re short on your dough”.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 14 August 2020 10:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/opinion/jerry-seinfeld-new-york-coronavirus.html
this is like if nyt just had a field on the Op Ed page where readers could paste in their own pieces
― syphilitic wolf prose errata (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 24 August 2020 11:34 (three years ago) link
Millionaire takes other lesser-known millionaire to task for not being optimistic enough
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 24 August 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/08/car-runs-into-outdoor-dining-upper-east-side.htmlthis is gonna happen again with fatalities.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
Fucking ban cars in the city already
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
rt
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
another one that takes the thread title seriouslyhttps://gothamist.com/news/high-tech-tool-city-testing-air-quality-public-schools-toilet-paper
i can only upload 140 seconds of it, but the full version can be found on facebook. DM me if you’d like, i can see if i can send the full through there. pic.twitter.com/Q3yY1y9vEv— the DOE wants us dead (@dianadoesnt) August 26, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 27 August 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
Update: "Ventilation Action Teams are comprised of licensed professional engineers who are analyzing building ventilation components to determine if they are functioning and what, if any, repairs must be made," DOE spokesperson Nathaniel Styer said in a statement. "This includes a 'tissue test' which is a CDC recommended way of determining airflow. Air quality tests will be conducted with certified CO2 readers. The Council Member should reach out to us with his concerns before jumping to conclusions on the internet."
― calstars, Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
IOW, yes we use toilet paper to test ventilation and we are proud of it
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/09/make-expanded-outdoor-dining-permanent-in-nyc.html
what could possibly go wro-https://people.com/human-interest/car-crashes-outdoor-dining-area-nyc-3-injured/https://nypost.com/2020/08/27/video-shows-woman-hit-by-car-while-dining-outdoors-in-nyc/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OSw6wHN0RM
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
three different incidents btw. there's been at least a half dozen of these with no one killed yet, but let's keep trying!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
make outdoor dining permanent, ban cars
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
otm
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
yes! all in favor! however, that is not being discussed, either in that article or in real life!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
make me the mayor then
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
done
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
brb, establishing 17 various "aggro dipshit" taxes on the NYPBA
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
I learned yesterday that breweries have a less strict food serving requirement and can get away with just a bag of chips with a drink
― calstars, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
Century 21 is closing all stores
― Josefa, Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
where am i gonna get my armani t shirts and bedazzled boot cut jeans at bargain prices now
― adam, Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
honestly thought they closed a few years ago
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
make outdoor dining daylight saving time permanent, ban cars
:)
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 11 September 2020 05:14 (three years ago) link
the mayor also endorses staying on daylight saving time
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Friday, 11 September 2020 06:09 (three years ago) link
just curious, I haven't been to NYC in years, but was Century 21 destroyed in 9/11 or just damaged?
― naked and sexually active alien (rip van wanko), Friday, 11 September 2020 07:24 (three years ago) link
If I recall correctly It was closed for awhile like everything else down there but wasn’t damaged
― calstars, Friday, 11 September 2020 10:35 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/pandemic-economy-could-turn-deserted-hudson-yards-even-bigger-taxpayer-money-pit
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
that place was horrible before the pandemic
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
I say wall it off permanently, for the quarantined and convalescing
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
i'm voting lazer tag
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
would prefer paintball, with bunkers like Vera Wang Bridal House—but yes that'll do
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 17 September 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
I’m into dead malls and such so it’s right down my alley, been meaning to go back since it reopened
― calstars, Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
i have no particular insight into whether nyc schools *should* be open for in-person classes -- i suspect not, but i don't have to balance the other considerations besides everyone's health. but suddenly changing your mind three days before schools were to reopen is just fucking with people
he is so bad at literally everything
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
presumably it's a combination of the union and his terribleness at negotiating with the union or with anyone really
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
My impression is that there are bad conditions in a minority of classrooms that could probably be remedied with a portable HEPA filter or something (i.e classes in old buildings where there are neither HVAC systems nor windows that open). I have also seen that the MORE caucus of the UFT is making unreasonable demands (MERV-17 filters and ACH 6 in every class, which is basically the conditions of a state-of-the-art operating room or precision robotics lab, and very hard to achieve). I am normally very pro-teachers union, but I really feel that the teachers here are kicking the can down the road and trying to avoid going in for as long as possible, and while I can't *entirely* blame them, it's not realistic to wait to reopen schools until there's a vaccine, and experts say we can return safely with modest precautions.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
Kicking the can down the road until other school systems all around us and around the country collapse and go back to distanced/digital classes is EXACTLY the point. I knew that when the union treated the 11-day delay like a win in the press. There was nothing substantive that 11 days was going to to allow them to do--they can't hire 2x the qualified staff, they can't find more money, they can't renovate buildings or rebuild windows or HVAC systems in that time--so what was the point? The delay was the whole reason, because cases are going to cascade when students start to gather, and schools everywhere are going to go back to 100% online.
My second school is one of the 56 (so far) schools where a staff member has tested positive before kids even start. So multiple staff are quarantined bc of potential contact, and the remainder had their building wifi crash. Instead of getting the wifi fixed, they were told to go down the street and work from out of my first school, but because they don't know who's potentially asymptomatic, they won't go in the building because it puts the OTHER school's staff at risk, so they're teaching from folding tables on the cement play yard. Fantastic.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
MORE is speaking from the fringe of the UFT btw because they can say things that can't be taken as the official UFT position. And it would be stupid to go into any negotiation only asking for what you think you can get. That's 101.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
Of course, but you also don't start with an absurd position. I am involved in negotiations all the time, and we would never demand a settlement we know a company is financially incapable of covering.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 September 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
In any case, that may happen, or it may not. Many school systems are open around the world without having had explosions in cases necessitating re-closing. How long does that need to *not* happen for us to decide it's safe to go back in person? Because even a vaccine isn't going to entirely prevent outbreaks.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 September 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
If you work for the NYC DOE and have kids you're basically fucked. You have to go into the school where you work, even though it is empty, and your kids do...what? You just pay huge amounts on childcare for them, even though you probably can't afford that on a teacher's salary. Why not let those people work remotely? Is there any advantage to having them in a school building?
And any news on the program announced to help out with stuff like this seems to have gone completely silent: https://www.schools.nyc.gov/enrollment/enrollment-help/learning-bridges
― Position Position, Thursday, 17 September 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
TBF, even teaching from home does not really enable you to care for your kids and you may wind up needing childcare anyway, especially if they are younger and not able to 100% manage remote school on their own. Source: my wife is an NYC DOE teacher.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 September 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
Yeah, my wife is an NYC DOE teacher too. Friend of ours is a single mom and a teacher in NYC. She would rather take the chance of managing both kids + job from home and save the $$$ if possible (especially as she can't really afford it). But her principal is giving her a hard no on WFH.
― Position Position, Thursday, 17 September 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
Yeah I get it, a tightrope juggling act is still better than not being able to make rent. But it sucks.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 17 September 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPWfaIUnvdg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
https://not911.nyc/app
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
Intriguing. From a cursory glance at their website it looks like they're tech bros who describe themselves as "bleeding edge" so ymmv. Possibly nicer than your average tech bro, but...a lot may depend on how well they do their outreach homework to partner with actual community-based frontline groups.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
pretty bare bones really and more of a suggestion for a future app than a fully functioning piece of work but any option is likely better than the cops right now.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
Well sure. It's an interesting idea that needs to be backed up by adequate resources to be affective.
There are lots of online community resource databases--some are geographically arranged, some are searchable by type of resource...some are proprietary, some are public. Single Stop, Aunt Bertha, I forget more names right now but...the idea is out there. The problem in my experience is having them actually connect to sufficient, relevant resources in the community where they're needed.
Taking that model from a service agency "secret" to a public-facing tool is interesting! But did it need a whole new group to "invent" it?
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
Please excuse my skepticism--I've been to so many workshops over the years that promise to somehow reveal new and amazing resources, and it's just another one of these things. I mean, they're GOOD as far as they go, but imo they all end up falling short, partly because the RESOURCES AREN'T THERE to meet people's needs.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
yes and yes.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
"affective" = effective. Wth is wrong with me? Sorry.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
they're teaching from folding tables on the cement play yard
def a practice to replace before February
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
https://www.curbed.com/2020/9/28/21492749/heres-what-we-know-about-the-guy-who-dumped-two-sacks-of-eels-into-prospect-park-lake
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
"is that all eels?""yeah like i bought them from the store""yeah but that's like a hundred eels""I don't care"
Here is a video from the bystander- “Yo you’re not supposed to be dumping eels here dude” https://t.co/uVAERyNF8S pic.twitter.com/gDMs8c5QXB— chelsea lee greenwood (@ChelseaLee) September 28, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
amazing
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 12:09 (three years ago) link
gross!
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 13:47 (three years ago) link
have those who left New York come back? it appears ... not.Manhattan's residential trash is still way down as of August. almost everywhere else, it's up.https://t.co/chj4N1hKAw pic.twitter.com/qK7MYUERk8— Rachel Holliday Smith (@rachelholliday) September 28, 2020
i want to move to manhattan!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Meanwhile:https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/brooklyn-home-sales-boom-as-manhattan-market-struggles/
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
I live in Nassau County and real estate in our tiny village is crazy right now with people leaving the 5 boroughs.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
My brother & his partner just sold their house in Durham for the asking price in like 4 days, to a family from NYC apparently.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
anyway VOTE EARLY NYChttps://www.voteearlyny.org/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 04:27 (three years ago) link
This piece is weeks old but not linked here I think? And it's so badly argued that it makes me feel like New York City can't actually be dead if this guy thinks it's dead
https://medium.com/@jaltucher/nyc-is-dead-forever-heres-why-1b4646dc5e03
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 1 October 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
I cringed when I saw the name James Altucher but then I couldn't remember how I know of him or why I dislike him
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 1 October 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
yeah, this was the guy that Seinfeld responded to in the NYT, fuck em both imo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 1 October 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
Guy better not show his punk face around my block
― calstars, Thursday, 1 October 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, October 1, 2020 11:18 AM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
reminds me of frau blucher *horses whinny*
― i got a homogenic björk wine farmer permabanned (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
#UPDATE: A source confirms that Steve Barnes (of Cellino & Barnes) and a female relative were on the plane that crashed in Genesee County. There are no survivors. pic.twitter.com/jC9YvF6U3e— Jeannie McBride (@jeanniemcbride_) October 2, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 2 October 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
I wonder if Cellino has an alibi.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Friday, 2 October 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
RIP TO AN ICON
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
damn, I just read the New York mag's behind-the-scenes-of-the-breakup piecehttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/cellino-and-barnes-breakup.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 3 October 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
Every NY Post story about Manhattan from now on should describe events as taking place “within miles of where Rick Moranis was assaulted” https://t.co/kIvA0f4GW4— Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 9, 2020
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 9 October 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
"Have you been to that new falafel place in Queens that's 1.3 miles from where Rick Moranis was assaulted?"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 9 October 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
(i have a friend who had a computer date with Rick Moranis who said he was a heavy MAGA-head. it was not a love match)
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 9 October 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
I want to move to wherever Elizabeth moss is
― calstars, Friday, 9 October 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Greenpoint @NYCferry stop out of commission ‘indefinitely’ bc the developer sold the property. This isn’t how public transit functions.And here’s how commuters are being notified this morning: from a boat operater calling out to people as the ferry goes by. Seriously @NYCEDC? pic.twitter.com/KNU7QQdy83— Elizabeth Adams (@ElizabAdams) October 19, 2020
― glengarry gary beers (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 October 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
The ferry is kind of a disaster any way. EDC/ the mayor plugging in millions of its rent revenue into it, which usually goes to City's general fund. That money would really come in handy during a crisis.And of course the ferries serve almost a predominately high income clientelehttps://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/10/01/icymi-de-blasio-plugged-debt-spouting-ferry-service-with-millions-from-times-square/
― mizzell, Monday, 19 October 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
DeBlasio of course grew up in Cambridge MA, assume that is well-known― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, June 13, 2020 12:13 AM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglinkAs I understand it, this is a free country. A man can live where he wants.― peace, man, Saturday, June 13, 2020 8:39 AM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, June 13, 2020 12:13 AM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― peace, man, Saturday, June 13, 2020 8:39 AM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink
My Spike Lee reference was criminally unappreciated here. Maybe NYC really is dead.
― peace, man, Monday, 19 October 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, October 9, 2020 11:10 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
Moran-Eleven Never Forget
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 19 October 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-10-20/judge-rules-nyc-crosswalks-fail-to-protect-blind-pedestrians
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
🚨A federal court (SDNY, Engelmayer, J.) holds NYC in violation of fed & local law by making its crosswalks inaccessible to the vision-impaired."Unable to reliably locate crosswalks or time their crossing, they risk being hit by cars."Remedy to follow.https://t.co/kyVBFse1Xh pic.twitter.com/wCXyb6Lvr3— Greg Shill (@greg_shill) October 20, 2020
I think we all have to agree that the answer to the titular question is now "yes"
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
yes
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah more than ever
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
Astor Place Hair is closing. This isn't the absolute death knell, but it's gotta be damn close. They were there for over 70 years.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 24 October 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
Oh man. Haven’t been in years but went through a phase where that was my spot.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 24 October 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
Got my first nyc haircut there in '96. It's true, something will feel very out of whack without them down those steps.
― Josefa, Saturday, 24 October 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
fuck, that's the place i got my first haircut in nyc and the place where i got my last pre-covid haircut. i may well never get my hair cut in a salon again.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 25 October 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link
I remember it costing $7 for a fade. Loved that place.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 October 2020 09:28 (three years ago) link
There was another place not far from there, on Prince, an ancient barber shop with a stack of old Playboys on a little side table. I got my hair cut there once and when I asked the geezer who ran the place how much to pay him he kinda shrugs and goes 'whatever you think.' I think I paid him $5, he didn't complain.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 October 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
$5? Hope this was in 1972
― calstars, Sunday, 25 October 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
i was not a rich man at the time, what can i say.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 October 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
My childhood barbershop upstate also had a stack of Playboys (on a bookshelf!). First place I ever saw one.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 26 October 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
and they said the real old new york was dead!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-election-board.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 26 October 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
Gotta love it when “bungling” makes the headline
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
it lives!https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/new-york-city-sinkhole-rats-man-falls
― mizzell, Friday, 30 October 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
I like this accompanying story from May
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/25/us-city-lockdowns-rat-aggression-lack-food-waste
― calstars, Friday, 30 October 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODDYP-b7oY
― peace, man, Friday, 30 October 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
the video on that dude falling through the sidewalk is terrifying https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/10/26/bronx-sidewalk-collapse-video-greg-white/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 30 October 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
pretty devastating storyhttps://www.grubstreet.com/2020/11/rip-chhapte-sherpa-russ-and-daughters.html
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
I feel like the mythology of NY has been built up so much over the past 20 years that even as the city craters economically, young people will still want to come here, mitigating the collapse to some extent
― calstars, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
only if their parents subsidize the rent
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 November 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlmD0yRLUKA
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
yow
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
separately/contemporaneously/from the same source (gothamist)
I love New York... pic.twitter.com/0z5uaf9iTO— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 17, 2020
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
I love ny
― calstars, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
dude jumping the railing on the "i don't know and i don't care but that's my train" tip OTM
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
yeah that's the most nyc ever, just like "alright pizza rat, I'll jump the rail" not even mad just don't care
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
"no i'm not signing your fucking release, i got someplace to be"
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
lol at this quote:
For some Queens parking devotees, the motorist-on-motorist violence is just a preview of the NIMBY backlash expected under a citywide plan to to install a .3 mile busway along the clogged corridor between Northern Boulevard and Sanford Avenue."What happened yesterday is a little appetizer of what’s going to happen, but even worse," Andy Chen, a driver and activist with Asian American Community Empowerment, told Gothamist. "The [Department of Transportation] and Mayor’s Office bears responsibility for what actually happened."
"What happened yesterday is a little appetizer of what’s going to happen, but even worse," Andy Chen, a driver and activist with Asian American Community Empowerment, told Gothamist. "The [Department of Transportation] and Mayor’s Office bears responsibility for what actually happened."
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
ahahahaha - that sounds exactly like something someone would say on my old queens neighborhood board
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, November 17, 2020 10:49 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Started laughing like a drain as soon as he did that--no one cares about pizza rat guy.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
it's esp funny because the pizza rat guy is working SO HARD to be noticed
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
The governor is now standing up behind a table, screaming at reporters. Mayor is 4.5 hours late for his press conference and just confirmed our story in a tweet. Banner day for New York government.— Eliza Shapiro (@elizashapiro) November 18, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
a rare resuscitation https://nypost.com/2020/11/23/wealthy-new-yorkers-save-famous-astor-place-barbershop
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Nice!
― calstars, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/11/30/andrew-yang-said-to-be-considering-mayoral-bid-tested-in-new-online-poll-1338485
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
"couldn't be much worse" is my immediate response
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
100%
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 30 November 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
https://nyti.ms/39yfsia
pretty cool
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 3 December 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Bombers doing whole cars on the M trains this week suggests NYC IS BACK BB
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
pics or it didn't happen
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
Chinatown is the best
― calstars, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/12/2/22149612/two-dozen-subway-cars-struck-in-overnight-graffiti-storm
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 December 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
dope
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
Who says ya can’t nevah go back again? :)
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
still lives
Here I am in the bodega buying a cup of noodles & red bull, overheard a lady yell at her phone "This year dont count that's why I fucked my best friend's man". So bodegas really aren't about the items its about the energy.— Sydnee Washington (@Justsydnyc) December 4, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 December 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
can't argue with cup o noodle red bull lady
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
Middle Collegiate Church has a history that dates back to 1628 — this morning as a result of a fire in a neighboring building that was vacant, the church is no more. pic.twitter.com/NK2qXC0fVO— 𝐌𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐍. 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 (@MylesMill) December 5, 2020
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Saturday, 5 December 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
https://awrycomics.com/im-in-new-york/
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/nyregion/nyc-residential-parking.html
ban cars iirc
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
“That was the day I lost my mind,” she said. After the virtual meeting, she began looking for monthly parking, eventually finding a garage where she pays $275 a month.
^^^ this is the thing, right? like ur circling in your fucking car for 2 hours trying to find a spot at 6PM, waking up and sitting in ur car for 2 hours for street cleaning - suddenly 9 dollars a fucking day to lot your car IS THE EASY SOLUTION IF YOU INSIST ON BEING A DUMBASS AND OWNING A CAR IN NYC.
Also ban cars, also increase fine scales esp for speeding violations, also put weight limits on delivery/service vehicles
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 19:02 (three years ago) link
I pay 175/mo to park in my building's garage, it's a dream.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 19:20 (three years ago) link
"the city does not owe you a place to store your private property" makes sense as long as the subway works.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
would happily pay $175 a month extra in taxes if i were guaranteed a spot on my block.
― adam, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
lol that will solve the problem
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link
i too would also happily pay significantly less than the fair market value of land in new york city to have access to land in new york city.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
On-street parking should be abolished everywhere for anyone without a disabled parking permit
― is right unfortunately (silby), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
having a car sucks, will happily stop doing so when there's a reasonably reliable and convenient way to get my daughter to her grandparents house in brooklyn, then i can rejoin the smugly carless
― adam, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
On-street parking is probably fine as long as car ownership itself is fully socialised.
― shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
There are very large swaths of NYC that either have no public transit, have only buses (whereby it takes multiple transfers and huge amounts of time to get most places), or have a single local subway line that only provides access along one corridor. I guess in theory a lot of things can be done via Uber, but (1) Uber also sucks and (2) that doesn't actually mean less use of cars.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
― adam, Tuesday, January 5, 2021 2:37 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol i had a spot in a garage in manhattan. the monthly fee was, uh, more than that. i'm back in new jersey now though.
― treeship., Tuesday, 5 January 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
a Brooklyn resident who uses his car primarily to take his 13-year-old son — and his large bags of gear — to hockey practice in Long Island City, Queens.
this is the only part i sympathize with, because dragging hockey gear on subway + bus is no fun. although it does mean any canadians in the vicinity will say hi
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
ugh and the gear gets stinky too
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
have only buses (whereby it takes multiple transfers and huge amounts of time to get most places).
― is right unfortunately (silby), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
Ride the bus it’s fun and you don’t have to drive
― is right unfortunately (silby), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
Self-driving cars will help relieve the parking situation. Only need to wait another 10-15 years.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
No they won’t. They will change one set of parking problems for another. You’re waiting for a solution to geometry.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
silby otm again and again
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
but the first question is, is storing private cars the best use of this public space? and/or what's the balance between using some of this space for storing private cars, and some of it for other things? only once those questions are settled would we really start getting into what a 'fair' price would be for the parking spaces. at a minimum it seems like the city should not be undercutting private garages, which are a much more efficient model of storing cars, and also do not encourage car ownership quite as thoroughly, being more inconvenient.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
i swear to god i'm not smug about it but i would say something around +/-40% of my decision to remain in nyc is focused on the fact that i hate cars and i hate car culture and i hate driving and i hate owning a car
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link
no cars in cities
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 5 January 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
^^^ otm, but this is a pipe dream without massive overhauling of public transportation and how jobs are spread out throughout most cities.
And I fear that COVID is really going to set public transportation ridership back in too many cities. NYC probably won't be hit quite as hard, but a city like Chicago that seems to be built just as much for cars as for public transportation is going to see ridership down for quite some time. I mean, I know directly of 4-5 very sizable employers that are still effectively telling employees not to take the bus or train.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 23:00 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/nyregion/nyc-subway-coronavirus-safety.html
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
hunter s thompson's platform for mayor of aspen included disarming the police, ripping out all the streets, replacing with sod, and making everyone put their cars in garages outside the city limits
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
basically i'm saying, it's time for freak power
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
otm, ban cars in cities is a good incremental start
― All cars are bad (Euler), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
I'd happily ride buses (at least in non-pandemic times) if the buses had a place to put unfolded strollers like good old London town but no this city hates babies.
― Alba, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 02:56 (three years ago) link
I mean, there's barely any room even to put folded strollers. The only aggro I've had since moving here was from a sitting woman as I tried to carry a toddler and a folded stroller past her while the bus was moving.
― Alba, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link
otm. I was not on team cars until I had kids. Public transit is extremely hard in NYC with babies. Many subway stations don't have elevators, the ones that do are often out of order, escalators also often out of order, and buses are fucking impossible - you try folding a stroller while holding an infant and holding the hand of a 3 year old.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
Banning cars first is not an "incremental solution" it's "fuck you and hope this gets fixed in the future somehow"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link
Agree. Ban kids first, then ban cars.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 10:34 (three years ago) link
"fuck you and hope this gets fixed in the future somehow"
this could also describe the complete takeover of cities by cars. which goes a long way, of course, towards explaining why provision for pedestrians is so poor...
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 10:41 (three years ago) link
Many subway stations don't have elevators,
Add elevators?
the ones that do are often out of order,
Repair elevators?
escalators also often out of order,
Repair escalators?
and buses are fucking impossible - you try folding a stroller while holding an infant and holding the hand of a 3 year old.
asked and answered tbh
the buses had a place to put unfolded strollers like good old London town
*monkey's paw twitches in Brighton*
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 11:03 (three years ago) link
what have i done
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 12:10 (three years ago) link
xp This is a small example, but where I used to live in Queens (which actually DID have good public transit access if you were going into Manhattan, as opposed to between boroughs which was abysmal, and notwithstanding said problems for children and the elderly) they took some steps in the direction of "ban cars first." Massive bike lanes were added on main thoroughfares and lots of street parking was removed. After a few years, it was still the case that virtually no one was using the bike lanes and everyone was complaining about the parking, especially elderly people (of which there were a lot in my neighborhood). No evidence that it has led to some massive public transit improvement push. Infrastructure is unfortunately massively expensive and massively hard to build/change. That goes both for the antiquated NYC subways system and the unfortunate design of much of the city around roads. Of course, I guess this is all theoretical since it's also politically impossible to ban cars. Maybe that will change in a generation or two.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
But it's still a bit narrowsighted to be like "Well I (healthy childless 30-something) can get by just fine riding my bike to the coffeeshop and carrying a bag of groceries home and ordering a lot of takeout, so the city doesn't need cars and trucks"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
tbh i feel like the vast majority of car-owning citydwellers i know hate the millstone around their neck of needing a car for whatever they need it for, and would be glad to be rid of it if they could.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
*raises hand*
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
I think cars are terrible and yet...I love owning a car in the city. Especially when I was heavily involved in nightlife. So long as you know when you can or can't drive and where you can or can't find parking it can be really convenient. Especially in Queens. And especially since having a kid.
It would be cool though if the entire city only had revel style rentable cars for everyone.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
I don't know Queens at all though. Maybe you can't walk to grocery stores? I live in a European city & before the pandemic we shopped for food daily, it's a 5 minute walk to three small but thorough enough supermarkets. now we do it twice a week. we have three kids.
the solution to the stroller problem is to ban strollers too. they're a blight on getting around for everyone else. just get a sling or an ergo or whatever.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
lol @ sic. let's make him the president of the mta, a notoriously easy job.
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link
We could walk to a couple of overpriced and somewhat crappy but adequate grocery stores. I guess arguably we could have done all of our food shopping there. There are certainly parts of Queens where you can't though, a lot of it is semi-suburban. We had a car primarily because I was working in a place that would have taken two hours each way by public transit, but it was admittedly very nice for Costco runs and regular visits to the in laws and weekend trips out of the city in nice weather. Also I don't think I would have been able to do stuff like take both kids to the hall of science by myself when one was little and the other was a baby -- yes, in theory I could have put the baby in an ergo, carried a huge bag with their lunches and diapers and all of that, force marched my late-walking three year old and waited for the bus with them (sometimes in the rain) and then walked 20 minutes from the stop, but it made a heck of a lot more sense to just drive 5 minutes and park in the lot. And this was in one of the most transit-accessible parts of Queens.
Also, the baby carrier became impossible pretty much as soon as my unusually long first daughter's legs dangled enough to constantly accidentally kick me in the nuts. Not really gonna address the "ban strollers" suggestion, that's silly, especially if you want people to be able to do shopping with their kids and without a car.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
Many subway stations don't have elevators,Add elevators?the ones that do are often out of order,Repair elevators?escalators also often out of order,Repair escalators?
I mean, yes, of course. Rarely works out that easily in reality though. Elevators and escalators all over the CTA are routinely out of order for months at a time. But, of course, this goes back to mass transit being criminally underfunded.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
overpriced and somewhat crappy but adequate
NYC in six words.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link
man alive, thanks for that. the only American "city" we ever lived in as parents was Palo Alto, where we did a fair bit of grocery shopping by foot, but also a fair bit by car (had two kids, a baby & a toddler at that point). I biked to work. But getting to SF was awful, either by car or by Caltrain, and going to like Half Moon Bay or Santa Cruz, not sure how we'd do that without cars.
I have a friend who teaches at P1tz3r & lives in LA without a car, with two toddlers. Because of her I'm willing to listen to people trying to recruit me to socal jobs even though I think it must be complex to live that way.
my "ban strollers" thing is not to be taken seriously even though I seriously believe in it
― All cars are bad (Euler), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
yes "complex" is the word. It's not that these things *can't* be done, it's that there are layers of complexity and difficulty that become increasingly tiring and challenging, or else limiting. We could have spent even more time in our neighborhood and ventured outside of it less, for sure. We would have survived. Or we could have taken our kids to the Natural History museum on transit when they were 2 and 5 (I think we did this once), it's just the added 1-2 hours of travel time total, plus the fatigue from carrying the 2 yo up and down many steps and over city blocks when they get too tired or are moving too slow or sit down on the sidewalk in frustration, the stress of not knowing if the train will get stuck underground right when your kid needs a bathroom, the unlikelihood that you'll have seats, the likelihood of crowdedness, etc. Logistics of shopping, errands, everything just gets more complicated, time-consuming and tiring. I guess you could argue that if everyone was forced to live like that, it could potentially increase the availability of amenities within one's own neighborhood and just make us more neighborhood oriented.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
I'm not saying I need a car because I live in Queens. I'm saying Queens is more car friendly.
There are certainly parts of Queens and Brooklyn and the Bronx where public transportation is bad or non-existent. Not where I live though.
When I moved here I said it was like a mix of living in Brooklyn and New Jersey. I could walk out of my apt, go to the pharmacy and drug store and supermarket, hop on the train to work etc.
OR I could get in the car, drive to Home Depot and Ikea etc.
Parking was much easier in my hood when I moved here than Brooklyn, but over the years even that's gotten harder.
As an occasional DJ, I'd find myself coming home at 4am driving around looking for a parking spot. Certain neighborhoods perhaps where there's more car commuters, it's easy to park before 10pm or so but at night it's hard.
We got a spot in our building's garage after 10 years only before our kid was born. I didn't relish the idea of pulling up at the fire hydrant, unloading kid and groceries etc then going to find a spot etc.
But it's also great to just come home from a party or whatever at whatever time (pre pandemic of course) and not worry, just pull into my garage. Certainly worth 175/mo. Was 150 when we started.
Now if we lived in Boerum Hill and garage parking was 500/mo, that would be a different story.
As far as how great having a car is, it's just so fun to explore the city (and to get out for day trips) and I suppose if you're the type who lives in Park Slope and using your car to go to the hamptons 1 weekend out of the month, well that sucks, but if you find yourself driving to College Point for dinner on a weeknight, I mean, you try taking public transportation to Little Pepper!, or driving to the rockaways and stopping at L&B or whatever on the way back. Or going to Wave Hill or Untermeyer gardens. It's great that you don't need a car in NYC, but it sure makes a lot of things easier.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
yeah that is also true
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
It still sounds like you are underrating the fun level of spending hours on the bus
― is right unfortunately (silby), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
it's fun! the bus is great! you can let your mind wander or look at people or just cease to exist
maybe I just don't know what children are like which is fair, I haven't seen a child in a year
― is right unfortunately (silby), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
actually no I saw a colleague's child over zoom last year
― is right unfortunately (silby), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
There are two busses I've taken. The B24 from my old printshop to my house, it was the but that went from east williamsburg to queens and back down to greenpoint. It was the G train of busses and I got nauseous every time.
I sometimes take the Q32 to and from jackson heights.
Actually I used to take the bus 2 stops when taking my daughter to her pre-k in sunnyside, then I'd get some empanadas and jump on the 7 train to work. She loved taking the "city bus" to school with daddy. It was actually a really special thing we did together. Her mom would never take her on the bus because she gets way too car sick.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
I just took a bus - to drop off my car! - and will be taking one to pick it up this afternoon hopefully.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
How’d you get the car on the bus?
― is right unfortunately (silby), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
lol silby
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, January 6, 2021 10:41 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is exactly right.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
pre-COVID I took the bus all the time; compared to the subway it is a delightful experience. like taking a cab but it's $2.50
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:52 (three years ago) link
now let's talk about tipping
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
(also, I can only really speak for the lines near me but much more accessible than the subway, granted that is a low bar)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
I've taken the bus in Bk a lot and I usually find it full/crowded and not especially pleasant, plus very slow. But all of those conditions are choices of the system and can be changed. And yeah, in general the bus is WAY more accessible than the subway!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
granted this is in Manhattan but there have only been a handful of times the bus was even close to being as crowded as the subway, and every time it was because the 1 was fucked up
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:48 (twenty minutes ago) link
Take this with a huge grain of salt as I’m no urban planner, just a guy who read part of the Power Broker and stuff, but the difference to me is that NYC was sort of on the precipice of all this dramatic growth and change and could either have chosen to dramatically improve public transit or build infrastructure for cars and chose the latter. Now we already have all that infrastructure for cars and huge parts of the city are built and designed around it. Therefore it seems a better approach to me to say “going forward and planning for the NEXT wave of growth and change, we focus on public transit.” And over time people may migrate away from cars if you can make public transit sufficiently accessible and cheap and usable. But banning cars first and hoping this will somehow cause the improvement of public transit (which would take many years even if it worked) doesn’t make much sense to me. Make a bunch of peoples lives miserable so they’ll advocate? No, they’ll just whine that they want their cars back.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
what we should do first is ban caring about cars. too many tracksuit dudes fast and furiousing up and down fresh pond road.
― adam, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
they could improve public transit before they ban all the cars. Where's my X line? https://citylimits.org/2019/06/19/call-to-study-new-transit-line-linking-bronx-queens-and-brooklyn/
In the last 20 years there's been a huge transformation of the outer-boroughs and public transit has mostly gotten worse.
Remember those maps showing all the trolley car routes between queens and downtown brooklyn?
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:33 (three years ago) link
Yeah one of them used to go down my cross-street. :(((
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/1930s-trolley-map-shows-how-connected-brooklyn-was
"In the mid 1920s General Motors, Standard Oil, and Firestone Tires—noticing that the privately held, long term electric streetcar franchises all around the U.S. were up for renewal—wanted to expand their business opportunities by forming a 'shill' Holding Company called National City Lines. Using every form of legal and illegal tactics, such as murder, blackmail, and the bribing of elected officials, NCL gained control over forty Streetcar companies around the U.S."Their very first victim, was Manhattan's NY Railways, the operator of that borough's profitable electric streetcar system. In a pattern to be repeated all around the U.S., NCL gained control of the streetcar franchise by bribing elected officials, and immediately ripped out the tracks, wires, and streetcars, replacing them with GM busses (formerly their Yellow Coach Div., now called Nova Bus, located in Canada in the very same GM bus factory), burning Standard Oil gasoline (later diesel), and rolling on Firestone tires."Murder? Diamond points us to this book, "which documents a Midwest reporter who was machine gunned to death in front his home, in the presence of his wife and 5 year old daughter, because he threatened to expose the NCL conspiracy."
"Their very first victim, was Manhattan's NY Railways, the operator of that borough's profitable electric streetcar system. In a pattern to be repeated all around the U.S., NCL gained control of the streetcar franchise by bribing elected officials, and immediately ripped out the tracks, wires, and streetcars, replacing them with GM busses (formerly their Yellow Coach Div., now called Nova Bus, located in Canada in the very same GM bus factory), burning Standard Oil gasoline (later diesel), and rolling on Firestone tires."
Murder? Diamond points us to this book, "which documents a Midwest reporter who was machine gunned to death in front his home, in the presence of his wife and 5 year old daughter, because he threatened to expose the NCL conspiracy."
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
That's kind of a weird route -- it has so few interconnections with other lines that get you places you'd want to go in Brooklyn. For example, from Forest Hills, I would have had to take the EFMR to Jackson Heights, transfer to the "interboro" and then if I wanted to go to, say, Barclays Center (a big destination and hub, just using for illustration) transfer to the 3 all the way down at Livonia and then ride it 7 stops. This would actually be significantly slower than taking the subway to Manhattan to get to Barclays. Maybe it's a bad example because Barclays is pretty close in to Manhattan (and also served by the G, which already does go from western queens to western brooklyn). All for creating more interborough lines though. Also I imagine a lot of the stops were chosen to serve underserved transit areas, which is why there probably aren't as many connections.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
man alive i can't believe you're disagreeing that the only way to improve the quality of transportation in new york city is by 1) banning all cars in new york instantly and then 2) slowly, if ever, getting around to improving public transit i mean sheesh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
my proposition: during an 18 month period when millions of people cannot take the subway for public health reasons, and are being paid to stay home, use that time to carry out a massive repair / upgrade program performed by masked workers.
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
say what you will about sic he made the trains run on time
― is right unfortunately (silby), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
that would never work because it's very expensive to borrow money for big infrastructure projects right now *pauses.. puts finger to earpiece, listens...* well, i mean, there's a real shortage of people to do the work *listens to earpiece again* well, i mean, there's no real business case for improved public transport in the 5 boroughs *continues*
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
interesting blog post here on the challenges of governance facing transport development The Regional Rail proposal’s political obstacles are not exactly a matter of cost. It’s not that this should cost $4 billion (without the North-South Rail Link) but it was estimated at $15 billion and therefore there’s no will to do it. No: the Baker administration seems completely uninterested in governing, and has published two fraudulent studies making up high costs for both the North-South Rail Link and rail electrification, as well as a more recent piece of fraud making up high costs for Boston-Springfield intercity rail. The no comes first, and the high costs come second.This history – no first, then high costs – is also the case for New York’s subway accessibility program. The MTA does not want it; the political system does not care either. Therefore, when disability rights advocates do force some investment, the MTA makes up high costs, often through bundling unnecessary investments that it does want, like rebuilding station interiors, and charging these projects to the accessibility account. A judge can force an agency to build something, but not to build it competently and without siphoning money.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
lol @ sic. let's make him the president of the mta, a notoriously easy job
better to make him governor instead
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 22:29 (three years ago) link
xp yeah, the unnecessary station makeovers have always been extremely frustratingNYT published a major piece on this a few years ago, it was plain to see anyhow. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-system-failure-delays.html
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
Ehh, one of my favorite things, maybe my single favorite thing about living in NYC has been the access to amazing day trips to LI, NJ, Hudson Valley, city limits on public transit. I don't doubt it can be more convenient and way less stressful in the comfort of your own car but most places are accessible on public transit. College point is one of the tougher ones, sure, but Rockaways/L&B/Wave Hill = not especially?
Also, lots of NYC is unfortunately built for cars at this point. Here's Marshall Berman on "that bastard" Robert Moseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9b5UrF8O-s
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link
I have a feeling that if we ever got a car, which we currently don't feel we need despite the kid, we'd never feel able to do without one again, a bit like when we all got mobile phones.
In the meantime my wife's just got her Zipcard, which we think will be fun but haven't come up with a plan of where to go with it yet.
I love day trips on the Hudson Line but Covid is putting us off using it at the moment.
― Alba, Thursday, 7 January 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the shoutout to Wave Hill, my personal Strawberry Fields Forever since age 7 or so, and where I proposed to my wife.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 7 January 2021 03:41 (three years ago) link
Same! In the gazebo. After getting lunch at Cachapas y Mas.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 January 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
Nice! I proposed down on the lower lawn with the view of the GW.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 7 January 2021 03:47 (three years ago) link
Considered getting married there but they building was closed for renovations. Also massively expensive and relevant to this thread, wanted something closer to public transportation. Ended up at the Metropolitan Building in LIC.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 January 2021 04:55 (three years ago) link
I've been there when they were setting up for a wedding and it would be beautiful. I think we found out how much it was and the fee was more expensive than our entire wedding (almost 20 years ago now).
I'm suddenly missing that place now.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 7 January 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
Wave Hill is a lovely place, been a few times and want to go again sometime. When my daughter was 3 she developed an elaborate friendship with some windchimes there.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 7 January 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
Have to scroll up, was Wave Hill mentioned as a place to drive to?
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 January 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
yeah Dan Selzer mentioned it. Never noticed before, but it's actually super close to a metro north station - I could get there by public transit way more easily from where I live now than I could from queens
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 7 January 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
Sorry, didn't consider how easy it might be to not drive there! I'd still rather drive!
have you been to Untermeyer up in Yonkers? Kind of a similar situation, fancy gardens overlooking the hudson.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 January 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
haven't been to Wave Hill but have done some very pleasant wandering in the surrounding early 20th century millionaires' districts, Riverdale and Fieldston. great house-gawking. Van Cortlandt park also has terrific landscapes, big ol' rocks to clamber up... only been once, on a beautiful fall day, would strongly endorse. i went up on the subway to the end of the 1, and came back down on the Metro North from the Riverdale stop, pretty easy - but i'm a youngish person with an interest in hoofing it around hilly neighborhoods for its own sake. in the same general direction, the "Villa Charlotte Bronte" in Sputyen Duyvil is also well worth a peep in morning light, but really only coming by the MTN - the subway/bus connection is a pain.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 January 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
this fuckin guy
>@NYCMayor calling for an "immediate investigation" of the Capitol Police's response to the Trump mob, criticizes leadership.The investigation into his own police department for their treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters took 6 months and no leadership changes were made.— Christopher Robbins (@ChristRobbins) January 7, 2021
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 January 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
I want to go to Untermeyer! Have not been.
We've toured some of the other mansions along the Hudson--highly recommend the Vanderbilt one, the guide was lovely and funny and you can walk all over the grounds. DO NOT RECOMMEND the Rockefeller/Kykuit tour. It's awful. The house is ugly as shit and looks completely un-liveable, the guides deliver constant scripted hagiography about several generations of Rockefellers, the tour only gets you into the FIRST floor, because the upstairs is part of a DIFFERENT tour and costs an additional $25 per person, and you literally can't walk across the driveway to look over the railing because that view is ALSO part of a different tour and costs $25 per person.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 7 January 2021 16:03 (three years ago) link
the thing about urban driving is, yes, totally --- so many things are so much easier with a car. this is the whole thing with cars in general though... they're a tragedy of the commons thing where (if you can afford one) it totally makes your life easier, but collectively, this leads to everybody losing out. even without getting into climate change it just massively reduces mobility for everyone without a car - for example, streets that could be brisk speedway sof frequent and reliable buses are instead choked with private cars. departments of transportation get oriented totally around keeping cars moving quickly, which is why bike- and bus-lane initiatives, even when they succeed, are often essentially sabotaged through design choices that nobody would make if their first priority was getting everybody around the city quickly.
meanwhile it becomes an uphill battle to reclaim even a little of the massive acreage devoted to private driving or parking spaces in the name of different, perhaps competing "quality of life" visions - to say this public space should be used for bike lanes, for bus lanes, for outdoor cafes, for wider sidewalks, for strips of grass and trees, for garbage containers, for safe zones around schools... all these other possibilities for how we could shape the city we live in. these are treated as weird outsider proposals versus the presumption that all this space is by default for cars. but except for certain areas in distant parts of queens and the bronx, and most of staten island, most of this roadway was not even built for cars in the first place! and somehow, the city functioned before all these people got cars. it needs to be that way again - or at least more that way.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 January 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
BOOM
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 7 January 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
Yeah otm
― is right unfortunately (silby), Thursday, 7 January 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
Being a car refusenik is praxis
Using words wrong over here
― dan selzer, Thursday, January 7, 2021 10:51 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, we were actually supposed to go to a light show there the other night and it got rained out. They're only like a 30 minute walk from me, I live near the Yonkers border. May check them out next time I venture down the Aqueduct trail.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
We went. It was pretty but not like, insanely special!
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
cars are useful and fun, they just shouldn't be privately owned
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, January 7, 2021 12:45 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
ha, i went to this on new year's eve. was a nice way to get out of the house for 30 mins or so.
i've been renting a car during the pandemic so my wife and i have access to get to places outside a 2 mile radius of our apartment. we've been hiking in parks upriver and in jersey, been able to visit my parents in the suburbs, and even occasionally further (we went to acadia for our honeymoon). parking has been annoying, but worth the price of freedom.
i am certainly not convinced that i would need a car in a non pandemic situation. it's a different kind of freedom to not have to worry about a car.
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
Where pedestrians get to walk in a city with cars
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2466040/3206.0.jpgCredit: Karl Jilg/Swedish Road Administration
― Alba, Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link
you don't have to ban cars to make cities way, way more liveable than american cities btw.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
FWIW, in spite of the many ways in which Robert Moses sucked, he had a vision of cars and roads enabling "ordinary people" (albeit probably not poor black and brown ones) to get out of the city and enjoy fresh air and nature. He was semi-populist, but in a very wrongheaded way.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
*probably*
Maybe you should finish the book, dude.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
Seriously, there was nothing redeemable about Moses and his idea of enjoying air and nature was to drive through or park in it.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
The guy never had a drivers' license! Cars are super convenient when you are chauffeured everywhere.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:57 (three years ago) link
Nearly every mile of waterfront in entire Metro area is unusable because this idiot put a road on it.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, January 7, 2021 1:45 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Terrible post
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 7 January 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
You can't drive buses on parkways because Moses intentionally built overpasses low to prevent "ordinary people" from enjoying fresh air and nature.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
Don't make me post the Sick Of It All song again.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:02 (three years ago) link
"albeit probably not poor black and brown ones" "wrongheaded"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:02 (three years ago) link
He drove the fucking cross-bronx through the middle of a working class neighborhood of "ordinary people" and refused to move it 1/2 mile to either side to go around said neighborhood even though such alteration would have SAVED money and that neighborhood.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
He was a populist in the same way that Trump is a populist i.e. actually an absolutist dictator.
― Jimi Buffett (PBKR), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:07 (three years ago) link
These are exactly the ways that he sucked, not "despite some ways that he sucked he also did these things." They are the things.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
we've been hiking in parks upriver and in jersey, been able to visit my parents in the suburbs, and even occasionally further (we went to acadia for our honeymoon). parking has been annoying, but worth the price of freedom.
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili),
recommendations please
― calstars, Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
I am actually thinking about a car in the next year-ish timeframe bc my bf lives 2 hrs away and right now I'm depending on his chauffering me around and it would be nice not to be. I rented 2x over the summer for various trips and it was a heady freedom. Still, what Doc Casino said about the common welfare is otm.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link
Also because I'm newly contemplating maybe not being in NYC forever but that's another whole thing and at least several years down the road.
if you're getting a car to use less than once a week and you live in nyc then there are probably cheaper rent/share options just in terms of the $$$ (planet death and opposite side parking notwithstanding).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
In the dc area we get suburbanites arguing that “not owning a car is privilege” to argue against any rebalancing of the car vs. other use allocation of space.
― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
100% aware of all that and my post was grossly understated. But just making the point that prior to all that it was pretty hard for the non wealthy of any race to get out of the city. Maybe a better way to put it would be that there was an optimistic view of cars at the tome as personal freedom machines.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
i mean ... that's true? car culture is a poll tax that only people who can afford to live in the most expensive parts of the most expensive cities in america can choose to avoid paying.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
(xp)
xxxxp I'm sure you're right, caek! But the rental places are all like 10 miles away so even after I get the rental car back here I still need a ride home. :)
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
No question doc casinos post is otm. Sometimes we need large scale policy solutions to become our better selves though. It’s always hard to swim upstream.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
don't they have share cars on the street? xp
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
How about the Ramapo-Dunderberg trail in Harriman State Park, it's a 10 min walk from the Tuxedo rail station. It's insanely beautiful there, def one of my favorite hikes in the area. There's also an affordable AMC campsite in Harriman with glamping options that will pick you up at Tuxedo station in their shuttle bus. Open to non-members of course.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
if i was still in new york i would be into one of these https://electrek.co/2020/05/04/niu-nqi-gts-sport-electric-scooter-launch-usa-america/
it's cheaper than most cargo ebikes!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
(ah lol charging. nevertheless!)
I use my scooter lots but of course they're terrible for emissions! And there's a big bridge up here that I can't always safely ride on, with traffic and wind concerns. (I'm in the country mostly these days.)
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:28 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
hudson highlands has bull hill and breakneck ridge, though they can be crowded on nice days. harriman state park is pretty, there's a lake plus a 10-mile trail (ramapo-dunderberg, as deflatormouse mentioned), and another 5-mile trail (plus more, those two are the ones we did, though). there's also bear mountain park, which has some beautiful trails, some more strenuous than others.
all of those are about 90 mins from brooklyn.
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
man alive why did you even live in the city in the first place
― is right unfortunately (silby), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
in orbit where are you these days?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
Xxp metro-north is obv super convenient to breakneck/bull hill as well
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
I never really feel like going more than 2 miles from my house in gosh darn Seattle so I can’t fathom where it is you New Yorkers are driving to exactly.
― is right unfortunately (silby), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
Back and forth between my place in Bk and here: www.facebook.com/VillageOfWalden/
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
oh cool
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 January 2021 21:28 (three years ago) link
― is right unfortunately (silby), Thursday, 7 January 2021 19:53 (one hour ago) link
I mean, it was fun when I was younger, but I wanted to get out for at least the last five years.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 7 January 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
The crowds at Breakneck Ridge get kind of crazy because it's so close to the train stop and such a nice hike. Probably less so nowadays. Still, go early in the AM or go on a less than nice day.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 7 January 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
― Boring United Methodist Church (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 January 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
i have been running in the middle of the streets lately toward traffic and it definitely ups the adrenaline. hope i don't die! most people give me lots of leeway but every so often there's one crazy who wants to make a point who all but swerves to clip me. haw haw look at that guy running on an empty street so that he doesn't freak people with their kid out by not wearing a mask because he's trying to exercise and still socially distance, think i'll maybe kill him
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2021 02:43 (three years ago) link
Great job
Vaccination lines across NYC are moving slowly. The reason: lots of restrictions about who is eligible and a disorganized delivery system. As a result it's often difficult, to schedule enough people at once to justify opening a vial of vaccine. https://t.co/Z0EcmPP1AZ— Joe Goldstein (@JoeKGoldstein) January 8, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 8 January 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
related: Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 8 January 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/nyregion/andrew-yang-manhattan-apartment-new-york.html‘“Can you imagine trying to have two kids on virtual school in a two-bedroom apartment, and then trying to do work yourself?” Mr. Yang said in the initial interview.’This fucking guy
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 12:25 (three years ago) link
Whoops
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 13:54 (three years ago) link
see also De Blasio: I Have Too Much 'Going On' to Ride the Subway to Work
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
Man, that was boneheaded. Honestly if he had just left out the “can you imagine” part it would have been nowhere near as bad. “We have an autistic son and it was becoming very hard to meet his needs in our space while also working full time.”
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
Good point.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
nobody's doing their best communicating right now and everyone's angry is how i break it down to an extent. this will likely be forgotten in a few days but yang is fighting an uphill battle under the best of circumstances and he ran headlong into an inauspicious beginning.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
de blasio lives in an 8 bedroom villa in park slope iirc
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/nyregion/hudson-yards-suicide-vessel.html
The Vessel, the spiraling staircase at Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s Far West Side, was closed to visitors on Tuesday, a day after a 21-year-old man jumped to his death in the third suicide in less than a year.It was unclear when the 150-foot structure, the vast development’s centerpiece, would reopen to the public. A spokesman for Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards, said that the structure was “temporarily closed” and that the firm was consulting with suicide-prevention experts, including psychiatrists, about how to limit the potential for more suicides.The structure was considered a major tourist draw for Hudson Yards, a $25 billion project that is the largest mixed-use private development in U.S. history. After opening to great fanfare in 2019, the development now faces an uncertain future as a result of the pandemic’s effect on everything from tourism to office work. It has been largely empty for months.Visitors and critics had raised concerns that the Vessel’s design could pose safety risks. Audrey Wachs, the former associate editor of The Architect’s Newspaper, wrote in a 2016 critique: “As one climbs up Vessel, the railings stay just above waist height all the way up to the structure’s top, but when you build high, folks will jump.”The community board first contacted Related Companies about taking steps to prevent additional suicides at the structure last year after the first one.“Because the Vessel’s chest-high barrier is all that separates the platform from the edge, the likelihood of a similar, terribly sad loss of life cannot be ignored,” Mr. Kern, the board chairman, wrote in a letter.Mr. Kern said on Tuesday that the board continues to believe that the best way to stave off further suicide attempts is to increase the height of the barrier.“That’s the only thing that’s going to work,” he said.He added that he understood there was hesitation to alter what is considered a work of art, but that should not be a priority now: “After three suicides, at what point does the artistic vision take a back seat to safety?”
It was unclear when the 150-foot structure, the vast development’s centerpiece, would reopen to the public. A spokesman for Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards, said that the structure was “temporarily closed” and that the firm was consulting with suicide-prevention experts, including psychiatrists, about how to limit the potential for more suicides.
The structure was considered a major tourist draw for Hudson Yards, a $25 billion project that is the largest mixed-use private development in U.S. history. After opening to great fanfare in 2019, the development now faces an uncertain future as a result of the pandemic’s effect on everything from tourism to office work. It has been largely empty for months.
Visitors and critics had raised concerns that the Vessel’s design could pose safety risks. Audrey Wachs, the former associate editor of The Architect’s Newspaper, wrote in a 2016 critique: “As one climbs up Vessel, the railings stay just above waist height all the way up to the structure’s top, but when you build high, folks will jump.”
The community board first contacted Related Companies about taking steps to prevent additional suicides at the structure last year after the first one.
“Because the Vessel’s chest-high barrier is all that separates the platform from the edge, the likelihood of a similar, terribly sad loss of life cannot be ignored,” Mr. Kern, the board chairman, wrote in a letter.
Mr. Kern said on Tuesday that the board continues to believe that the best way to stave off further suicide attempts is to increase the height of the barrier.
“That’s the only thing that’s going to work,” he said.
He added that he understood there was hesitation to alter what is considered a work of art, but that should not be a priority now: “After three suicides, at what point does the artistic vision take a back seat to safety?”
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 05:10 (three years ago) link
wait why are they consulting psychiatrists about a building other people are jumping off
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 05:15 (three years ago) link
they wanna know how they really feel about it.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 05:17 (three years ago) link
Sarah Jessica Parker Says NYC is 4th Character for 'Sex and The City' https://t.co/zkyybdOcGA— TMZ (@TMZ) January 13, 2021
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
the only more annoying co-star than catrall
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
This reminds me of Lars ulrich’s line “I am my own best friend”
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 20:59 (three years ago) link
who the hell was asking for a SITC reboot in 2021?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
hbo apparently
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
that's like when magazines say the person of the year is YOU or whatever
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
The adoration of SJP has always been completely baffling to me
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
Doesn’t she have a shoe store at the South Street Seaport?
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
You can kind of see it in that Twitter photo.
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
Oh sorry, thanks, didn’t click to see/zing
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/photos/photos-mta-bus-left-dangling-overpass-bronx
― calstars, Saturday, 16 January 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
hayri atak proposes the striking, sinuous 'sarcostyle tower' for the new york skyline https://t.co/7Ouo0W3yAN pic.twitter.com/gdmW61R4kk— designboom (@designboom) January 20, 2021
― calstars, Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
i just finished nk jemisin's 'the city we became,' in which new york city fights against a lovecraftian menace that attempts to take over the city's buildings and people.
thinking about that for no particular reason.
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
i love it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:40 (three years ago) link
the expanse called, they want their shitty Manhattan skyline back
― calstars, Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
also
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/nyregion/casino-manhattan-nyc.html
― calstars, Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
I loved that book too! I think it taught a lot of ppl about Staten Island lol/sob.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
the angles...they're wrong!
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
love how much that article struggles to reconcile the fact that the Aqueduct casino already exists with the Times worldview in which a location in Queens, on the A train and closer to Manhattan than JFK, is "downstate"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 21 January 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
Rough Trade is closing and "moving"https://blog.roughtrade.com/new-york-we-are-moving/
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
^ kind of a perfect sized venue for a show. I saw a sunny day in Glasgow there
― calstars, Thursday, 21 January 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/excerpts-from-the-sex-and-the-city-revival-in-which-samantha-is-replaced-with-fran-lebowitz
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 21 January 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
https://bushwickdaily.com/bushwick/categories/food-and-drink/6678-our-wicked-lady-vs-cuomo
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
Oh xpost re: casinos, I think the deal with the Aquaduct casino is it's kind of not a 'real' casino? I.e. only games that can somehow be made to fit with in lottery/games of chance laws can be played there? So it sounds like part of what they were saying is that the license for Aquaduct could also potentially be upgraded to some kind of full license.
― chinavision!, Friday, 22 January 2021 15:40 (three years ago) link
Hmm, interesting! If only we had some kind of professional casino intellectual who posted here...
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 January 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 January 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
do you actually gamble doc? i dunno the genesis of yer sobriquet
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 January 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
Me neither.
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 January 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
But I like the way you worded that, forks.
Never play poker against a doctor who's named after a casino
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 January 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
Apologies to the casino doctor!
― chinavision!, Friday, 22 January 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
lol i know nothing about casinos or gambling, i'm just goofin! the name is from a "rehearsal" for a one-off, one-show "band" that spent more time brainstorming names than preparing music. i got into this thing of Doctor _________ names, really liked "Doctor Casino," and when when i used up all my capital keeping us from being called something else, i ended up saving it for my own stop-start musical projects etc. this was all in like 2003 or 2004... now i wish i'd used different aliases for different things but whattayagonnado.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 January 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
(the leading name suggestion was, inexplicably, "The Winkies")
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 January 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
dodged a bullet there imo
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 January 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx8-J66yawM
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 January 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
BK venue shutdown alert:
Hey, friends.We've decided to close our doors for the time being. The outdoor vibe has been extremely nice with the fire pits, heaters and yurts, but the costs of providing these things, which increase as the temps go down, are causing us to lose money – not what we wanna do right now, obviously!We've really been enjoying connecting with you in person, but our biggest priority is fully re-opening on the other side of the pandemic. Temporarily closing until it gets a bit warmer will make it easier to survive the long road.If you have an upcoming booking this weekend or beyond, your reservation fee will be refunded in the coming days, and you'll get a separate email from us with all the details shortly. If you have any questions, just email he✧✧✧@nowad✧✧✧.n✧✧.While the long term future isn't crystal clear yet, we're confident we'll be back with you for our limited, heated outdoor operation when things warm up a bit – likely in mid- to late-March. Keep an eye on your inbox and our Instagram account for updates.For now, you can still join us for our Virtually Nowadays session on The Lot Radio from 1pm to 2pm today (Mad Mirian will be at the helm), and you can stream hours and hours of wonderful sounds and edifying talks on our Patreon. We suggest pairing your at-home audio/visual experience with a nice homemade meal. Our friends at The Mixtape Shop have a new grocery section full of specialty items to make a good dinner (not to mention their ample stock of excellent records).If you don't feel like cooking, order in from one of these Black owned businesses. Spread the coin around if you've got it.That's all from us for now. Stay warm, stay safe, and get that vaccine when it's your turn. We're looking forward to seeing you as soon as we can.Big Love,Nowadays
We've decided to close our doors for the time being. The outdoor vibe has been extremely nice with the fire pits, heaters and yurts, but the costs of providing these things, which increase as the temps go down, are causing us to lose money – not what we wanna do right now, obviously!
We've really been enjoying connecting with you in person, but our biggest priority is fully re-opening on the other side of the pandemic. Temporarily closing until it gets a bit warmer will make it easier to survive the long road.
If you have an upcoming booking this weekend or beyond, your reservation fee will be refunded in the coming days, and you'll get a separate email from us with all the details shortly. If you have any questions, just email he✧✧✧@nowad✧✧✧.n✧✧.
While the long term future isn't crystal clear yet, we're confident we'll be back with you for our limited, heated outdoor operation when things warm up a bit – likely in mid- to late-March. Keep an eye on your inbox and our Instagram account for updates.
For now, you can still join us for our Virtually Nowadays session on The Lot Radio from 1pm to 2pm today (Mad Mirian will be at the helm), and you can stream hours and hours of wonderful sounds and edifying talks on our Patreon. We suggest pairing your at-home audio/visual experience with a nice homemade meal. Our friends at The Mixtape Shop have a new grocery section full of specialty items to make a good dinner (not to mention their ample stock of excellent records).
If you don't feel like cooking, order in from one of these Black owned businesses. Spread the coin around if you've got it.
That's all from us for now. Stay warm, stay safe, and get that vaccine when it's your turn. We're looking forward to seeing you as soon as we can.
Big Love,
Nowadays
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 January 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
Honestly didn't even realize they'd stayed open though it makes sense that they did, being an outdoor, beer-garden-style establishment in the first place.
(Technically Queens, but by like, one block.)
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 29 January 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
it's next to a graveyard, it's 100% queens
― adam, Friday, 29 January 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
Friends of mine. Sad news.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 29 January 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
It’s not technically queens it’s queens.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 January 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
i wouldn't argue about it
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 January 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
You know this is the NY thread right
― calstars, Friday, 29 January 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
sorry: i WILL argue about it
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
pretty chilly today huh
― ian, Friday, 29 January 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
NO
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
I more think of that part of bushwood as "techincally brooklyn" tbh
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 January 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
today is one of those days where even the "feels like" on the weather sites seems totally inflated and false - it is COLD out there y'all
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 29 January 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
It's east, east brooklyn.
― dan selzer, Friday, 29 January 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
east east bushwick
alive and well!
https://evgrieve.com/2021/02/about-that-rolled-up-carpet-in-crosswalk.html
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 19 February 2021 18:56 (three years ago) link
i tripper over one of these dudes at a warehouse show in brooklyn like 10 years ago... wonder if its the same guy
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
this fuckin guy!
obviously Cuomo could be talking about what he’s doing to help the city on each of these challenges but he’s not pic.twitter.com/ltKgUU2UAm— Ben Max (@TweetBenMax) February 19, 2021
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
almost like his goal is to weaken NYC government
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:21 (three years ago) link
lol, i mailed the carpet guy link to a friend who texted back "i have sat on him at a burning man-adjacent party on a boat in bushwick. LOLLLLL"
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 February 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
That carpet guy is one of the more unsettling things I've read lately. Not really the fetish angle, although I do live the "consent" detour in the comments, but moreso the concerns about how often that carpet is washed.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 19 February 2021 22:13 (three years ago) link
Cuomo just announced that the city is reopening movie theaters at 25% capacity in early March and i should be vaccinated around then so i figured I'd take a look at the IFC to see what I might go back and see and they're scheduling a run of... Shoah. Just what I was hoping for with my first return to cinema: nine hours of the holocaust.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 February 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link
https://t.co/YfYQA9xe3K pic.twitter.com/rSaQjv7qTe— the goat of all time (@bobby) February 22, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 22 February 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
.@googlemaps published its first pandemic-era Street View of #NYC. It's a great way to compare our new, much improved use of curb space.16 restaurant seats vs 1 parked car in Clinton Hill20 restaurant seats vs 2 parked cars in Williamsburg pic.twitter.com/3FAH8nREUQ— Jason Rabinowitz (@AirlineFlyer) March 18, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 March 2021 05:16 (three years ago) link
Who @s Google, fuckin clout chasing nerds
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 19 March 2021 05:26 (three years ago) link
also you don't need the "." at the start any more
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 March 2021 05:33 (three years ago) link
Mercury Lounge building is listed for sale: https://t.co/15PF5QK5q0 pic.twitter.com/5FD8UGNdwI— BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) March 19, 2021
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 March 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
oh wow! first place I ever saw a live show in NYC
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 19 March 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
i was there right before lockdown to see kassa overall
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:28 (three years ago) link
Just got a chilling email from Spike W about how Smalls just dodged a serious bullet.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 March 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I retweeted that. Shit was fucked up. I mean, of all venues to go after, Smalls?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 20 March 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
Now they got this fsck jerry Seinfeld making safety announcements on the platform. Shut up you rich asshole
― calstars, Saturday, 20 March 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
not dead yet
I thought i had seen every possible obstacle in the #bikenyc lane but this city never ceases to surprise me pic.twitter.com/MIyWKOOAeg— Jared Paul (@jaredjaredpaul) March 23, 2021
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
why is there always some dick sitting in the middle of the bicycle lane
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
Sitting here in queensEating refried beans
― calstars, Saturday, 27 March 2021 02:21 (three years ago) link
That’s been like my theme song forever
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 March 2021 02:37 (three years ago) link
I have multiple affinities
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 March 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link
Huge expansions of vaccine eligibility in NYS coming up: 30 and over can make appointments starting tomorrow 3/30, and 16+ starting 4/6.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 29 March 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
NYC peeps over 30 lookin to get jabbed: here are some good bots to follow for appointments! got mine in Feb with their help. @nycshotslots @turbovax @nyvaccine if there are others please reply in this thread!— rachel handler (@rachel_handler) March 29, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 29 March 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
hot vax summer y'all
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 March 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
Ha ha well I guess it’s good I just made an appointment today?
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Monday, 29 March 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
i look forward to spending a week or two hitting refresh
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 29 March 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
Remote Work Is Here to Stay. Manhattan May Never Be the Same.New York City, long buoyed by the flow of commuters into its towering office buildings, faces a cataclysmic challenge, even when the pandemic ends.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/nyregion/remote-work-coronavirus-pandemic.html
― o. nate, Monday, 29 March 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
THE NON-COMMUTERSKILLED NYC
― Alba, Monday, 29 March 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
😱
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:27 (three years ago) link
Thank christ. Commuting is absolutely thankless. It's an hour each way including a long walk, working up a sweat, then standing up, sweaty, packed in with cranky people who haven't had caffeine yet. Let's never go back. One or two days a week max in the office (if any) and no meetings before 11am.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
That article made me wonder why I've been limiting myself to applying for jobs in this part of the country. (I do still apply for jobs from time to time.) I feel like I should just pick a part of the country that I might conceivably want to live in, get a remote job there, and move at some indeterminate future date.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 01:28 (three years ago) link
I agree. Goodbye and good riddance to the daily commute. I wonder how it will reshape Manhattan though, especially Midtown and the Financial District. Maybe it will be possible to find a good, reasonably priced restaurant for dinner in Midtown again.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link
No line at halal guys :)
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 03:28 (three years ago) link
Mine has a branded tub of Fireball miniatures https://t.co/1pX9WLunQZ— Tom Gara (@tomgara) March 30, 2021
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
The wiiiife and i have been seriously brown bagging it for the last year and let me tell you we do not intend to stop
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
open container laws are a fucking joke
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
what IS up with all the Fireball at counters all of a sudden? some new idea by their local sales managers, or did some mafiosos take possession of a truckload?
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
― o. nate, Monday, March 29, 2021 9:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
As much as I don't like midtown and FiDi, it's hard for me to imagine things not getting bad in those areas in the short to medium term, like I just don't see how you quickly repurpose that much office space, and I don't see how you get enough traffic into those areas to support businesses without the office space.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
without that office space being occupied I mean, obv
This can of beer and a large paper coffee cup, please
― calstars, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
The New York state legislature formally voted to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana for adults and expunge the records of people previously convicted of possession.
make it the new W33d District
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
Hamsterdam
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 13:46 (three years ago) link
New Hamsterdam
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
happy legal weed day
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:35 (three years ago) link
No more Pyramid Club.
First NYC bar I ever set foot in. It was that and Babyland down Avenue A the same night.
― Josefa, Thursday, 1 April 2021 22:38 (three years ago) link
Places I thought were already .....
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 April 2021 00:11 (three years ago) link
Yeah I probably should have dropped in there at some point in the past 20 years. See what happens.
― Josefa, Friday, 2 April 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
get out there and drop dem tens
― calstars, Friday, 2 April 2021 00:37 (three years ago) link
We went once, sometime in the past 6ish years, out of nostalgia. It was the classic 80s night and it was a bit like a theme park in a sad way.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 2 April 2021 00:45 (three years ago) link
walked around chelsea for a half hour today, it's fucking bleak out there.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 April 2021 04:44 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/nyregion/nyc-population-pandemic-recovery.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 April 2021 05:17 (three years ago) link
many VAX avail at Javitz apparently (1030AM, Friday 4/2)
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 2 April 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
There has been temporary dislocation, but I think it’s mostly a phenomenon among people who have the resources to move. If you ask me what the real threat to the city is, I will tell you the real threat is that we stop attracting immigrants.
BOOMING POST
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 2 April 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
I was around Union Square area briefly today -- first time back in the city in some months -- and it certainly did not feel dead. Maybe slightly less bustling than before but even that is pretty bustling by the standards of anywhere else.
Did not feel like I had missed Manhattan atmosphere, but had a couple slices of Joe's pizza and certainly did miss that.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 4 April 2021 20:43 (three years ago) link
ffs
What a perfectly normal, functional city we have here. https://t.co/CpHJvfJY1X pic.twitter.com/PbQS2e8Gq9— Chris 😷'Leary (@ohhleary) April 20, 2021
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
I don't get it, why would undercover cops be getting rid of OpenStreets barriers? They don't seem like the most likely suspect at all to me?
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
seems v plausible to me - cops love cars, love driving, and are aligned politically with reactionary car drivers who view Open Streets, like bike lanes etc., as illegitimate namby-pamby uses of space which could instead be devoted to driving as fast as possible at all times. so if they have secret fake amazon vans and an attitude of total impunity to rules/oversight/procedure, why not use the vans to destroy the Open Streets?idk, it makes as much sense as a non-cop with similar beliefs and a fake (or legitimate!) Amazon van doing the same thing.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
Cops know they’re gonna get away with it whereas amazon employees would absolutely get sold out by the mothership if there was a hint of bad press. And now there is regardless if amazon is letting the NYPD clone their vehicles for surveillance purposes xp
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
oh well if the argument is "it's probably an off-duty cop just acting on his own" well then sure no doubt, I thought they were saying this was an actual NYPD operation
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 19:34 (three years ago) link
If a cop does it does it matter if its official or not
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
i think the idea is that it might be an actual NYPD operation to have fake Amazon vans (nobody knows, because there is no meaningful oversight of this thug agency), and officers might choose to use that resource to carry this out. agreed with Jimmy the Mod, whether that's done off duty or not would be effectively meaningless.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
dudes who wear sandals on the street, what are you thinking? You’re in LA?
― calstars, Sunday, 25 April 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
i think i'm going to the bodega but if you catch me more than two blocks from my house, please feel free to heckle
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 April 2021 22:28 (three years ago) link
“You look like an idiot”I don’t know how else to say it
― calstars, Sunday, 25 April 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
Wow New York sounds harsh, relax
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 26 April 2021 01:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-view-from-inside-a-brooklyn-junior-highhttp://media.newyorker.com/photos/608717a08f675fab920cdbf3/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/Meisler-Bushwick-13.jpg
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 April 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
Excellent !
― calstars, Thursday, 29 April 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
Wow, I love that.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 29 April 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
the photo essay I mean, not the statement that Mrs Miester is a Bitch. No opinion on that one.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 29 April 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
you mean "bicth"
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Thursday, 29 April 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
clearly says eicth
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 April 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
MC Eicth from Brooklyn's Most Wanted
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 29 April 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2147135/rough-trade-nyc-moving-to-rockefeller-center/news/
Huh?
― Evan, Monday, 10 May 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
Wow!
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
Ok…
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 10 May 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
Their poor staff
― ian, Monday, 10 May 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
Great location actually, catch those tourist dollars snapping up them one direction LPs and such
― calstars, Monday, 10 May 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
I used to work right there, on 52nd Street, and would sometimes shop at the Coconuts which for all I know was in the exact same location, but I didn't feel great about it.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
Held me over until Other Music opened, I guess.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
I found this in Wikipedia, under 1290 Avenue of the Americas, which I guess is a block up from the new Rough Trade, on 51st.
Back in the 1990s, when I was based in New York City, this was a location of Coconuts. And on 21 November 1994, Mariah Carey was here to do a meet-and-greet to sign her then-new Christmas release, Merry Christmas. A key single from that album, "All I Want for Christmas Is You," went on to become the most popular Christmas song ever.On that day, I was right here. The bank lobby to the right was the store entrance, and this ATM lobby was where Mariah would have sat at a desk to meet with the fans. Out where I am on the sidewalk was where the line was - circling the entire block. After a 12-hour wait, I managed to say hello, and have a chat. (The meet-and-greet ran only two hours, 5PM to 7PM. I had arrived at dawn to line up.)This event marked my first-ever meeting with my favorite celebrity. I would not have another celebrity meeting until 2006.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
citation needed
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 May 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
Heh. Let’s see if this works:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1290_Avenue_of_the_Americas_(formerly_Coconuts_record_store);_site_of_the_historic_1994_meeting_between_Mariah_Carey_and_yours_truly_(7231532572).jpg
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
DO U SEE?
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link
Lol at coconutsI think I bought the stones “flashpoint” at the location on 6th ave and 8 st.
― calstars, Monday, 10 May 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
Thanks. Have they ever been mentioned in an RIP Brick and Mortar Record Store thread before, I wonder.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
i assume part of the reason for this is that the rent on 2000 sq ft of commercial space in midtown manhattan is <<<<< the rent on 10000 sq ft in williamsburg. it might even be less than the rent on 2000 sq ft in williamsburg.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 10 May 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link
Yeah really curious to see what happens in Manhattan. My anecdotal data suggests Williamsburg is totally popping and even downtown Manhattan is lively but flatiron to midtown is a ghost town.
― dan selzer, Monday, 10 May 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
woooo midtown is where I work, and I revisit the office for the first time in over a year tomorrow. kinda excited. to get chopt for lunch.
― chinavision!, Monday, 10 May 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
fyi I like midtown
― chinavision!, Monday, 10 May 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
Me, I am looking forward to eating at Cava again.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
that's my alternate, but after a year of... not being so great about exercising, the green salad might get pride of place
― chinavision!, Monday, 10 May 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link
TS CAVA vs. Chopt
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 May 2021 23:34 (two years ago) link
Chopt does have the reggae soundtrack thing going for it as well.
Also hear you about the exercise
I guess I forgot about the reggae soundtrack. tomorrow will be the first time I *ever* commute from my current apartment to work. moved in last july. what a trip!
― chinavision!, Monday, 10 May 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
I had cava for lunch today. Falafel pita. They fucking smothered that thing in sauces
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
And how did that work for you?
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 00:14 (two years ago) link
👍🏻
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
Got halal guys a few weeks ago and let me tell you how awesome it was
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 00:25 (two years ago) link
Why don't you bring on over to: The Flashy Crawl on Biryani Carts, Convenience Stores, etc.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link
Cava is the best. Halal Guys is has nothing on Sammys Halal and it makes me angry.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
I am baffled by the love for Halal Guys. They have the worst hot sauce and white sauce I’ve ever had. I would take generic halal truck over them any day.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 01:45 (two years ago) link
You know what’s underrated though speaking of bowl places - Dill & Parsley. That place is the tits.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
All those office lunch factory spots are soul sucking imo
― Evan, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:10 (two years ago) link
You got a better idea?
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link
Man I’m getting so hungry thinking about dill and parsley. If it sucks my soul, it does so deliciously.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
Well yes not many options in midtown
― Evan, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:13 (two years ago) link
I mean these are office lunches, not dining experiences. I’m comparing them to what I can get for lunch (outside of the apt) in my Bronx neighborhood.... and could eat on a daily basis without falling asleep in the afternoon.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:26 (two years ago) link
Yeah when I worked in midtown it was great. I wouldn’t like drive down there for it but it was good eats. Also the teriyaki cart.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
Hey Andrew yang, Take it to the upstate thread or something
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link
People who leave NY are always experts about NY
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 02:49 (two years ago) link
Where are you from calstars?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
Remember those numbered Afghan Kebab Houses what ever happened to those
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
I never found Afghan Kebab House #1, the lowest number was Afghan Kebab House #2, I think it was in Woodside. I was so excited when i found that.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 04:59 (two years ago) link
The #5 was like half a mile down the street from me at the time, I was kind of baffled by the name and more than curious to know the locations of Afghan Kebab Houses #1-4 and 6-How many were there?
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 05:01 (two years ago) link
Loathe to admit it but Cava is really good.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 05:05 (two years ago) link
First time I walked into a sweetgreen, I thought, wow they have sabzi yess this is too good to be true, and it was. I think that was also the last time I walked into a sweetgreen.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 05:07 (two years ago) link
Google maps shows 3 remaining Afghan Kebab Houses in NYC, their awnings read "Afghan Kebab House #1" , "Afghan Kebab House" and "Afghan Kebab House Floral Park".
But I don't know if Afghan Kebab House #1 is the real Afghan Kebab House #1 or only got promoted to #1 after the closure of other Afghan Kebab Houses.
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 05:52 (two years ago) link
There’s no Afghan kebab house in Woodside. There’s one on Jackson Heights. My favorite Manhattan lunch factory may be Hummus and Pita Co. Also Sophie’s Cuban is a dependable chain.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 11:43 (two years ago) link
my brother in law swears by "dig inn" but the name is disqualifying imo.
― adam, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
I love any business that uses the ‘in’ —> ‘inn’ construction
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
i like the double pun of the classic "dew drop inn" but the word "dig" isn't something i want adjacent to my office drone lunch bowl
― adam, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 13:57 (two years ago) link
It’s great but it’s rebranded. It’s now just Dig. Somebody agreed with you.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
if they agreed with me it would just be "inn"
top union square lunch slop stop is rainbow falafel though it is instant heartburn agony
― adam, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
I was once staying in a fancy hotel in NYC on someone else's time and I got Halal Guys and ate it in my expensive hotel room and felt a frisson
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
Blue Afghan House No. 3
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
dig inn/dig is definitely adequate lunch fare, beats chipotle or five guys or whatever. feels ok to be eating a meat and couple of veggies. probably oversalted but otherwise good enough. amazing what you can accomplish in business by just taking "picadilly cafeteria" and making it all upscale and designy.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
The thing is, it's office lunches/eating at your desk that's soul sucking. These bowl places try to improve the situation by bringing a bit of dignity and serving something resembling real food. They can't overcome the situation, but it's not their fault.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
fair point!
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
would love a union square picadilly
the great innovation is the online ordering bit. sweetgreen is so much sweeter when you just walk in grab your shit and leave. truly do not understand waiting on line at these places
― adam, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link
I agree eating at your desk makes it very difficult to really savor a meal. Also, midtown around Bryant Park is pretty good, but if you get too close to Central Park, it becomes kind of a dead zone. I thought I'd tried Cava but I realized I was confusing it with Naya, which is a similar concept.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
is maoz still going?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
Last I knew, there was maybe one left, over by Port Authority.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
Watching Serge Gainsbourg made me have a Coconuts flashback.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
― ncxkd, Sunday, 23 May 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
No, maoz is gone. Also, it was gross.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Monday, 24 May 2021 03:00 (two years ago) link
I think the food court at the Roosevelt Feild Mall in Long Island might still have a Maoz, but i haven't been there in years.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Monday, 24 May 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
Also there's a dig inn down the street from me and you can smell the rancid oil half a block away.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Monday, 24 May 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
dig inn is too oily, i agree.
― treeship., Monday, 24 May 2021 03:36 (two years ago) link
sweetgreen is good if you want to spend your whole paycheck on lunch. i no longer live that life though i am a suburban guy but there was a time.
I never actually tried sweetgreen, I was so disappointed to find their "sabzi" isn't actually sabzi khordan that i walked out in disgust, never to return.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Monday, 24 May 2021 03:44 (two years ago) link
I can't imagine that Maoz's concept of "build your own falafel from a salad bar" would translate well to the age of Covid.
― o. nate, Monday, 24 May 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link
was out in Manhattan on a Saturday night in well over a year. such a wild vibe out there atm! it's a trip
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 24 May 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
same here, it was really something
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 24 May 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
andrew yang will be america’s first-ever NPC mayor. as his campaign director my job mostly involves crawling through ventilation ducts and disabling security turrets. he pays me in smoke grenades https://t.co/kB2Ia578NA— Jon Bois (@jon_bois) May 24, 2021
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 May 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
So glad movie theaters are back ❤️ pic.twitter.com/N300NKmQmT— Lebbertoxd (@InsaneLetterbox) May 29, 2021
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 31 May 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
so there is a curfew at Washington Square now and the fucking riot geared nypd just go in and start beating people after 10:00? sounds cool
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 7 June 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
Also Union Square and Tompkins Square Park.
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Monday, 7 June 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
it's fucked
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
police only do this when they are VERY stressed and underfunded! please don't post videos of them doing it :(
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 03:26 (two years ago) link
“The park has turned into a nightmare for those of us with kids,” said local resident Maria Rose. “There's constant drugs, constant nudity. There's sexual acts here all the time. The trash in the mornings has become really obscene and it's really not a place for kids anymore, let alone adults.”
Since when??? I thought all the fun stuff stopped decades ago tbh
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 05:06 (two years ago) link
Lol @ "really not a place for kids anymore"
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 05:07 (two years ago) link
The drugs, nudity, sexual acts, trash and obscenity getting to be a little to much for even the youngest of kids
― Fart low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 08:00 (two years ago) link
Guessing obscene trash = used condoms but she could also be referring to drug-related waste i suppose
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 08:15 (two years ago) link
local residents are just cops who don’t get paid for it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:00 (two years ago) link
It’s about to be summer is a city where people live in overpriced closets and bars are open till 4:00 but you can’t sit in a park after 10:00? Mayor’s office is deferring to the NYPD on this matter. How the fuck can the police decide on public park curfew with no input from elected officials. Some bullshit
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
I don't think I've been to Washington Square Park on a Friday or Saturday night since maybe high school, but Bloomberg had a clear vendetta against that site in particular and there was a protracted effort to restrict access to the park, especially to skateboarders and people hanging around the fountain.
I had thought this effort was more or less successful in killing off the park once and for all. Guess not.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
Regardless, the idea that it's supposed to be a kid friendly neighborhood park is hilarious.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
At the center of a nightlife destination popular with New Yorkers who don't live in the immediate area, suburbanites and tourists, NYU etc. Kids coming in from Long Island and New Jersey to buy their bongs.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
Granted there are some ridiculous luxury buildings on the perimiter of the park, like One Fifth Avenue (the "Levandusky" co-op), but still.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
i'm gonna be a single-issue acab voter in the mayoral primary i am sick of this nonsense
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
That plus charter school support is why not to rank Adams or Yang anywhere on the ballot. And I'm not too happy about K Garcia either.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
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Do you have a vision that requires channeling it through Architecture and identifying an ideal space where you can introduce your own signature style? How about creating your own Zen environment in an iconic prewar building dripping with all the 20th century character one could ask for. It's all here and awaiting you in 405 West 23rd St, Residence 11J, at London Terrace Towers in West Chelsea.
You'll go bonkers over the original circa 1920's steel entry door, door frames, radiator covers + window-sills waiting to be brought back to their original luster. Under the paint layers you'll discover a solid beech wood bathroom door and original baseboards framing 3 " solid-oak plank flooring throughout and complimented by a 9' +/- concrete beamed ceiling. This is perfection with a blank canvas to fashion your hearts-desire. The casement style sound insulating windows allow for stunning views of New York City's urban oasis.
Are you able to visualize what to do with a separate windowed galley kitchen waiting to be transformed into a practical and efficient space? How about introducing an abundance of cabinetry, stone counters and install an island breakfast bar with seating. The choices are endless since this home will be enjoyed for many years to come!
Let's not overlook an excellent condition and fully subway tiled prewar bathroom w / extra-deep cast iron soaking tub, porcelain pedestal sink, medicine cabinet + polished chrome hardware & fixtures. The original signature London Terrace Towers black and white mosaic tile flooring reminds one of an era-gone by.
The enormous walk-in closet can be opened to the main room to create a Bed Alcove area or remain as is with being equivalent space for 3 enormous closets. You will surely design the best fit for your lifestyle!
The sizable Great Room is just shy of 14' wide and will accommodate full living, dining and work environments. There is absolutely brilliant sunlight streaming in throughout the day and you'll find twinkling cityscape lights in the distance a romantic backdrop in the evening hours. Yes, truly sublime!
When one wishes to adjust the temperature, a Friedrich brand 12,500 BTU, under window and through-wall AC unit provides the ultimate cooling experience.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 13 June 2021 02:50 (two years ago) link
Well written
― calstars, Sunday, 13 June 2021 12:06 (two years ago) link
big smoove b energy
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 13 June 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
There was more of this but I couldn't make it past "the ultimate cooling experience".
Can't tell if the guy is clowining.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Monday, 14 June 2021 02:25 (two years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQOVFOvn--F/
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 04:46 (two years ago) link
I've seen a dozen warnings that the ballot is confusing and people are going to get it wrong...but I'm looking at my absentee ballot and it seems pretty straightforward?
How is everyone else finding it?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
it was fine for me and i feel like the "ITS SO HARD"-ness is a conversation that is had/handwrung every election regardless of voting style? like, most people are stupid, don't forget...
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
it's not difficult but it is tedious
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 22 June 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
it's fine. it required some research for some of the downballot position and i wasn't aware there was ranked voting for comptroller for instance but i was voting lander only in any case, so...
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
only thing that bummed me out is last night I read that the two running for judge in queens were a "pick any two" so I didn't research them and then when I got there it was "pick one"
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
For comptroller there was some thing where you were supposed to vote for Corey Johnson second for some reason.
the only confusing part for me was remembering to only pick one for the DA race, since that one isn't ranked-choice
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
we didn't have that in queens, but my city council race had 1000 candidates.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
Because I voted absentee, I had time to look up the judges, and I'm glad I did. I specifically have a bone to pick with the Kings County Democratic Committee, as a member of it who got dragged through a 12-hour zoom meeting right before Christmas where the party leaders just straight up lied to everyone and obstructed the progress that was legally supposed to happen.
I was not exactly thrilled to vote for my incumbent council person but she's better than her absolutely insane rival.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
couldn't quite bring myself to vote for paperboy prince
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
i ranked him fifth bcuz by that point i had forgotten what order i was supposed to be doing
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 22 June 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
.@ericadamsfornyc “I’m going to promise you in one year, one year, you’re going to see a different city.” Promises economic development, Bitcoin, self-driving cars, renewed businesses.— Sally Goldenberg (@SallyGold) June 23, 2021
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
So are all of the candidates just crackpots
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 05:16 (two years ago) link
greatest city in the world iirc
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 08:14 (two years ago) link
Bitcoin? Uhhh
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 11:00 (two years ago) link
hoping against hope for some unlikely combination of mail-in ballots and ranked-choice developments to still deliver us Mayor Wiley or, as a fallback, Mayor Garcia. Yang being out of the running is certainly a relief. but Adams is essentially a Republican and really does not bode well.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:06 (two years ago) link
nice to see though that some hedge fund manager completely wasted their money sponsoring the approximately 400 million glossy Ray McGuire mailers dumped on the city's mailboxes over the past month
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
The police unions hate Adams though don’t they?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
they hate everybody! anyway it's inconceivable adams would in any way restrain the police anymore than BdB has. his campaign has been like 95% "i was a cop and i carry a gun and crime is out of control."
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
Wiley's got my (absentee) vote!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
I voted early and it was really the most pleasurable voting experience ever. I got to share the process with my kids and was easy as pie to mail in.
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
I don't get this part at all -
The first round of ranked-choice voting analysis will eliminate the bottom candidate, recount votes accordingly, then continue until there is a winner with 50% of the vote. The process will kick off next Tuesday, June 29, and will include only in-person votes. Absentee ballots will be counted a week later, on July 6, and the process could recur the week of July 12 if uncounted or controversial ballots remain.
Absentee ballots will be counted a week later, on July 6, and the process could recur the week of July 12 if uncounted or controversial ballots remain.
How can they do the ranked-choice stuff before they count the absentee ballots? Won't the absentee ballots change the order of the rankings?
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
not enough outstanding ballots to alter the bottom quartile
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
I'm relieved to see Cornegy (probably?) out of range for Brooklyn Borough Pres, I must say.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
I guess I live in a Jimmy Van Bramer bubble, had not idea he'd be so decimated for Queens Borough Pres.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
A certain amount of work went into this:
https://www.vulture.com/2021/06/nyc-mayors-race-who-every-nyc-tv-character-would-vote-for.html
― Alba, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
immediate quibble: tom from succession is definitely a registered republican
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
don’t really understand why this is such a long process. why wait a week to analyze in-person votes, which are presumably all scanned and easily to work with?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/new-york-citys-mayoral-election-didnt-meet-the-moment
All other issues shrank in the face of the public-safety debate. Little time was given to discussion of public health, for instance, despite a pandemic that is still infecting hundreds of New Yorkers a day, or climate change, despite how little has been done to protect the city since Hurricane Sandy, in 2012. Most of the candidates’ campaign platforms contained detailed, serious policy plans on a range of issues, including housing, education, and economic development, and most of the candidates could discuss those details competently in public. But few of these details filtered out to voters. On Sunday, two days before primary day, Garcia, a former sanitation commissioner who made climate resilience a centerpiece of her campaign, shook hands with voters outside Zabar’s, on the Upper West Side, where one would expect to find many voters open to her pragmatic, get-stuff-done attitude. “A bunch of people tell her they’re voting for her,” Politico’s Erin Durkin tweeted from the scene, “though one woman vocally noted she’s for @ericadamsfornyc ‘because he’s a vegan and that’s the #1 thing you can do to save the planet.’ ”
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
it was an oddly muted and sometimes divorced-from-reality-feeling election/campaign process. in particular it felt like everyone was weirdly afraid of offending any Democrats currently in power. surely someone could have made hay out of how little BdB has accomplished in two tersm, or how much Cuomo has screwed the city under his watch...? i guess these are partly just "incumbent party problems" but in general the conversations were so vague or focused on very specific issues rather than an overall picture of what the city should be like.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
TIL that Curtis Sliwa has 15 cats.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 23 June 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
I had my mayoral choices ranked but I didn't realize I'd have to rank city council, comptroller and borough prez until my coworker mentioned it. I spent at least an hour deciding my ranking of the many City Council District 26 candidates. I ranked as # 1the person who came to my door twice--and he was ahead at the beginning of election night but now he is being overtaken by my #2. I think Jumane Williams had the advantage in being an incumbent for Queenz prez (and he also got a lot of the union endorsements) -- but I wasn't expecting Elizabeth Crowley to do so well.
If it's Adams we are in for a lot of random crazy politics in the next few years. At least the tabloids will have something to do. Adams says or does something ridiculous every day -- it's like having our own mini Trump for the city. My union endorsed him -- so I guess they are hoping that he will fund city agencies.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 24 June 2021 03:35 (two years ago) link
District 26 was insane. A few of them came to my door. A few of them tried to stop me at the farmer's market. My wife contacted Julie Won, Amit Bagga and Haile Kim and gave them tours of Doughboy Park and Windmuller Playground to show them what a mess they are, Doughboy's extensive construction and dirt piles, Windmullers lack of any kinds of gates on the playground, rubber tiles under the playground structures installed upside down = slippery, and of course our great water feature, which was knocked over by a park truck so now is just a geyser spraying out of the ground.
I voted for, in this order: Won, Bagga, Haile Kim, Julia Forman and Jesse Laymon.
I see Won just overtook Bagga. I assumed Bagga would win and is probably a better "politician" than Won and figured it didn't hurt to put her first. Denise Keehan-Smith was a turn-off by going on and on about how many generations her family's been in Woodside and how important it is that she was born here. It's one of the most immigrant-heavy diverse places in american, who cares if you were born here! Emily Sharpe meanwhile put up actual billboards and barely made a dent.
A friend who's dealt with Woodside on the Move said Brent O'Leary was no good. I don't know the full story, I still give them money.
You mean Richards for Borough Pres. Agreed about Crowley but surprised about JVB. My wife said "we definitely live in the Jimmy Van Bramer bubble"! In Sunnyside/Woodside he seems like such a big player but obviously he doesn't have the recognition outside of District 26.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 24 June 2021 04:56 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgwHpxq-Jfw
― dow, Thursday, 24 June 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
eric adams to vanity fair on monday:
What’s the best concert you’ve ever been to?
Curtis Mayfield at the Wingate Concert Series. At that concert there was a rainstorm and the lights fell on Curtis Mayfield and they actually paralyzed him at that concert. He died a few years ago, but it was an amazing concert before that happened. Just so unfortunate.
― adam, Friday, 25 June 2021 12:01 (two years ago) link
Hi
NYC MAYOR RANKED CHOICE RESULTS ARE UP! (only early + in-person votes, no absentees yet)Final Round:Eric Adams 51.9%Kathryn Garcia 48.9%This is a real race folks. The uncounted absentee ballots have the potential to put Garcia over the top.— Ryan Matsumoto (@ryanmatsumoto1) June 29, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
I still don't get how that makes sense. Don't they need to add the absentee ballots in first so they can determine the order candidates get eliminated in?
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
Also there’s a typo. It’s adams 51.1.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
Or is it like "that's what the results would be without absentee ballots - and the absentees are enough to change things, so now we re-do the whole ranked-choice count"?
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
You can run the rounds with the votes you have. This is a hypothetical final round. Wiley could still win in principle. Point is it’s close.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
Yes xp
ahh, ok - "What will happen on Tuesday is essentially an exercise: It will show only who would win based on votes that have already been tallied — that is, who would win if, hypothetically, there were no absentee ballots. Later, after absentee ballots have been counted, the board will take the new total that includes them and run a new set of elimination rounds — the real ones, for the final result."
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
The gap should tighten but that’s a big gap.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
looks like when it gets down to 3, Garcia has 236146 votes (29.8%), Wiley 232340 (29.3%)
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
you can go through the steps here (although it skips some late?)
https://web.enrboenyc.us/rcv/index.html
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link
Here it is without typos and with an explanation
*Preliminary, in-person only* RCV results! Eric Adams hold on, but Kathryn Garcia narrows the gap significantly. 16,000 vote gap in the end, but 125,000 absentee votes have yet to be factored in. https://t.co/Cqrefe4OgY pic.twitter.com/MduxoiWgga— Jeff Coltin (@JCColtin) June 29, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
They do. This is basically just for funsies and I have no idea why they’re reporting it.— Daniel Festa (@_danfesta) June 29, 2021
explain the world in one tweet
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
What’s the best concert you’ve ever been to?Curtis Mayfield at the Wingate Concert Series. At that concert there was a rainstorm and the lights fell on Curtis Mayfield and they actually paralyzed him at that concert. He died a few years ago, but it was an amazing concert before that happened. Just so unfortunate.― adam, Friday, June 25, 2021 8:01 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― adam, Friday, June 25, 2021 8:01 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah I saw this too. Pretty deranged stuff.
― treeship., Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
Go Go Garcia
― calstars, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:23 (two years ago) link
Adams claiming the results look suspicious, sounding like another New Yorker I remember
― treeship., Tuesday, 29 June 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
Huh. I don't remember if I ranked Garcia. That may have been a mistake.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
Tabulating the incomplete rankings when absentee ballots are not yet out is just a recipe for provoking more confusion and outrage when late mail ballots skew progressive, as they have done to a huge degree in Seattle for years. It allows headlines about a “comeback” in the days after Election Day but it’s just an artifact of which votes are counted when.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
The ranking complicates this logic, but if the 16000 vote gap were in a two-way race the person trailing would need 70,500 of 125k (56%) of outstanding ballots, which is within the realm of possibility. So whoever this fucker is could still lose.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link
Remember six months ago when we were all doing this for individual counties in Pennsylvania, good times
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
I can't do the math but I wonder if there's any chance the absentee ballots could put Wiley back ahead of Garcia.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
*supposedly* the districts featured heavily in the absentee ballots lean garcia, but who knows. (not sure about wiley tho.) and yeah releasing results piecemeal like this is absurd
also why the fuck does this take so long? it's a million votes; entire european countries count this shit in a matter of hours, not weeks
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
Generically the issue in the US is late postal votes. In New York specifically the problem is that the boe is a patronage mill of people who get out of bed at like 2 in the afternoon and can’t count to 100.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
absentee ballots weren't even due until today (as long as they were postmarked by election day)
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
It’s always great when “bungling” is in the headline
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link
Lmao
The Board of Elections appears to h ave taken down its ranked-choice tabulations from earlier today pic.twitter.com/xBjOuK3mhh— Dana Rubinstein (@danarubinstein) June 30, 2021
A lot of people have been blowing the whistle on NY's election administration for years, but this is the most botched election results reporting by an official agency I've ever seen in the U.S.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) June 30, 2021
We are aware there is a discrepancy in the unofficial RCV round by round elimination report. We are working with our RCV technical staff to identify where the discrepancy occurred. We ask the public, elected officials and candidates to have patience.— NYC Board of Elections (@BOENYC) June 29, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
What was wrong with the old style of voting, like where everyone gets one vote
― calstars, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
Lots of things rly
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
pee after sex or you’ll get an rcv— vacation ember 🐺 (@embernic) June 29, 2021
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:23 (two years ago) link
Here's a treat of a story about being an NYC poll worker:
Oh boy. Gonna break my twitter silence for a hot minute to talk about this election. I was a poll worker at a site that will remain nameless because I'd like to be allowed to do it again. Buckle up, buttercups, we're on an express elevator to hell, going down... https://t.co/t4IJRpHvvU— every cop is a policy failure (@Dr_Memory) July 1, 2021
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
oh god.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 July 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
made it about 10 tweets through that thread before closing my laptop in anger
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 July 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
I honestly don't understand the commotion about RCV. I thought it was obvious and easy to navigate. Yes I know everyone says it will be harder for "the elderly" which I'm sure that's true for some but there are mentally alert elderly people too. What I *do* know is that elected officials who had been in office for multiple terms and had budgets for community outreach DIDN'T DO COMMUNITY EDUCATION early enough, probably because some of them were trying to stop it from happening.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 1 July 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
oof
Eric Adams: 50.5Kathryn Garcia: 49.5--Fin--https://t.co/qGzrF0xeVf— David Freedlander (@freedlander) July 6, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
Looks like Wiley's votes went 2-to-1 to Garcia, but still wasn't enough.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link
Very annoying
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
That's an 8400-vote margin with 139,459 inactive ballots. Dammit.— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) July 6, 2021
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
New York has had a Black mayor. New York has never had a female mayor. This is a much closer result than I expected.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
Yuck
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link
bleahhh.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 11:57 (two years ago) link
So you think there is a way to use stop-and-frisk that isn’t abusive?Well, there’s a word that’s missing in there. It’s called stop, question, and frisk. So 2 o’clock in the morning, you look out your door, you see a person standing in front of your house. He places a gun in his waistband. You go to call the police, I hope. That police officer responds. He needs to be able to question that person, “What are you doing with that gun?” If we’re telling police officers you can’t question people, we are jeopardizing the safety of the city. Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there’s reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm. That’s not what we were doing. We were stopping and frisking people based on their ethnicities and based on the communities they were in. That will never happen under my administration.
Well, there’s a word that’s missing in there. It’s called stop, question, and frisk. So 2 o’clock in the morning, you look out your door, you see a person standing in front of your house. He places a gun in his waistband. You go to call the police, I hope. That police officer responds. He needs to be able to question that person, “What are you doing with that gun?” If we’re telling police officers you can’t question people, we are jeopardizing the safety of the city. Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there’s reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm. That’s not what we were doing. We were stopping and frisking people based on their ethnicities and based on the communities they were in. That will never happen under my administration.
Greeeeat
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
What a dumb answer. That's actually responding to a call, it doesn't have anything to do with stop-and-frisk, and the only reason to say it in response to that question is to avoid saying you're against stop-and-frisk.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
"Obviously we should be able to STOP someone who just fired gunshots and then FRISK them to see if they have a gun! So therefore I don't think we should completely end stop-and-frisk!"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
"stop, question, and frisk" = it's fine to stop and frisk someone as long as you interrogate them also
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
Which, i mean, they always do anyway
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
he was vocally against stop-and-frisk earlier in his career, maybe this'll be one of the many campaign promises he breaks en route to tammany hall 2021
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
Shahana Hanif, the councilperson i voted for appears to have won. https://www.shahanafrombk.comLander and Williams seem to have won handily as well. Adams seems a putz but generally the voting at the borough and district level seems progressive and positive. i have hope.
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
Eric Adams dined this evening at Rao’s with John Catsimatidis and Bo Dietl pic.twitter.com/bV0LPiPQc5— David Freedlander (@freedlander) July 9, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 9 July 2021 02:34 (two years ago) link
I read that for a moment as Eric Adams died this evening
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 9 July 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link
This guy is not good.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Friday, 9 July 2021 12:17 (two years ago) link
don't panic, he was just trying to negotiate a way to get vinyl back on hbo
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 July 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
That show is not good.
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 July 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
does kinda seem like a show that eric adams would like, though
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 9 July 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
I should watch one episode of that now that I have HBO Max. Just to see if it's really as bad as people say. (I already hate most "prestige TV," so I'll likely hate it even more than other people did, but my morbid curiosity is strong.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 9 July 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
People on Twitter are eulogizing the Astor Place Kmart. It never meant anything to me but apparently it was a very weird Kmart and people liked to rendezvous there before going out on the town.
― Josefa, Monday, 12 July 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
Lovely eulogy (from 2018, slightly premature) by ILM's own AlexInNYC:
Once upon at time, Kmart stood out like a cow pie on a prayer rug. Now it’s basically just a field of cow-pies, to use an incongruously rural analogy.
https://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2018/01/sunset-on-the-astor-place-kmart-.html
― o. nate, Monday, 12 July 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link
it was a weirdass kmart and everytime i went in there it felt like entering a retail tardis
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 July 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
Alex otm, mosly. RIP. I didn't live down there but didn't mind it, occasionally had a need to go in there and enjoyed seeing it from the subway platform.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 July 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
Ha, forks.
My only time there was Christmas shopping with my wife and looking for legos for someone. Let's just say I've seen swap meets in rural PA with a less discarded and depressed vibe.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Monday, 12 July 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
It was the NYU Kmart obv.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 12 July 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
All hail this king with the 40-foot RV, small car in tow, camping out on my block this week. He parked here after street cleaning on Monday. If NYC is going to give away public land for free, long-term car storage, people may as well turn it into affordable housing. pic.twitter.com/SViFC9GGBz— Aaron Naparstek (@Naparstek) July 13, 2021
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 04:46 (two years ago) link
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/the-bqe-is-covered-in-peppers-seek-alternate-routes/3174959
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
Yeah we’re running it a little bit hot tonightI can barely see the road from the habanero comin off of it
― calstars, Monday, 26 July 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
Another suicide at the vessel https://www.audacy.com/1010wins/news/local/teen-boy-dies-after-jumping-from-vessel-at-hudson-yards
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 29 July 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
Oh no
― calstars, Friday, 30 July 2021 12:11 (two years ago) link
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 July 2021 12:12 (two years ago) link
close that thing down wtf
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 30 July 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
what a completely horrible addition to the city that place has been. Who would have thought?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 30 July 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
The mall itself is beautiful but have never really taken to the vessel. Looks like a high school notebook doodle gone awry
― calstars, Friday, 30 July 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
Not NYC but Governor Cuomo is going down! good riddance to that jerk, always hated his BS tough guy energy.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
Good
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
Fantastic if true.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
I don't literally mean if it's true, of course it's true, I mean I don't want to underestimate his wiggling out of things power.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
honestly think requiring vaccines to go to the gym will move the needle the most
BREAKING: NYC to require screening for vaccination for entry to bars, nightclubs, restaurants, gyms etc. Will take effect in Sept.This is a critical measure to slow the rapid spread of Delta here, and to incentivize vaccination.https://t.co/QIWoRu2gGj— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) August 3, 2021
― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
Re cuomo: ah well nevertheless
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
yeah this seems possible, but who knows
Gavin Newsom is gonna get replaced by a guy who wins with 11% of the vote because every boat dealer in Orange County voted for him and Andrew Cuomo is still going to be the Governor of New York in 2055— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) August 3, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
Wow, that response from Cuomo is borderline psychopathic. He's not stepping down at all.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link
Vaccination screening only starts in September? Waiting a month seems like a long time
― badg, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
eat shit cuomo
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
gives people a month to confirm the rule with their staff and rehire as necessary
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
(both for cuomo and all of nyc i guess)
Also gives people a month to actually get vaccinated.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
Hey, give Cuomo some credit, he didn't actually grope anyone during his I-am-not-a-groper speech.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
wasn't expecting this
Eric Adams, the next mayor of New York City, calls for the State Assembly to impeach Andrew Cuomo if he does not resign. pic.twitter.com/vvApsqAgU5— Ross Barkan (@RossBarkan) August 3, 2021
― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
is that surprising? don't they hate each other?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
doesn't everyone hate cuomo?
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
Also prospective mayor, cop, weirdo and red-ass trying to consolidate Authority In A Vaccuum, news at 11
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 19:35 (two years ago) link
is biden on the record about this from when the allegations first came out?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
biden said cuomo should resign back in march
― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
yeah i thought so. i don't understand why people are saying it comes down to biden.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
Only one New York governor has ever been impeached — William Sulzer, who was impeached for campaign finance violations and removed from office in October 1913 after a three-week trial. Historians have said he was targeted for having crossed Tammany Hall, the corrupt political organization that had once backed him."During his tenure, his efforts to remove Tammany Hall influences in state government resulted in an investigation that discovered fraud in his own campaign contributions," the National Governors Association website said.Sulzer said his impeachment was a "political lynching" and "the culmination of a deep-laid political conspiracy to oust me from office."As for the impeachment process itself, Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor, said, "it's a lot like but not the same as in the federal system."Impeachment begins in the Assembly and "requires a majority of the members of the Assembly" to vote to charge the governor.Unlike the federal Constitution, New York's Constitution makes "no mention of high crimes and misdemeanors," Galie said. In terms of possible charges, "there's nothing there at all," leaving the way forward entirely up to the Assembly, he said.If the Assembly votes to charge the governor, a trial is held before the state Senate. Unlike in the federal system, the senators aren't the only judges/jurors. Judges from the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, hear the case, as well. That could be a boon for Cuomo, who appointed all seven of the judges.Gillers said the judges probably were added to eliminate appeals, because the "state high court judges would already have participated in the impeachment trial."A two-thirds vote is required for conviction, and the penalty is removal from office. The Senate and the judges could also vote to ban the governor from holding any other state office — a penalty that wasn't used against Sulzer. He was elected to the Assembly just weeks after he was impeached.
"During his tenure, his efforts to remove Tammany Hall influences in state government resulted in an investigation that discovered fraud in his own campaign contributions," the National Governors Association website said.
Sulzer said his impeachment was a "political lynching" and "the culmination of a deep-laid political conspiracy to oust me from office."
As for the impeachment process itself, Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor, said, "it's a lot like but not the same as in the federal system."
Impeachment begins in the Assembly and "requires a majority of the members of the Assembly" to vote to charge the governor.
Unlike the federal Constitution, New York's Constitution makes "no mention of high crimes and misdemeanors," Galie said. In terms of possible charges, "there's nothing there at all," leaving the way forward entirely up to the Assembly, he said.
If the Assembly votes to charge the governor, a trial is held before the state Senate. Unlike in the federal system, the senators aren't the only judges/jurors. Judges from the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, hear the case, as well. That could be a boon for Cuomo, who appointed all seven of the judges.
Gillers said the judges probably were added to eliminate appeals, because the "state high court judges would already have participated in the impeachment trial."
A two-thirds vote is required for conviction, and the penalty is removal from office. The Senate and the judges could also vote to ban the governor from holding any other state office — a penalty that wasn't used against Sulzer. He was elected to the Assembly just weeks after he was impeached.
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
Biden directly called on Cuomo to resign today.
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
P sure everyone either hates Cuomo or is afraid to admit they hate Cuomo. More people moving from latter to former camp now.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
There are signs all over NYC right now where worried-looking people ask things like, "Do the vaccines have any impact on pregnancy?" above the tagline "It's good to have questions" and a URL you can go to, and -- I'm no expert -- but maybe just put the answers on the ads?— Tim Carvell (@timcarvell) August 4, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
It’s with a heavy heart we share that a barred owl, a beloved Central Park resident, passed away early this morning. pic.twitter.com/AYEV0gXZIr— Central Park (@CentralParkNYC) August 6, 2021
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 6 August 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
;_;
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 6 August 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
just fucking gobsmacked
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 6 August 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/sometimes-youre-rat-sometimes-youre-great-blue-heron-swallowing-rat-whole
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 03:12 (two years ago) link
Great news!!
However, millions of rats were potentially killed due to flooding when the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit NYC last week.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
The Guitar Center in Brooklyn (@Flatbush and Atlantic) is apparently closed for good
― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 03:35 (two years ago) link
RIP Phil Schaap, NY will never be the same.
― ian, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
true dat
― What Does Blecch Mean to Me? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
My friends and I would listen to his shows keep track of his tangents and colloquialisms. My favorite was "I'm saying more and more about less and less"
― jbn, Thursday, 9 September 2021 02:04 (two years ago) link
RIP
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 September 2021 02:51 (two years ago) link
y'all I'm spending 24 hours in Flushing just for the hell of it, what should I do/eat/see in Flushing?
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
best chinese food in the country iirc, but i am completely unqualified to recommend any of it
maybe also ask here: 54-46, that's my number: the Queens thread
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
oh shit thank you!
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
housebound today but would love to see you!
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 September 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
I should have told you to come to Terraza 7, but I only just got here myself a little while ago.
― He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 October 2021 01:59 (two years ago) link
A man at this congestion pricing @MTA town hall said it would negatively impact businesses, using an example of a time he went into Manhattan for free Krispy Kreme and said he wouldn’t have if there had been a toll. @2AvSagas— scott rising (@rising) September 30, 2021
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 October 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
Oh boy
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 1 October 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
Stevie I didn't see this yesterday, I would have told you all the places!!!!
New World Mall basement food court. Go to the grocery store on the main floor to look at amazing unfamiliar fruits and the terrifying giant crabs trying to escape from their plexi holding cells. Steamed rice rolls at Joe's Steam Rice Roll which is right outside the mall. Nan Xiang Xiao for soup DUMPLINGS!!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 1 October 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
Sorry all I care about is food. I used to know where to play DDR and get cute stationery but I haven't been shopping there in years.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 1 October 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
Y’all don’t worry it’s not til tomorrow/Monday! I’m arriving in Flushing at like 7pm and then leaving the next day prob around 4?
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 2 October 2021 11:38 (two years ago) link
Sliwa says de Blasio has “taken a Miley Cyrus wrecking ball to this city”— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) October 26, 2021
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
…the latest skirmish began on Nov. 29 at a community meeting. James Stuckey, an executive vice president at Mr. Ratner’s firm, Forest City Ratner, was explaining the process of eminent domain…… asking the state to obtainproperty for them as a last resort … Mr. Stuckey said, would involve declaring properties in the proposed arena footprint "blighted." The word drew jeers frommembers of the audience, the newspaper reported, including one woman who yelled back, ‘You’re blighted!’"
― calstars, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
love it
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 09:12 (two years ago) link
In New York we always go big, so I’m going to take my first THREE paychecks in Bitcoin when I become mayor. NYC is going to be the center of the cryptocurrency industry and other fast-growing, innovative industries! Just wait!— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) November 4, 2021
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 November 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
Adams seems likely to me to be in jail by the end of the decade
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 November 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
― Josefa, Thursday, 4 November 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
Adams comment is surprisingly tone deaf. You can’t buy food or pay rent with crypto
― ncxkd, Thursday, 4 November 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
Between politicians shilling for crypto and TV now wall-to-wall sports gambling commercials, starting to feel like we're heading into an era of grand grift that will make all previous grift eras look like pikers.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 4 November 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
seems correct
Adams is like Trump where he has an incredible ability to have his finger on the pulse of what every dumb guy is thinking and repeat it back to them in a way that makes them think he's a dumb guy like they are. Rare skill for a politician— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) November 4, 2021
Handicapping the next 10 years: +200 Adams gets indicted and does non-trivial jail time +300 Adams becomes President +800 Adams does jail time THEN becomes President— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) November 4, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
i'm saying though
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
Impressive that NYC managed to elect two legit imbeciles mayor in a row.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 November 2021 01:10 (two years ago) link
NYC has had a bad run of mayors for... how long now?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 5 November 2021 03:44 (two years ago) link
la guardia was good
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 November 2021 04:28 (two years ago) link
laguardia killed the streetcar
― conrad, Friday, 5 November 2021 10:18 (two years ago) link
Offices are still too empty and too many workers are at home – that has an impact on our economy and ripples across the entire city. I’m putting a stake in the ground: It’s time to get back to the office. 2/— Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) November 18, 2021
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
I would imagine her point is more about what the lack of commuters does to the economy. I support WFH for sure but there are larger effects beyond upset landlords fwiw.
― Evan, Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
hmm a lot of tweeting when she should be opening up covid boosters to all adults
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
i understand that not having midtown offices full has an effect but i don't know that her putting a stake in the ground and telling people to just come back is the solution lol xp
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
totally agree!
― Evan, Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
Covid boosters are open to all adults in NY as long as it is 6 months after your second dose. I'm getting mine Saturday.
― hocus pocus, alakazam (PBKR), Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
that's for NYC, I don't think all adults in NY State are eligible yet.
― mizzell, Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
actually I see that they are available for anyone who "feels at risk" in NY State so basically everyone. not sure why they feel the need to qualify it like that.
― mizzell, Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
I think some employers are going to start mandating boosters for those who are eligible. Maybe that little qualification might delay that.
― o. nate, Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
I am 49 w/o any morbidities and just scheduled a booster.
"Governor Hochul encourages New Yorkers who are 18 and older and feel at risk to get their COVID-19 booster dose. This includes individuals who received their Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna initial vaccine series at least six months ago or the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at least two months ago."
I parse this as you are eligible if you feel at risk. Who doesn't feel at risk at this point? Anyone going into work in person, eating at a restaurant, shopping in a store could legitimately feel at risk.
― hocus pocus, alakazam (PBKR), Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
The boosters are widely available now. Getting a booster is not preventing someone else from getting it. Get it.
― hocus pocus, alakazam (PBKR), Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
I have to assume being Cuomo's Lt Gov was designed to be a permanent position and never a stepping stone to governor. NY doesn't have term limits. She doesn't seem like she was meant for this. Her messaging style is not great.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
yeah the booster messaging has been unclear, the nys gov website says you need to have an underlying condition (tho i know most pharmacies don’t really ask) and there’s no indication that rules in the city are any different
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
It's too late for everything to return to "normal". First of all, where are the cheap and plentiful and fast testing sites and test kits? Get that first.
But secondly, people don't want to come back. I'm back in the office 2 days a week and it's a ghost town. Meanwhile I have co-workers who are pushing to get everybody back in the office 5 days a week because they think that's best. While any number of people, especially people with longer commutes, are not feeling that.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
Hochul getting dragggggged for that tweet
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
they should just extend central park though most of midtown anyways
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 18 November 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
Make sure you get your $100 incentive by getting yr booster in a gov facility like Shea stadium.
― calstars, Thursday, 18 November 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
i will take my incentive in one (1) ticket to watch the new york knicks play basketball
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 November 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
got my booster at duane reade. was a nightmare. wife got hers at Elmhurst aka covid ground zero and got a crazy goodie bag of swag.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
Maybe I should head over there.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
She didn't get 100 bucks. Just a t-shirt and bracelet and booklets and stickers and stuff.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 18 November 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/photos-nyc-says-goodbye-east-river-park/
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 02:02 (two years ago) link
RIP the East River Park Amphitheater, original site of Shakespeare in the Park; scene of the climactic hip-hop concert in WILD STYLE; & site of countless graduation ceremonies & music/dance/theater performances, restored after 9/11 but razed by the city... https://t.co/LKNVraSLRY pic.twitter.com/b7I1tWDe4H— Mike Rubin (@rubinbooty) December 28, 2021
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 02:03 (two years ago) link
This some sad shit
― calstars, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 02:59 (two years ago) link
I spent so much time over there. Took a lot of pictures too because of rapidly accelerating Old Weird New York attrition awareness.
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 03:30 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/nyregion/eric-adams-mother-photo.htmlAnyone have a photo like this ( in a brandy snifter?)
― calstars, Sunday, 9 January 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/c7ewC1g.png
― calstars, Sunday, 9 January 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
Coming to NYC this December, Airbnb for comfort, got to start saving (but it's always nice when you're looking forward to something). Doing XMAS, will probably come back before new year though. Hyped. Pandemic levels withstanding of course.
― Ste, Monday, 10 January 2022 11:58 (two years ago) link
Goodbye to the R32 subway car, 1964-2022.
The first stainless steel NYC subway car, and the last to have a front window for passengers.
Rest in scrap.
― Josefa, Monday, 10 January 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link
Oh no is that the car that runs on the A and C trains??? Are they going away? That's too bad, I love riding in the front car and looking out the window.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 10 January 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
You're probably thinking of the R46 trains (orange seats). The R32s have grey seats.
The A/C line now I think is mainly R179 trains, which have blue seats.
― Josefa, Monday, 10 January 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
no I think you're right, the R32s were used on the A,C,J, and Z lines
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 10 January 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
Yeah on second thought you may be right, but when they last ran on the A/C lines I'm not clear on
― Josefa, Monday, 10 January 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
wikipedia says: "With the R179 delivery completed, the R32s were gradually phased out until the last train made its final trip on the C on March 26, 2020."
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 10 January 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
it's a bummer, but a long time coming - they were originally going to replace them years ago! I like to think I got the most enjoyment out of them that I could while they were around.
― chinavision!, Monday, 10 January 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
Ah well that explains it, it was early covid and I wasn't in the city at the time. Pour one out for the R32 front window. I lived on the C from 2000-2003 and on the AC from 2011-present, so I got a good bit of use out of them.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 10 January 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
yep I was definitely dreading the day, but at least was able to make peace with the pending loss. (though tbh, it's been awhile since I've ridden one now since I'm now firmly lodged up in the bronx.)
― chinavision!, Monday, 10 January 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
As big-box retailers reduce their brick-and-mortar presence in New York City, an emerging class of tenants is proving to be just what the doctor ordered.https://t.co/hpvvMqTKTg— The Real Deal (@trdny) January 10, 2022
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 January 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
can't wait til these close after the pandemic and become weed dispensaries
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Monday, 10 January 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link
and / or walk-in gambling parlors like they have in the uk
They are all totally going to become dispensaries
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 10 January 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
“After the pandemic”
― calstars, Monday, 10 January 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
15 minute groceries delivery joints.
― dan selzer, Monday, 10 January 2022 23:01 (two years ago) link
on a block near me THREE of these things opened side by side more or less simultaneously; they are all pretty much packed.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 05:51 (two years ago) link
Well this is quite the proposalhttps://t.co/HMvZekXzzo pic.twitter.com/T1Ps2Od1YF— Samantha Maldonado (@sssmaldo) January 14, 2022
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
lol that's so terrible
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
Real Estate: They're not making any more of i...
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
it's good but they should do more
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
amateur hour compared to
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJFHaW5X0AA4lLW?format=jpg&name=large
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
oh wow, now i wanna read up on that.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
I mean I don't know if that's a "good" idea or not. It's certainly an out there idea, and it seems so grandiose and expensive that I can't imagine it ever actually gets done.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:23 (two years ago) link
USA!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
should be a quick and easy job, definitely not worth looking at how well we're using our existing land
― chinavision!, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
Building new land in a tidal estuary is probably easier than dealing with that tbf
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:58 (two years ago) link
absorbing governor's island must be part of the government's "hammocks for all" initiative
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
I mean go for it I guess, it would be a good thing. I guess so much of new york seems just kind of underdeveloped and half empty when I walk around (not in manhattan)
― chinavision!, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
oh but an extension of a single local train plus a couple new g train stops is not gonna cut it
― chinavision!, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
i suppose the other argument for this is: you've got to do *something* to protect lower manhattan, so you may was well go for it.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link
it's not a totally insane move fwiw. most of the urban land in hong kong is on reclaimed land
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reclamation_in_Hong_Kong
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Hong_Kong_Reclamation_Map.png
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
huh, battery park city is in fact built on reclaimed land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_Park_City
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
Battery park city was built on landfill
― calstars, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:40 (two years ago) link
land reclamation has a long worldwide history, for sure. but wasn't HK dealing with more fundamental issues finding available sites, due to much more dramatic topography and to the nearby border with the PRC? and doing reclamation like this at scale in NYC is basically impossible at this point; the last realized efforts of this kind were Waterside Plaza (which is a platform on steel piles) and Battery Park City (on landfill from the WTC excavations among other things). then after that comes the Westway scheme of the 70s and 80s; that got tanked for many reasons but the silver bullet was the new regulatory regime of environmental impact review. the effect of this project on marine habitats and the hydrology of the entire Hudson and harbor system would blow Westway out of the water (ha ha).
and would this scheme actually solve any problems at all? for once the comments on that NYT story are pretty decent - reading through the first 10-20 should start to give the contours of what could be wrong here. the main thing for me is would be unspeakably expensive and take forever, versus changing policy and infrastructure to resolve the given list of problems using land that already exists, and solutions that activists are already calling for. if you have the the trillions of dollars lying around to build vast new territory all over the harbor, then it sounds like you could just acquire land to build a bunch of new public housing, incentivize developers to build middle-income stuff (through Mitchell-Lama type programs, say), and run a bunch of new transit all over the place. instead, we have a boondoggle that, based on recent experience of things like Hudson Yards, would obviously be structured such that the tax base fronts a huge amount of the cost (or at least the financial risk), while the benefits accrue to the developers of the skyscrapers and luxury condos that would actually get built here.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
people maybe forget how many single family housing-based neighborhoods there are in nyc outside of manhattan too? just loads of car dependent low density places. plus loads of no-longer-super-useful declining post-industrial sites (some which would be expensive to clean up, to be sure).
I can find you 200 acres of useless golf course in the southeast bronx for starters.
― chinavision!, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:07 (two years ago) link
oh haha that's built on a garbage landfill, I dunno if that works so well for housing then
― chinavision!, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
I've often talked about how surprisingly busy light industry is around east williamsburg, woodside, maspeth etc, small companies needing to be on the island and have warehouse space but close to manhattan. Many are "Industrial Business Zones" which makes sense and there should be more cheap industrial spaces where there's a desire. But maybe it's the pandemic but even just before I started seeing them empty out. Big printers and other firms. Huge empty buildings on an industrial street just adjacent to very nice residential Woodside here where I live. I'd love to see some of these broken up for affordable small industry or replaced with apts for affordable apts but they're likely just going to sit empty aren't they.
― dan selzer, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
now they are used for underground super speeder events parties
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 14 January 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
spreader*
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 14 January 2022 20:20 (two years ago) link
stoked for when greenpoint/east williamsburg is designated a superfund site https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0203407
(tbf, it's not the waterfront part it's the industrial part further in)
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
Hey Chinese character, where do you live?
― calstars, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
industrial maspeth sucks for public transportation but i know artist types in ridgewood who have studios there, easy bike ride. rust avenue is a wonderland.
this is a very enjoyable book about the history of landfill and building thereon in NYC, like all of laguardia and jfk are manmade land, plus most of lower manhattan.
― adam, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
Meeker Ave Plume is where my printshop was for a few years. Don't worry, my contribution was minor. It was also the site of the Xi'an Famous Foods factory/warehouse. Which later moved to Woodside. And is on the same block as my current printshop/office is. I walk 10 minutes to work, first I pass a halal live poultry slaughterhouse. Then I pass Xi'An. The smells can be a real trip.
― dan selzer, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
Xi’an is good shit
― calstars, Friday, 14 January 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
OMG DAYO!!!!Missed you here—I was gonna put you on ILX Milk Carton (again)
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 14 January 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
hullo! i was just reminiscing about shanghai the other day
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 21:40 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, January 14, 2022 2:40 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
battery park city is the rock and shit from the WTC construction
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 15 January 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
let's just fucking invade Connecticut already
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 January 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link
ugh, why
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 January 2022 03:58 (two years ago) link
we could use them for parking
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 January 2022 04:02 (two years ago) link
Seems like some kind of indicator that first-person tales of being mugged are now featured in the NYRBlog.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2022/01/07/notes-on-a-mugging/
― o. nate, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link
yeesh
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bVFFPVt.jpgWho can explain these shards of ice that have appeared on the street at every household garbage spot
― calstars, Sunday, 6 February 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
rain that collected in the folds of garbage bags, froze, then fell off and shattered when DSNY picked up the host bags?
― adam, Monday, 7 February 2022 00:18 (two years ago) link
or on the cans, yes
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 February 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
WECIB?
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 February 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
are all danes like this
You never see old people in the streets of NYC. In Copenhagen you do. It's a real city, not just some romcom dream for 20-somethings.— Paul Hünermund (@PHuenermund) February 5, 2022
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 February 2022 03:29 (two years ago) link
Idk man everyone in the nordic countries are hot
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 7 February 2022 04:06 (two years ago) link
that is not true.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 7 February 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
I know the bar for this is high, but is Eric Adams the most cringe NYC mayor ever?
Mayor Eric Adams says he’s going to hold a meeting with high profile rappers to address drill rap music, a contributor to gun violence in New York City. The mayor said he asked his son about the music, and he sent him some videos.— Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) February 11, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 February 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
The fuck
― calstars, Friday, 11 February 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
they're using rahm's chicago playbook, which worked out oh so well for everyone
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 February 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
I asked myself for eight years how an incompetent clown becomes mayor of the largest city in the most powerful country in the world. Guess it's four more years of that.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 February 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
So is Bloomberg the most competent administrator of the last 30 years, on a level of just seeming like a guy who can plausibly run a big operation? (Recognizing that he also had supervillain tendencies.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 February 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
his supervillain tendencies often worked in his favoradams is a disaster waiting to happen
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 February 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link
honestly yes. Bloomberg was a good administrator. I think a lot of why things weren't even worse under DeBlasio was that he was just able to coast on the structures set up by Bloomberg for a while, and the economy was good.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 February 2022 23:04 (two years ago) link
adams is going to be president or end up in jail
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 11 February 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
adams is going to be president or and end up in jail
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 12 February 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
https://www.bkmag.com/2022/02/17/threes-brewing-vaccine-mandate/
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
I didn't know that Lancelotti on Avenue A closed down for good. I bought a lotti cool housewares there over the years. Lancelotti, 1996-2021.
― Josefa, Friday, 18 February 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
does Wholesale Liquidators still exist? on Lafayette?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 February 2022 10:16 (two years ago) link
Lol I haven’t thought about that place in forever It’s gone
― calstars, Friday, 18 February 2022 11:50 (two years ago) link
New York City Plans to Stop Homeless People From Sheltering on Subways
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/nyregion/homeless-people-subway-trains-mta.html
Not sure how much effect this will have, but I guess Adams needed to do something about deteriorating subway conditions.
― o. nate, Friday, 18 February 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link
I play empty subway car lottery about once a weekThis week it was a couple of dead pigeons on the floor
― calstars, Friday, 18 February 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
glad to hear that the city is going to be giving all of these people places to live
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 18 February 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
Hotel rooms are waiting
― calstars, Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link
Can’t wait for the NIMBY protests
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:45 (two years ago) link
i share the common trepidation that this amounts to kicking people who have no resources and mental health issues out onto the street in the middle of the winter. otoh, dude who shit himself and has forced everyone out of his car is fucking up everyone else's life too, so something's gotta give.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 February 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
MIDTOWN!!!!! IS!!!!! BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/fZx2PSnzmC— Rachel Seville Tashjian (@theprophetpizza) March 1, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
Those privately-owned public spaces (POPS) provided in the ground floor of office buildings are always kind of weird. Kind of a glorified lobby with some seating. I guess its just a place to hang out if you need to kill some time and don't want to pay for coffee at Starbucks. Except they usually don't have restrooms, so thats a minus.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
Sad lol
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
“This place called black rock” uhh
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
There's one, maybe that one?, that largely functions as a pass-through between two streets in the middle of the block. :D
xp lol yeah
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
Oh great now that I've watched that video B**** R*** promotional reels are in my Twitter feed. Fucking life.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link
There's one, maybe that one?, that largely functions as a pass-through between two streets in the middle of the block. :Dxp lol yeah
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:44 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/nyregion/nyc-raised-crosswalks-traffic-deaths.html
surprised to see this coming from adams tbh
― 龜, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
Street-activist social media generally had positive rumblings when Ydanis Rodriquez got tapped for DOT, so I'm guessing maybe this is coming from him? 100 crosswalks a year doesn't really sound like a lot tbh, but every single one will slow down cars and potentially save lives.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:27 (two years ago) link
overall i would prefer a much more radical war-on-cars strategy. but absolutely anything to slow the cars down is a win imho. the couple in Glendale who are referenced and quoted in the article are friends of mine and they went through absolute hell last year.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
artisanal caltrops imo
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
I like the proposal. Seems like a no brainer
― calstars, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
Sorry for the "serious" Q, but are there any good pieces out there, maybe longform/thinkpiece, on the future of NYC in light of the likelihood that offices may never go back to full-capacity and at least aren't in the near future? Like on the economic/RE/business impacts of that and how they affect the city, its tax base, its services, restaurants, entertainment, transit, etc?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
Loud sex is ruining hundreds of New Yorkers’ lives, 311 reports show
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
A person in Queens said a neighbor was “shouting loudly that he is a sexual-tyrannosaurus.”
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
Seems fun
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
didn't realize you'd moved to queens
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
I'm loling at the thought that it was just someone singing along to T-Rex.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
311 is a joke
― calstars, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
Picturing an extremely short-armed dude fucking now, thx
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 3 March 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
Jesse Ventura's character in predator refers to himself as a sexual tyrannosaurus
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 March 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
yikeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/nyregion/brooklyn-woman-dismembered-body-shopping-cart.html
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 March 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
https://nypost.com/2022/03/03/nyc-sees-deadliest-february-for-car-crashes-as-red-light-running-spikes/
― 龜, Saturday, 5 March 2022 00:00 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kISETnL.pngThe fuck? Some jerkoff politician is getting a new wing on his house with blood money from people dying
― calstars, Saturday, 5 March 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
Has anyone seen a good explanation for why NYC rents are still so high? I just saw that offices are still only at like 30% capacity, so you’d get the impression that a lot of office workers would be leaving or would have left the city altogether.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:30 (two years ago) link
Not even “still” so high. Skyrocketing.
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:32 (two years ago) link
Right. Like how can it be that there’s no change in demand for NYC apartments?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:39 (two years ago) link
Or increased demand
my yuppie landlords (there was a nytimes "the hunt" quiddities piece about them buying the building i live in) are moving and want to rent their unit--a 1br lightly renovated in a highly joanna gainesish way--for $3300! in RIDGEWOOD!
― adam, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:20 (two years ago) link
Office workers left the city when the pandemic started. A lot of them probably moved back. Happy to not have to work/commute in manhattan, but still happy to live in the outer boroughs, and manhattan. It's all the office buildings in manhattan that are empty. They need to start converting them to apartments.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:47 (two years ago) link
"a 1br lightly renovated in a highly joanna gainesish way--for $3300! in RIDGEWOOD!"
I've gotten used to saying this over and over again for the last 20 years when it comes to NYC rents/neighborhoods further and further out becoming expensive, but holy fucking shit.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
Giant investment firms/hedge funds still own almost all property and would rather let apartments go empty than lower the rent. (They can stomach years of losses - hell, it's already baked into the tax code so they can write it off as soon as they own the building.) There is my conspiracy theory.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
That theory at least seems to make sense to my untrained mind
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link
Making New York Possible, is his banner title - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CashJordan
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:14 (two years ago) link
Damn, sry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW0mFzaMOto
― Nhex, Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:55 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I've heard vague explanations about how lowering the rent can also impact the commercial mortgages underlying these properties (I guess so long as you "could" rent it for x, the property can be valued based on that, but once you accept a lower rent, that can trigger provisions requiring additional collateral or something like that but tbh I'm talking out of my ass and don't know how it works).
still, after 2008, landlords did wind up having to lower rent for a while. I think you can only do these things for so long before it catches up with you.
Are landlords still offering a lot of "incentives" like "three months free rent" and stuff like that? That's usually a sign of landlords trying to keep rents looking artificially high. If they're not doing that, then not so much.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link
Reports are also showing very low vacancy rates, although IDK how that's calculated and whether it can be monkeyed with.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:28 (two years ago) link
I'm always looking for houses near my apt, which is a very middle class not particularly trendy part of NYC. A house is for sale 2 doors down from my apartment. It is a 2332 sq ft 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom. Price? $939,000
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
oh they just added pictures! Looks like maybe they used to have 2 bathrooms but one of them doesn't work? If this was a LOT cheaper I'd buy it and gut it.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3941-55th-St-Flushing-NY-11377/31956467_zpid/?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:41 (two years ago) link
does it come with the goose
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
you could rent out the shed for $3000/month
― Josefa, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:04 (two years ago) link
A little hard to believe that cramped-up looking house is over 2300 sf.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
including all the floors?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:15 (two years ago) link
just looks like a living floor and a bedroom floor to me. Basements and attics usually don't count toward sf.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
Yeah I don't see how those floors could be 1,100 sf each. I think they're cheating and counting the basement - note that the "total structure area" and "total interior livable area" are both 2,332 sf.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link
My partner and I are talking a lot about leaving the city these days. Big mix of reasons, but an important one is totally "what's ultimately possible for us, housing/neighborhood-wise?" The universe of people who can even think about buying million-dollar houses is so so so removed from our experience. At the moment we just feel fortunate that we've landed on a railroad we can afford, in a building we like, with a landlady who grew up in the building, still lives downstairs, and keeps everything really shipshape.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
Right. Like how can it be that there’s no change in demand for NYC apartments?― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:39 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:39 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is what happens when the population grows by 12% over 20 years and the number of housing units grows by 8%. 2020 was an aberration. my wife and i spent a lot of 2020 talking about how we would move back and rent in like tribeca or nolita without breaking a sweat. no more.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
the hip thing to do in ridgewood right now is to buy a house in glendale, just east of here. glendale is a benighted trumpy neighborhood of single family houses with shared driveways and 15-minute-minimum walks to the train. fixer-uppers are listed at 850k and go for more.
― adam, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:05 (two years ago) link
xpost right. also, that 8% has to be very disproportionately comprised of:
(A) super super super-high-end units in a comparatively small number of ultra-luxury skyscrapers for the 1% of the 1%(B) super high-end units in a larger number of still quite fancy skyscrapers, and/or high-design mid-rise buildings(C) not-all-that-nice units in a mushrooming number of badly-built, boxy mid-rise units, which are marketed as "luxury" anyway. despite bad construction and dubious, unlivable floor plans, these can be easily rented to 25-year-old graphic designers who will accept $1000+ for a room just big enough to hold a bed, in order to hold down a job which will barely allow them to keep up with that rent and with massive student loan payments, in the name of "experience" and "opportunity."
at the same time, large numbers of adequate or great units in older buildings are being lost to rapid gentrification ---- typically being renovated to the look, feel, and floorplans of category C, in order to pack in more people and bump up the rents on each of them. so tons of viable housing stock has effectively been disappearing or going up in price. i would not be surprised if someone did a comprehensive study of the city's pool of working- and middle-class housing and found that more was lost in the 2010s than the 1970s.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I know some "hipsters" (non-pejorative use) i.e. RISD art school folks who work in animation or whatever, designers and such, who've made the move to Glendale. Recently recommended it to someone looking to move back to NYC from Boston and who misses Brooklyn. Personally as someone who's lived in Woodside for 15+ years, I'm more a fan of these neighborhoods further north. Feel less beholden to Brooklyn. Until recently there were deals in parts of Woodside and Sunnyside, at least cheaper than parts of north brooklyn. Better deals may be found a bit further west in Elmhurst and Corona.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
I've assumed Glendale would be going that way for a number of years now due to the presence of Finback Brewery.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
xxxp, definitely. truly new units are bigger (people want more space), and that means not only are there less of them being built, but they "have" to be more expensive to pencil out (which raises rents). at the same time as being bigger, new units also have fewer bedrooms per sq ft (are you a family? sorry!), which also places pressure on rentals. and at the same time as that!, old units are being merged, which also raises average rents.
i mean the problem is not terrible relative to the west coast, but it's pretty bad!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
i haven't lived in new york for 15 years and whenever i daydream about moving back i realize i would have to learn entirely new neighborhoods from scratch. because the ones i lived in and hung out in are just totally out of my reach now. maybe it's always this way? i sort of mourn that. it's a life that has passed out of possibility.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
Forest Hills, where we lived for 8 years, doesn't seem like it ever goes completely crazy. It's one of the few places that just sort of stays middle to professional class, where the bargain is you get an affordable-by-city-standards life and an ok standard of living if you're just willing to tolerate being somewhere kinda boring.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
if i ever get priced out of astoria (has yet to happen, fingers crossed) deep queens is my destination (assuming it's still affordable). i love forest hills
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link
colonize staten island
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
I just find Forest Hills too boring compared my precious Woodside and Sunnyside. But this is talk for the Queens thread I guess.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
there's some nice places in that part of forest hills just north of metropolitan by eddie's sweet shop--not fh gardens, but a few streets of single families with decent yards in nice condition. still a million bucks a pop.
the glendale thing is like... ridgewood is as non-urban as we're willing to go while paying these wild prices. next step is probably a co-op in jackson heights or out of nyc entirely.
― adam, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
compared to Forest Hills, which is so much further out, the stretch of Sunnyside-Woodside-Jackson Heights just has so much more to offer, food-wise at least. I guess that's how I judge everything.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
It's def more boring foodwise. No question. Our group of friends there had a running joke about restaurants being "Forest Hills Good" vs actually good.
That said, when we left a couple of years ago there was a sort of spillover from Flushing starting to happen and we had gotten a few legit dumpling and noodle shops and such.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
Jersey City Heights used to be a place to escape to but not sure if it's still as affordable as it used to be vs. deeper into BK/Queens etc.
― Evan, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:32 (two years ago) link
― adam, Tuesday, March 22, 2022 1:25 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I def feel like there's a point at which you're just kind of in the suburbs anyway and might as well be in the suburbs. I guess parts of glendale are walkable to interesting parts of ridgewood at least, but transit access is generally not great and I don't find the area too charming. The areas I really don't get are the ones further out in Queens that don't even really have subways, they just kind of feel like shitty overpriced suburbs.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
at least they're note technically long island! I have friends in douglaston.
Jersey City is beyond insane now. Sister's lived at Grove st stop for 20+ years and has to get out. It's like Brooklyn and Hoboken on steroids.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
Yeah, we lived by the Grove stop years ago (circa 2003-2008). I went back recently to meet with friends for drinks, and that exactly. It was like the explosive development of Williamsburg with a vibe closer to Hoboken. I have to assume JC Heights got substantially more expensive as a result of the spillover. Back then we had a handful of friends who all moved to the Heights when it was cheap (I want to say you could get a good house for like $250-300k?). Good on them.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
the 7 train is the undisputed best train in terms of good food availability, any of those neighborhoods are your best bet for livable NYC neighborhoods now imo.
ridgewood is boring but we have a nice community here of fellow yupster parents.
the deep queens no-train hoods are full of weird and fascinating stuff. douglaston is nice, love alley pond park. bayside is super nice, lots of great food along bell blvd, plus there's a LIRR stop. floral park has mumbai xpress, home of the best grilled cheese sandwich in nyc.
― adam, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
So that's the thing, Grove St JC is definitely getting a Williamsburg effect happening, but the vibe is way less sports bar than Hoboken for sure. It's the epicenter of that development/transformation so it is going to have prices that reflect that. JC heights on the other hand has been another story, but I haven't checked prices in the last year or so.
― Evan, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 20:24 (two years ago) link
I've lived in Forest Hills, Bayside and Astoria as well as LI and Astoria was actually my least favorite in many ways. Doubt if I could afford any of those spots now. When I lived in Forest Hills we actually walked to Jackson Heights for dinner a bunch of times. It's not exactly a desert.
Qnz east of Flushing has a suburban character to an extent but it's not really the burbs and it's really a far cry from much of LOng Island in terms of diversity or inclusivit. Even neighborhoods like Douglaston that feel a little Trumpy. That's a pretty big deal, honestly. There are lots of places in LI where i really feel like an alien as a brown queer person.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
Does anyone else consider moving uptown/the Bronx? I think I only pop up here to say "I live in the Bronx" every few months, but it's nice. It's affordable. I can see midtown (in the winter), I'm right on the Botanical Gardens, a couple blocks from the subway, in an art deco building with a sunken living room. There's so much Brooklyn/Queens talk in this thread, but irl I know at least a decent group of people who have migrated to upper Manhattan or the Bronx and left the western tip of Long Island behind.
But... I will probably never go to Brooklyn again in my life.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
I think maybe the Bronx is the last place a regular person could buy an apartment in New York? On a subway line? For less than 250k?
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link
just in case i haven't said this recently: my wife & I rent a two bedroom/2 bath apartment in clinton hill. it's a nice apartment with a lot of sun and lots of space, closets etc. if we were not rent stabilized we could not afford it at all. the other unit on our floor rents for more than double what we pay. (our rent is affordable but not cheap cheap)
― ian, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
Yeah I took over my dad's rent stabilized lease in Morningside Heights when he died and there's no way I could afford it otherwise. I'd probably be in Riverdale if i didn't have a rent stabilized lease just b/c it's one of the few places I could still afford (last time i checked, maybe not anymore lol)
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link
I don't know about the bronx being the only place, I'm sure there are deals in Corona and Elmhurst?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
Corona does seem like it would be an awesome place to live. No idea if affordable or not.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
Corona did not seem as cheap as I expected when I researched it a few years ago, although certainly cheap by NYC standards. Def seems like a nice place to live with Flushing Meadows park so close.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
― chinavision!, Tuesday, March 22, 2022 4:21 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
You can get coops for this (studios or MAYBE 1BRs) in parts of queens, but most likely in a coop so you have to factor in the high monthly maint fees.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
I used to live in riverdale. Nice, quiet, cheap, but very limited nightlife / walkability and a lonnnnnnng ride to midtown.
― calstars, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 22:11 (two years ago) link
oh I'm in a coop, but the maintenance is cheap (mortgage + maintenance is less than rent in this neighborhood). from what I've seen, similar units in parts of queens (1 bedroom) are in fact much much smaller, due to the proliferation of post-war construction. pre-war (1930s in this case) seems to allot much more space for a foyer, dining area, etc., plus 'top floor, city view, on the park, 2 blocks from the subway' would I think increase the price somewhat more in other boroughs.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link
I will probably never go to Brooklyn again in my life.
― chinavision!
Yeah I'm at a similar stage of life
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
tempted to post this on the queens thread instead but it follows up from this...had a great Queens weekend (except for some fussiness at times from the 5 year old) which involved going to Maspeth on saturday afternoon for a friend's art opening. There's a super cool art gallery called Mrs https://www.mrsgallery.com/ in the middle of residential Maspeth. Not anywhere near a train. We parked down the street and immediately found ourselves across from an amazing Polish market that had hot dishes, tons of in-house sausages and pickles and all kinds of products. There's also a few excellent peruvian spots so we picked up some ceviche for dinner. This polish market is an 11 minute drive from my place in Woodside.
And sunday got food from the AMAZING Bolivian Llama Party in sunnyside. Also just learned about a sunday only nexican restaurant that takes place in somebody's backyard a few blocks from my house.
So yeah, Queens isn't dead at least.
― dan selzer, Monday, 28 March 2022 13:46 (two years ago) link
Sounds fun. I always wonder about little places like that (the gallery etc) that pop up in the middle of those residential queens areas that are kind of middle class and don't have tons of commercial space nearby, like will they survive? It's hard for me to imagine Maspeth/Glendale/Fresh Pond/Middle Village being "the next Ridgewood" because they are already not all that cheap and don't seem like they offer a lot of spaces for the kinds of businesses the ridgewick crowd would want.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 28 March 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link
we had a good queens weekend too!
we went to the queens theatre (next to the museum) to get the 4-year-old some culture, ie a lightly psychedelic fiberoptic-suited tortoise and the hare performance, then ran around the park for a while. the weekend flushing meadows volleyball and cookout scene was unaffected by the unseasonable weather. then we got Perfectly Fine Italian Food from a the Perfectly Fine Italian Place around the corner from us.
those polish markets are so good at steam table food, there's one by me (hetman deli) with unbelievably large and good cutlets and a pungent carrot salad that i eat by the pint.
bolivian llama party rules, i haven't been to the sunnyside one (which took over from another good bolivian spot) but the one that was in the columbus circle subway station was great.
― adam, Monday, 28 March 2022 14:03 (two years ago) link
i live half a block from fresh pond and the yupster stuff has made it as far as forest ave, two blocks east of here. there's one evil real estate developer who's made it his mission to bring the washed concrete and houseplant aesthetic to ridgewood and he's slowly winning.
plus, i mean, i'm here and i'm definitely a middle class boho dickhead.
― adam, Monday, 28 March 2022 14:05 (two years ago) link
I feel like, for a lot of people, the coronavirus / WFH has made the boroughs more distinct and cut off. I live in Brooklyn, and have been to Manhattan twice in the past two years. Once for a doctor's appointment, once to take my kid to the Natural History museum.
― paulhw, Monday, 28 March 2022 14:36 (two years ago) link
The gallery's been there for a while. They own the building and live upstairs, and make art there as well. I'm sure if they were just renting and expecting to make a living as a gallery in a neighborhood like that it wouldn't be so easy. It's very nice though and my friend Rose's show is fantastic in any case.
Anyway the reason none of those neighborhoods will ever be the net ridgewood is because they don't have subway access. That's always been key. And there's always been outliers. I don't know, I suppose if an art community can grow in Red Hook it can happen anywhere, but they had cheap spaces, and the waterfront vibe, for a long time.
There's actually tons of industrial space in woodside. When I moved here 15 years ago I thought it'd be great to get space and thought it'd be affordable but it wasn't...every HVAC, car repair, printer etc that wanted industrial space close to manhattan and on a bunch of highways knew this was a good spot and it was priced accordingly. But maybe due to pandemic or other forces...there's TONS of empty spaces, which I'm sure people will sit on forever. It sucks, walking by all these rent signs on big industrial spaces. Could be so much cool light industry here. Bring us an Industry City!
Of course there's that weird thing in sunnyside now where the evil guy from Uber started a chain of ghost kitchen buildings, which is a good idea.
― dan selzer, Monday, 28 March 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
Nice accounts, y'all! I was actually enjoying a sunny Queens Saturday the previous weekend - took the bus to Maspeth (by which means it's a very short jaunt from Bushwick), and hiked from there to Elmhurst, Corona and Jackson Heights, plus a sunset stop in Sunnyside. The actual premise was knocking incredibly minor buildings off my architecture to-do list, but it was really just an excuse to be out pounding the pavement and taking in the neighborhoods. Beautiful time all throughout, people out enjoying the weather, street market on Junction Boulevard thronging with activity, etc.
Dan, where'd you get the ceviche? That would be a selling point for my partner to join me next time going over there.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 March 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link
Mama Pio in Maspeth. Really nice little place. I wonder about the history of peruvian restaurants in NYC. It seems like there's dozens that are basically knock-offs of Pio Pio, who's main location in Jackson Heights is like a football field of families having feasts. I've gotten that same kind of peruvian ceviche at these places, with the leche de tigre and the sweet potato and big hominy and crunchy corn and onions and I really can't get enough of it. Plus the rotisserie chicken at these places is simply the best. I remember reading that Pio Pio marinated theirs in beer and tamarind. There's a place in sunnyside that used to be called Pio Riko and is now just Riko and it's fine but nowhere near as good as Pio Pio. This Mama Pio is maybe as good or better than Pio Pio.
My funny Pio Pio story is the first time we went I didnt know what to get and I ordered the Matador Combo thinking, well, that seems kinda expensive at 28 dollars but a combo seems like a good way to go. Then they brought out the food and I realized it was like for an entire family. A half chicken. A giant plate of tostones. Rice and Beans. Salchipapas (the french fries and hot dog combo), an avocado salad etc etc.
― dan selzer, Monday, 28 March 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link
That sounds delicious, thank you dan!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 March 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
Lol at Pio Pio ordering snafu.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 15:35 (two years ago) link
I just found a picture of the matador combo. Imagine me at a small table with my then girlfriend, who ordered a fried cevice (jalea) and I get this:
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/10/21/30/95/matador-combo.jpg
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
And that's 42 dollars now.
When I went the first time about 15 years ago it was 28.
Cheap at any price.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
This doesn't seem good in the long-term: "A Casino Atop Saks? Lobbyists Push for Manhattan Gambling Site"
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 March 2022 05:26 (two years ago) link
The pio pio copy in Forest Hills/Kew Gardens was called Tu Casa and it was solid, at times even amazingly good although a bit inconsistent. We brought home a tub of their green sauce last time we went because we miss it so much.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 31 March 2022 12:28 (two years ago) link
yeah, had some leftover Mama Pio green sauce this morning on my leftover pupusa from El Comal in Jamiaca which my wife got because she was on Jury Duty. Sorry really should move this discussion back to the queens thread! Don't know if it's true with all Salvadoran tamales, but this place has tamales that make all mexican tamales taste so dry.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:45 (two years ago) link
TS: C Town vs Key Food
― calstars, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:33 (two years ago) link
Don’t think I mentioned that my Mi Tierra value card also works at Food Town, but maybe not SuperFresh.
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link
Big fan of See Food
― calstars, Friday, 1 April 2022 22:56 (two years ago) link
C town
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 2 April 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
the answer is food bazaar
― 龜, Saturday, 2 April 2022 02:21 (two years ago) link
The new mega tall residential blade runner skyscraper in downtown Bk is next door to Juniors on Flatbush, which looks like it hasn’t been renovated since 1982. A strange pair
― calstars, Saturday, 9 April 2022 01:38 (two years ago) link
Is everyone safe? [shootings (confirmed) + bomb (hearsay on my end) in 36th st subway Sunny P]
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 13:47 (two years ago) link
Ugh. Just read about, not affected myself.
― Anita Quatloos (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 13:51 (two years ago) link
Fuck, scary.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 14:03 (two years ago) link
Heard someone who was on the train where the shooting happened on Brian Lehrer saying the shooting was on the N train before it pulled into the 36th St station. People were trying to get out of the car where the shooting was happening into another car while the train was in motion. There was also a fire on the car with a lot of smoke.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 14:15 (two years ago) link
Al Jazeera just interviewing random people on the street who never went into the station, great journalism guys.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
Some video of the train pulling into the station and people fleeing the train:
Very dramatic video from the incident as the subway arrived at 36th St Sunset Park in Brooklyn. #brooklyn #shooting #nyc pic.twitter.com/5cOdeYPIb1— Kristoffer Kumm (@Kristofferkumm) April 12, 2022
― o. nate, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
Fucking hell
― scientific method man (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
Everyone I know of is okay so far. My roommate does take that train around that time but she checked in already. I used to take it every day to get to work so this seems especially weird to me right now.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link
yikes that vid is hard to watch, with the wounded staggering out of the train
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
hoping everyone and their loved ones are safe
Safe here. It’s my good friend’s stop and he is ok too but I was panicked for a minute there
― ian, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link
Same exact thing for me. Giving me a bit of a queasy feeling.
― Anita Quatloos (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
if only we hadn't defunded the police ;_;
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 01:51 (two years ago) link
looks like they arrested the suspect
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 13 April 2022 18:13 (two years ago) link
Hiding out in …the east village?
― calstars, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
"mumbling and saying shit about the FBI"https://www.instagram.com/p/CcTQGp5p5mL/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, 16 April 2022 01:54 (two years ago) link
Like you would know
― calstars, Saturday, 16 April 2022 01:55 (two years ago) link
Do you feel abandoned calstars? The trolling was sort of funny but you seem deeply angry that I left the city. My wife is still there every day though. In fact she was a couple blocks from where the guy was caught when he was caught.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 16 April 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
Isn’t there a suburbs thread you can post in something You ran away and you don’t live here anymore so
― calstars, Saturday, 16 April 2022 03:15 (two years ago) link
drunk posting is always a bad idea if you're a mean drunk
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 16 April 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
is this part of the vibe shift?
! @NYCMayor’s job approval rating is at 29%. Many other findings pointing to widespread pessimism in NYC from this exclusive @NY1 @SienaResearch poll: https://t.co/DFTTohpXJF— Emily Ngo (@emilyngo) June 7, 2022
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
adams is a disaster waiting to happen― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, February 11, 2022 10:52 PM (four months ago)
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 06:31 (one year ago) link
https://ouf.osc.state.ny.us/ouf/?wicket-crypt=4nEWwOiKc5w
^NY heads check and see if u have funds for grabs on here. More than one person in my phone book is on here and one buddy of mine has a 4-digit payment that they just claimed
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
FYI, nearly every state has a similar agency responsible for abandoned funds so those outside NY should also check with their state.
― doomposting is the new composting (PBKR), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
wow, it includes unused gift cards (wife has some) that's wild
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
Banks and insurers are obligated under NY law to hold unclaimed property (including $, uncashed checks, etc.) for certain periods of time, after which they are required to turn it over to the NYS Comptroller, which is required to attempt to notify payees/owners of the funds it holds, but after a period of time gets to keep the unclaimed funds.
― doomposting is the new composting (PBKR), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
I found my dad 15 bucks
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52263519076_0d204ba771_4k.jpg
I've been here for a week and I'm 100% in support of the locals that want to burn these sheds down.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 4 August 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
they're ugly and also not very fun to sit in but better the sheds than parking spots
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 4 August 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
Cool it turbo tax
― calstars, Thursday, 4 August 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 August 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link
anyone living in ny10 have strong opinions about the primary? leaning towards mondaire jones, who seems like a good rep, but if there's someone i should vote for to block natsec darling dan goldman, that would be great.
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
Niou or Rivera and go with god
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
They’re prob gonna split the youth vote tbh
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
After the NY1 debate two thumbs up for Niou. There's something so cynical about Rivera's type of "I took money from real estate and crypto interests so now I'm a practical-" progressivism. Jones seems like a good rep but he's just not familiar enough with the district. Goldman is a ghoul.
― bad duck artist, Thursday, 11 August 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
I don't live in the 10 but would vote Yuh-Line happily.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 11 August 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
She was running a community support program out of her office all during COVID and out in the streets with her staff going to find out what people needed. She reps for local small businesses, unabashedly loves NYC culture and food, and has the most progressive politics in the race as I understand it.
Mondaire absolutely got done dirty by Sean Patrick Maloney in being pushed out of the new district but I think he could have stayed and fought--like 70% of the new district mapped onto his old one! He got bullied, which was bad, and he went straight into the city to opportunistically bully someone else out of their seat and I think it stinks.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 11 August 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
It just lacks imagination, among other criticisms. No one is owed a job in politics, y'know? If he found himself out-maneuvered, even thought it was unethical and shitty for a party official like SPM to bully his own fellow party member, he could have become an advocate for party reforms, or had a strategic plan for where to bolster the system for future Dem and progressive wins.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 11 August 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
dimes sq is on google maps I hate it here pic.twitter.com/lwLk31c5EY— 🕳 (@kimuong_) August 23, 2022
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 August 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
?
― calstars, Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
Dimes is a really trendy restaurant on Canal St that has been the center of a "community" or something for years now and at some point some journalists/tweeters started calling the area "dimes square". This is a sign that it is sticking.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
it is also a pun based on times sq (obv) and a bunch of annoying people who consider themselves dimes (10s out of 10)
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 August 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
Huh, I would've guessed it was a drug-dealing reference (dime bags), but I guess that probably dates me quite a bit. The LES hasn't been like that in many years.
― o. nate, Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
i went to dimes once in 2014. isn't it like 4 tables? how can there possibly be a scene there?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
This "scene" consists of about a half dozen people, who all guest on each other's podcasts. But because it's New York, each of these assholes knows at least 50 reporters desperate for something to write about and turn into a thing, so...
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 25 August 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
sounds annoying
― calstars, Thursday, 25 August 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
who all guest on each other's podcasts
Podcasts? I love podcasts!
*quick googling*
Oh, it's Red Scare.
― peace, man, Thursday, 25 August 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
I’d argue as dumb as the idea of it being a scene is, especially dumb tweets comparing it to Williamsburg in the late 90s but with no music scene or whatever, it is true that that area of town, which used to just part of Chinatown I guess, has been filled with galleries and boutiques and hip eateries or whatever so of course it needs a name other than “the part of Chinatown where white people hang out”.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
Whinatown
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 25 August 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
Honky Kong
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 25 August 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
― Josefa, Friday, 26 August 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
Everything you wanted to know about Dimes Square but were afraid to ask...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-dimes-square-became-the-new-york-neighborhood-we-love-to-hate?fbclid=IwAR0e6ZJY8WE0Z4n2h-CjmPQ0z8C3RwD3jkPWBCeLYmw3c3kavZptiJeoDQ0
― dan selzer, Saturday, 27 August 2022 04:50 (one year ago) link
jesus christ
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 27 August 2022 08:55 (one year ago) link
FFS. Lol at "Honky Kong" though!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 27 August 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.thecut.com/2022/08/cast-the-come-up-dimes-square-reality-series.html
― dan selzer, Sunday, 4 September 2022 02:26 (one year ago) link
ugh no
― calstars, Sunday, 4 September 2022 02:46 (one year ago) link
mr choppy getting twitchy
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 September 2022 09:39 (one year ago) link
http://www.willyspiller.com/hell-on-wheels
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
ah, the good old days
― calstars, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
some great NYC pics in the Street Life section too
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
Huh, I would've guessed it was a drug-dealing reference (dime bags), but I guess that probably dates me quite a bit.
Yeah, this would've been a given the last time I left my house. I'm not going out until I get to make up my own neighborhoods and secure REBNY financing for NoDad: the Rollercoaster and West Malarkey: The FX Pedal.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
Not one of the Dimes Square people appears to be a Catholic who rejects Vatican II or has taught at Bari Weiss University.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
It's official: @EWRairport is not a New York City airport https://t.co/zqtS57J3Kg— Jason Rabinowitz (@AirlineFlyer) September 7, 2022
― fpsa, Friday, 9 September 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
Weird that Lufthansa group had same fares for EWR and other NYC airports up till now. In my experience, same international flight out of JFK is always much cheaper than EWR.
― o. nate, Friday, 9 September 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
Just had a hot dog at Greys papaya ($3.21) and now having a beer on the UWS and listening to miles. It just stopped raining. It’s a ny afternoon
― calstars, Monday, 24 October 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 October 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
Went to the hungarian bakery this weekend so that’s pretty dope.
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 24 October 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
All Hungarian people need to eat
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 24 October 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
y'all making me nostalgic
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-states/new-york/new-york/times-square.html
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
went to economy candy and blew sixty bucks on halloween candy
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 04:30 (one year ago) link
Going back to the US for the holidays (CT) and going into NYC for one day to run some errands and have Malaysian food. That’s it.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 10:01 (one year ago) link
Money spent on candy is notblown - we all need to to eat
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 27 October 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
feel like this hochul election is gonna be like the new jersey 2021 election with unexpectedly tight polls but a comfortable 4-5% victory
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 October 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
Worth noting that this could be one of the worst cities in the world for Malaysian food. There's an OK place in Sunset Park. And one in Queens. But NY is terrible with SE Asian food. Sydney, NY is not.
― paulhw, Friday, 28 October 2022 00:31 (one year ago) link
not...that...surprising...considering...the proximity...of Malaysia to Sydney...and the relatively...small population... of Malaysians?
― calstars, Friday, 28 October 2022 00:35 (one year ago) link
Y'all got hot dogs in Sydney?
no one said it was surprising
― mookieproof, Friday, 28 October 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
xps Are you talking about the Hungarian Pastry Shop across from the cathedral? I live near there. There's a great Malaysian restaurant nearby, in Manhattan Valley. It's the only place I ever order from around here pretty much. But it's more of a neighborhood-y takeout spot than a destination for authentic Malaysian food. There was also an amazing Vietnamese place down the street from the Hungarian in the 90's.
― "H to the Izzo" means "I love you" (Deflatormouse), Friday, 28 October 2022 01:29 (one year ago) link
Last time I went to that particular place my impression was the food was actually not very good it's more about the old-timey hang or whatever.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 01:46 (one year ago) link
The pastries were good
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 28 October 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
well what did you order? xp
― "H to the Izzo" means "I love you" (Deflatormouse), Friday, 28 October 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
I used to go to the Hungarian a lot with my dad when he was still alive, but I've only been once or twice since he passed away. I was fond of their Hungarian coffee (Americano with almond extract, whipped cream and cinnamon- we were all young once).
― "H to the Izzo" means "I love you" (Deflatormouse), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link
Can't even remember what I ordered, sorry.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:06 (one year ago) link
Also James Redd and the Blecchs you should call me if you're in my hood
― "H to the Izzo" means "I love you" (Deflatormouse), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
If I could choose 5 or 6 ilxors to hang with irl my answer would depend entirely on how many members there are of the Blecchs
― "H to the Izzo" means "I love you" (Deflatormouse), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:20 (one year ago) link
There's a good Malaysian place in Hoboken.
― o. nate, Friday, 28 October 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
i guess this malaysian place didn't make it through covid. it was good! https://www.yelp.com/biz/asian-spicy-curry-pop-up-new-york
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 October 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
I’ve had Malaysian food I liked in queens in elmhust but don’t know what to compare it to. Not sure about saying southeast Asian food is bad here when insanely great Thai food is plentiful in Woodside/Elmhurst.
― dan selzer, Friday, 28 October 2022 10:42 (one year ago) link
A lot of bus drivers, I don’t think they have much experience. They pump the brakes and gas like it’s gran turismo V
― calstars, Friday, 28 October 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
better double check its a MTA employeehttps://gothamist.com/news/nypd-man-with-a-bb-gun-hijacked-and-crashed-an-mta-bus-in-queens
― mizzell, Friday, 28 October 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
Hochul gets so few comments on her Facebook posts - no one cares
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
I feel like I should be friends irl with James and brad, y’all want to get a drink sometime or
― calstars, Monday, 28 November 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
Man alive is not invited
― calstars, Monday, 28 November 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
Stomp will be stomping its last stomp in January. It had a pretty amazing and frankly inexplicable run in the East Village beginning all the way back in February 1994 (before I was even a twinkle in NYC's eye).
― Josefa, Thursday, 8 December 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
meanwhile, the blue men are still a'blueing
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 December 2022 04:17 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQwcqwHvrus
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 December 2022 04:29 (one year ago) link
Did you ever meet that one guy who played bass with them?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/how-eric-adams-started-mentoring-a-con-man/amp
cool guy with cool friends
― k3vin k., Sunday, 15 January 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
Federal prosecutors would later refer to Belmonte as “a businessman.
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 15 January 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
non-death info for NYers with kids:https://www.guggenheim.org/event/guggteens-night-at-the-museum
All high school students are welcome to the Guggenheim Museum for GuggTeens Night at the Museum on Friday, January 20, 2023, at 5 pm! This event is free; MetroCards and snacks will be provided. Be sure to RSVP and you will also be entered into the raffle to win prizes, such as art supplies, exhibition catalogues, and museum store giftcards. Come on your own or bring your friends!Inspired by the exhibition Nick Cave: Forothermore, this evening’s programming will include art-making, film screenings, exploring the galleries, and more! The title of the exhibition, Forothermore, is a new word that reflects the artist Nick Cave’s lifelong commitment to creating space for those who feel marginalized by dominant society and culture—especially working-class communities and queer people of color. GuggTeens Night at the Museum will provide all participants with textiles to repurpose into art with a message, and advocate for those seen as the other.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 January 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
Do high schoolers of today like Nick Cave, or even know who he is?
― nickn, Monday, 16 January 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
I think you may be unclear as to which Nick Cave we're talking about herehttps://www.artnet.com/artists/nick-cave/
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 January 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
Guy from Wings of Desire, right?
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 January 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
Sorry, terrible joke even by my low standards.
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 January 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link
GuggTeens??
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Monday, 16 January 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
Xpost wrong dude thread
― calstars, Monday, 16 January 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
hello fellow guggteens
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 January 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
Hmm
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 January 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
Two things I've noticed lately in the city: (1) since the pandemic, every fucking thing requires advance purchase of timed tickets, which is annoying, and (2) places are increasingly not letting you use their bathrooms, including the once reliable Starbucks
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 16 January 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
Wah lol
― calstars, Monday, 16 January 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
the lack of accessible public restrooms in nyc is genuinely worth complaining about, especially if you've got a GI issue or a kid or an old person or just need to piss!
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 January 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
xp to forksWho knew? (everybody but me, apparently)
― nickn, Monday, 16 January 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link
If you gotta go, it’s alright
― calstars, Monday, 16 January 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
it's cool, now you get to check out that Nick Cave's work! He's fuckin awesome!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PDOpOHkDk8
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 January 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
Preferable to the artist version of Warren Ellis that's for sure.
― Evan, Monday, 16 January 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
https://linktr.ee/got2gonyc
― 龜, Monday, 16 January 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
guggteens
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 January 2023 21:47 (one year ago) link
It was a miracle we got out of there alive
― calstars, Monday, 16 January 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
Is the NYC Ballet dead? Has the ABT overtaken it?
― youn, Monday, 16 January 2023 23:24 (one year ago) link
Nick Cave was exactly what we showed up before open to see only to realize it's all timed now.
That said, we wound up at Theaster Gates at New Museum which was fucking incredible. And also ate some very good tamales.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 16 January 2023 23:28 (one year ago) link
i need to see that theaster gates show
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 02:04 (one year ago) link
co-sign the exhibit at the new museum, it was excellent. on saturdays, there’s an organ performance, which was really moving
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 03:35 (one year ago) link
yeah I was sad I didn't get to see the organ performance. I walked in and saw that organ and the seven fucking leslie speakers on the wall and went up to the guard and was like "please tell me someone plays this"
The film was incredible.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 04:17 (one year ago) link
"If we can talk about erectile dysfunction but not clitoral stimulation, then something is wrong," @NYCMayor says.— Annie McDonough (@Annie_McDonough) January 17, 2023
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 18:25 (one year ago) link
beg your pardon
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
stopped clock moment
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
.
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
what
― calstars, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
That whole thread is pretty great; Adams’ randomly firing synapses spat out some real damonds.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:34 (one year ago) link
he is extremely trumplike in many waysprobably (for better and worse) the least effective/politically engaged mayor i've seen in 20+ years here
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
The Sammy's Halal at madison sq has replaced the homemade garlic/cilantro/secret ingredients green sauce with fucking bottle mexican habenero hot sauce. New York City is official dead. To me at least.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:43 (one year ago) link
Is the NYC Ballet dead? Has the ABT overtaken it?― youn, Monday, January 16, 2023
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
https://www.tellmebest.com/chase-bank-shutting-down-atms/
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 January 2023 13:09 (one year ago) link
Hmm at that url.
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 January 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.curbed.com/2023/01/nyc-real-estate-covid-more-apartments-higher-rent.html
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 27 January 2023 22:53 (one year ago) link
good article but it feels like it wants another month’s worth of reporting on it
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 27 January 2023 23:44 (one year ago) link
that's right.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 January 2023 05:23 (one year ago) link
it's an issue in general with New York Mag verticals reporting; you get often a sense that the budget cuts out and the piece is due, full stop.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 January 2023 05:24 (one year ago) link
Yeah 100% agree, conclusion is kind of incomplete/unsatisfying
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 28 January 2023 05:25 (one year ago) link
when your last graf begins “Look, maybe all my suspicions are baseless” it’s probably a sign
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 28 January 2023 10:59 (one year ago) link
Y'all. I sometimes have to be in LIC right at the 21st St-Queensbridge stop on the F train. There's a halal cart right across the intersection on 21st Street, and it was PHENOMENAL. The rice was spiced with actual spices! The meat was, like, actually barbecued! I don't know what to say. Get the mixed platter. Get the felafel too. And it was only $8 ($9 with felafel). Which is two bucks cheaper than the brick and mortar place across the street, which is also WORSE.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
A (badass) Latina construction worker was in front of me, and an adorable skateboarding teen behind me recommended the green sauce if I wanted just a little spice (not the red sauce, on my life, I know better). NYC: We will feed you.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
this is important reporting, thank you
i went to the former eisenberg's for lunch the other day, now known as S&P and run by the court street grocers people. in general i disdain fancy sandwiches but court street is very good and so is S&P! had a reasonably-sized (ie consumable by one person for lunch) pastrami sandwich and an egg cream. the interior is almost entirely preserved from the eisenberg's days and the menu is largely unreconstructed midcentury lunch counter fare--health salad, cream cheese and olive sandwiches (also very good).
anyway it feels like a recognition of changing tastes (vis a vis sourcing and thoughtful preparation) and neighborhood realities but also like a work of historical preservation, both aesthetic and culinary. it was packed so i hope its success sparks a trend.
― adam, Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
I need try S+P, reviews have been glowing
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
Fly @Eagles Fly! We’re going Green and White in honor of the Eagles NFC Championship Victory. pic.twitter.com/RNiwbCIkt7— Empire State Building (@EmpireStateBldg) January 29, 2023
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 January 2023 03:14 (one year ago) link
i went to the former eisenberg's for lunch the other day, now known as S&P and run by the court street grocers people. in general i disdain fancy sandwiches but court street is very good and so is S&P! had a reasonably-sized (ie consumable by one person for lunch) pastrami sandwich
I had that sandwich, and the tuna melt too, both were fine, but neither good enough for me to make a point of going back.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 30 January 2023 03:19 (one year ago) link
yeah I tried reading that curbed article but gave up after about 1000 words into the USPS digression, just bad editing
― k3vin k., Monday, 30 January 2023 03:42 (one year ago) link
dropped the kid off to go to "meet the breeds" at javits center with aunt, leaving wife and myself time to kill/enjoy by ourselves and after much debate about where to eat and trying to find somewhere open early enough that had outdoor seating I realized I didn't have to go far. We went to Kossars right below hudson yards and got bialys and bagels, then we went to Daily Provisions and got the crullers, which, if you haven't had a daily provision cruller, you have no idea just how good something can taste. Then we got lunch at Mercardo Little Spain, feeling glad to give my money to Jose Andres for all his good, rather than Eataly and Batalli.
Point is? Kossar bialy breakfast sandwich, daily provision crullers, new york is most certainly not dead. If you can afford it.
What is dead is the giant suicide machine in the center of hudson yards.
― dan selzer, Monday, 30 January 2023 04:14 (one year ago) link
Assuming you’re asking for real, that is a much discussed and much hated art piece that did in fact become something of a suicide machine.
It is also a good visual symbol of the vortex of awfulness that is Hudson Yards. I have a relative who lives in one of those new buildings - they won a rent lottery. The building is massive and had a basketball court and an arcade and a gym and various other amenities and feels sort of like a luxury dorm/student center. The whole neighborhood feels like a mall and then there’s an actual mall within the mall.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 30 January 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link
Oh sorry I misread that as “what is the deal with” not “what is dead”
Dan that sounds like a great day. I’m saving Kossars on my map, I love me a bialy
― calstars, Monday, 30 January 2023 13:24 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I know all about the suicide schwarma. What a sign of late-capitalism or whatever. My wife works in museum education and we talk about access issues a lot as well and she was like, any consultant could've said "this is a bad idea!"
The fact that it stands there like that now, is just embarrassing. At a certain point the bottom was open so you can walk inside it, but you can't walk up it now. My suggestion? Make it a home for art installations. Let artists put sculptures all over it or something.
We checked out all the restaurants in the mall there and the area and they all look really nice and somewhat hip, but on closer inspection, the menus were really boring. Kinda figure the types of wealthy people flocking to live in hudson yards, which is now definitely a community with things like drug stars, I imagine they're kind of on the basic side. Rich and basic. Last time I was in hudson yards there wasn't much residential action going on.
Little Spain was great though. They have these empenadas which are like big flat spanish pies, that are delicious.
One good thing about hudson yards and it's mall? Plentiful and easily accessible clean bathrooms.
― dan selzer, Monday, 30 January 2023 14:32 (one year ago) link
Have to remember this last the next time I take a bike up to get the 7 train.drug starsSo NYC is not dead!
― The Big O RLY (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 January 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link
ha oops. drug stores obv.
― dan selzer, Monday, 30 January 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
Make it a home for art installations. Let artists put sculptures all over it or something.
Or maybe they could plant with all kinds of exotic trees and plants - kind of a hanging garden.
― o. nate, Monday, 30 January 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
That'd be cool. It's pretty sterile around there.
― dan selzer, Monday, 30 January 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link
"what was this place daddy"
daddy 3000 years into the future: "it was a place of worship, little jimmy"
"what did they worship?"
"shopping, little jimmy"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 30 January 2023 14:52 (one year ago) link
I know I’m in the minority but I love the mall there, getting lost and going up and down escalators and down the long shiny hallways. I guess I could take or leave the Schwarma. to me it looks like a transformer ready to unfurl into a giant robot and wreak havoc on the buildings
― calstars, Monday, 30 January 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
i started going to kossar's on delancey back when it was staffed by a bunch of surly dudes, then they got expansion brained and are following the russ and daughters playbook. every time i've walked by the delancey location post-reno it's been mobbed. there is a lot of money pouring into the les too, every building it seems has massive scaffolding on it right now. i usually just go to manousheh's instead, across from the tj's.
― 龜, Monday, 30 January 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
I hate paying a premium for the "story" behind an eatery. No more meta-eateries.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 30 January 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
i dunno, those places are still tasty!
― dan selzer, Monday, 30 January 2023 20:58 (one year ago) link
sure, Russ and Daughters is v good, it's just expensive for what it is imo.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 30 January 2023 21:19 (one year ago) link
Fortunately Barney Greengrass still looks like it hasn't been remodeled since the 1980s.
― o. nate, Monday, 30 January 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/mysterious-pink-pigeon-rescued-from-madison-square-park
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 February 2023 07:37 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/lAxzv3N.jpgThese small metal canisters in grey were common on the sidewalks in the early 80s but I still don’t know what they are
― calstars, Monday, 3 April 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
Guessing drogas
Whippits my b
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 3 April 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
May also reflect a surge of popular interest in CO2 dragsters, which would surely please my high school shop teacher.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Monday, 3 April 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
How do I shot whippets
― calstars, Monday, 3 April 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
https://a-z-animals.com/media/Whippet-Canis-familiaris-standing-side-by-side-in-woods.jpg
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Monday, 3 April 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilqtuLj_DRM
― nickn, Monday, 3 April 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
Rupert Jee’s Hello Deli on W. 53rd St. is closing after 31 years. I never went there, and I’m not 100% convinced it’s a real place, but rip and thanks for the memories.
― Josefa, Sunday, 9 April 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
lol whippit canisters seem so benign when I see them on sidewalks as opposed to the orange syringe caps that I see much more often these days. (not in NYC, but that's probably true there too.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 9 April 2023 21:19 (one year ago) link
I remember empty crack vials all over my school playground (a small city park) uptown
― calstars, Sunday, 9 April 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link
I still smh at people wearing sandals
― calstars, Sunday, 7 May 2023 17:52 (eleven months ago) link
Anybody going to see the art ensemble of Chicago tonight in red hook?
― ian, Sunday, 7 May 2023 18:05 (eleven months ago) link
oh shit, who's in the Art Ensemble now? assuming Roscoe Mitchell is involved i really want to go.
xp i wear sandals at least 9 months a year! this winter was so mild that i never had to switch to shoes.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 7 May 2023 18:58 (eleven months ago) link
Roscoe, Don Moye, junius Paul, uhhh I forget who else. It’s like $65 :(
― ian, Sunday, 7 May 2023 19:09 (eleven months ago) link
yeah, that's a lot but not totally shocking. my sleep schedule might not allow it either. i usually need to sleep 14 hours on saturday since i work weird hours, and i went to see a friend's band last night. i'd love to see them, though. very tempted.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 7 May 2023 19:20 (eleven months ago) link
The Art Ensemble these days can often be more of a big band than an avant-garde theater troupe with horns. I saw them in 2017 and there were about nine people, including Joseph Jarman in his final public appearance. Lately they've been working with Moor Mother a lot, and this is part of the Bang On A Can no-longer-a-marathon festival so expect something special. Definitely worth checking out IMO.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 7 May 2023 19:32 (eleven months ago) link
this isn't happening for me :(i feel like a zombie already
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:33 (eleven months ago) link
Roscoe is out he has Covid. Shabaka Hutchings is subbing.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:38 (eleven months ago) link
This show ruled hard
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 8 May 2023 02:52 (eleven months ago) link
:(((((( classic regrets
― ian, Monday, 8 May 2023 12:20 (eleven months ago) link
Regrets but I wasn’t really going to get out anyway.
― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 May 2023 14:24 (eleven months ago) link
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland)
That's great to hear, but for some reason i thought you live in Maryland.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Monday, 8 May 2023 14:43 (eleven months ago) link
just came home from the doctor, someone singing 'what a wonderful world' over the distorted intercom at 79th st subway station. kinda like the cnn end of the world video, very creepy.
guy on the train asking for change, at first apologetically, became increasingly agitated and started yelling at everyone, calling them "soulless" if they wouldn't give a fucking dollar. right on.
felt like being in requiem for a dream.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 18 May 2023 18:34 (eleven months ago) link
Prince Harry multi hour adventure trying to get from the Zeigfeld to the UES Tuesday night was something...loved the part when his car got stuck behind a garbage truck on some side street
― calstars, Thursday, 18 May 2023 18:46 (eleven months ago) link
This show ruled hard― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland)That's great to hear, but for some reason i thought you live in Maryland.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:29 (eleven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/XkX2mAo.jpgLocal flora
― calstars, Friday, 19 May 2023 23:43 (eleven months ago) link
It is a damned shame that @NYCMayor continues to fail to pay our early childhood educators. It should be absolutely disqualifying for public office. It should be a tremendous scandal. pic.twitter.com/WFf6KskKes— Shay O'Reilly (@shaygabriel) May 29, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 29 May 2023 17:10 (ten months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/u5XNjsz.jpg
― ncxkd, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 18:35 (ten months ago) link
It’s like a tinted silent film
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 18:52 (ten months ago) link
greatest city in the world
New York City currently has the worst air quality of any city on the planet, and it's not really close. Statistics via @IQAir. pic.twitter.com/sUpoCJLUf1— New York Metro Weather (@nymetrowx) June 7, 2023
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 18:53 (ten months ago) link
pic.twitter.com/m9x5f9KOT4— Nick Newman (@Nick_Newman) June 7, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 18:54 (ten months ago) link
just signed a lease to move back to nyc from ca btw, perfect timing
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 18:55 (ten months ago) link
Check out this almost unbelievable time-lapse of wildfire smoke consuming the World Trade Center and the New York City skyline.Those vulnerable to poor air quality, including seniors and young children, should limit time outdoors if possible.More: https://t.co/ChRuWv7X6E pic.twitter.com/mtKtLun8lN— NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) June 7, 2023
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 18:59 (ten months ago) link
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:10 (ten months ago) link
REALLY bad out there
― ian, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:13 (ten months ago) link
saw someone smoking outside when i was coming home with groceries earlier. thought "damn dude, hardcore"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:17 (ten months ago) link
Saw some people just sitting outside talking and ASSUMED they might be smoking as well for the same reason.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:24 (ten months ago) link
What's the best forecasts?
We have a big open studio event planned for this saturday. Already about to push it back 2 weeks. Some people think this clears up by the weekend. Doesn't seem likely.
Looking forward to this being the new normal. Everyone goes back inside. COVID numbers go up.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 June 2023 15:17 (ten months ago) link
My feeling is that the weekend will be ok
― calstars, Thursday, 8 June 2023 15:27 (ten months ago) link
according to the aqi our gains are marginal today but it significantly helps that the sun is piercing the smoke and the air doesn’t have a nicotine stain-ish yellow cast
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 June 2023 17:08 (ten months ago) link
every time i post about this i’m like “everyone on the west coast has been experiencing this forever, idiot, welcome to reality” don’t worry
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 June 2023 17:15 (ten months ago) link
the sky is a normal color classic or dud???
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 June 2023 17:28 (ten months ago) link
classic, that sky was freaking me out yesterday
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 8 June 2023 17:34 (ten months ago) link
^Seconded
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 June 2023 17:43 (ten months ago) link
Searching for an old email this popped up in the search results, from 2005--
Free Party @ the Candy StoreThis Saturday (9/24) from 8pm till late127 Henry Street, Ground FloorBetween Pike (Allen st) and Rutgers (Essex st)Take the F train to East Broadway and walk one block downtown212 203-9585 if you have any questions
Expect wine & beer and great tunes� As well as many funky NYC people!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 26 June 2023 13:36 (ten months ago) link
apparently The Candy Store is now an art gallery called Situations.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 26 June 2023 13:38 (ten months ago) link
The load cars sound like they’re taking huge shits
― calstars, Saturday, 1 July 2023 21:16 (nine months ago) link
Bringing my teenage sons for a quick NYC visit on July 15-16 (passing through as part of a longer road trip). I have some thoughts about places to take them/things to do, but if you know of cool summer stuff going on lemme know. Also, for the one who's a vinyl collector and noise music fan, what are the best options for music stores these days?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 2 July 2023 11:43 (nine months ago) link
Attorneys General (David Grubbs, Alan Licht and Ian Williams from Battles) are playing P.I.T. in Williamsburg the night of the 15th. Mama Tried has a matinee that day with Wharton Tiers Ensemble, Lupo Citta (Chris Brokaw), and Rider/Horse. Both are no cover/pay what you will. P.I.T. is a book and record shop and fine for teens, and MT seems to be chill with parents having kids (shows are on a patio next to the BQE).
Great jazz show that day at Public Records: Irreversible Entanglements Speak Easy Vol 1, with Moor Mother, IE, David Murray and other people, but that's 21+.
― bulb after bulb, Sunday, 2 July 2023 14:02 (nine months ago) link
Cool, thx!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 2 July 2023 14:14 (nine months ago) link
I recommend a walk through Times Square at night
― calstars, Sunday, 2 July 2023 14:43 (nine months ago) link
If you'll be over in Bushwick, the Johnson location of Brooklyn Record Exchange is my favorite used vinyl spot in the city. (Material World, not far from there, might be stronger on noise.) But I wouldn't schlep over here if you weren't already doing some fun summer stuff in the nabe!
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 2 July 2023 14:54 (nine months ago) link
We'll definitely be in Times Square — we're going to see the Peter Pan Goes Wrong show — but they've seen it before. They were actually both born in NYC, but we moved away when they were 5 and 2 respectively, so I try to bring them back periodically so that they feel at least a little connected. Being New Yorkers by birth is a point of pride for both of them.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 2 July 2023 15:09 (nine months ago) link
if you guys are gonna be in brooklyn at all, the captured tracks store in greenpoint is prob my fav record store rn. i’m not a noise head but they have a lot of diff stuff there tho it’s not a huge place. it’s also a nice area to walk around in general. in manhattan it’s hard to go wrong w academy records i’d also do some snooping around city websites like summerstage or the city parks website, there’s often stuff happening even in smaller parks around the city. i.e. that weekend at a park in bed stuy there’s a free concert w/ noname & georgia anne muldrow. there might be something happening somewhere that is up their alley — there’s tons of places that do outdoor films, lincoln center etc — and a lot of that stuff is free
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 2 July 2023 15:30 (nine months ago) link
oh record runner is another good one in manhattan, it’s got a huge basement so it’s easy lose an hour in there flipping thru records
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 2 July 2023 15:39 (nine months ago) link
i heard there's a cool new art gallery called Situations.
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 2 July 2023 15:44 (nine months ago) link
sorry, Jordan S. is otm about free outdoor shows, and probably also Academy though Downtown Music Gallery is still a place that has noise records afaik.
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 2 July 2023 15:49 (nine months ago) link
yeah i’m not an expert on where to get noise records specifically… i basically only buy turn of the millennium rap and r&b records. but those places i mentioned are just good generalist shops
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 2 July 2023 15:58 (nine months ago) link
hey, i don't buy records at all really what do i know. the record collectors in my orbit never mention DMG, but Record Grouch and Academy (the one in Brooklyn) come up a lot.
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 2 July 2023 16:03 (nine months ago) link
but like i haven't been to Brooklyn since 2004.
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 2 July 2023 16:05 (nine months ago) link
i actually think all the corny tourist stuff in NYC is a lot more fun. Times Square was great when the Polynesian was still open, you could get blasted on rum and then go bowling at Bowlero with the theme lanes or go to the arcade, then play with toys at the Disney store at 1am. You should def hit up something like ZeroSpace, it used to be in Times Square but it looks like it's in Brooklyn now. You can go up to the top of the Empire State building reaaaaally late at night when it's deserted, i think the observation deck is open until 2am. Prob not cheap for 3 ppl but it's fun.
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 2 July 2023 16:14 (nine months ago) link
I want to go to the observation deck at Hudson yards, edge I think it’s called
― calstars, Sunday, 2 July 2023 16:46 (nine months ago) link
Oh, that could be fun. We did Empire State Bldg. on a previous visit.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 2 July 2023 17:00 (nine months ago) link
You should try and see shucked
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 2 July 2023 18:27 (nine months ago) link
I'd like to see that but I think the Peter Pan show is more up my kids' alley. More people getting hit on the head etc.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 2 July 2023 18:44 (nine months ago) link
Shucked has a lot of butt jokes
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 2 July 2023 19:25 (nine months ago) link
The captured tracks shop is currently flooded so is check before going. I haven’t been but Ergot Records looks like the best record store in Manhattan, or perhaps NYC, or maybe the world. Also check out Love Not Money. Anyway NY has an amazing amount of great record stores right now.
― dan selzer, Monday, 3 July 2023 11:24 (nine months ago) link
Tipsy, in the department of too many good options: Marcia Griffiths is also playing a free concert on the evening of the 15th in Prospect Park, with Brown Rice Family.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 3 July 2023 17:43 (nine months ago) link
Anyway NY has an amazing amount of great record stores right now.
I now have a record player for the first time in about 10 years. My nearest record store in Hoboken is certainly a lot more bustling now than it was 10 yrs ago. Lots of kids in there browsing the records when I visit now, vs. when it used to just be a few crusty old-timers like me.
― o. nate, Monday, 3 July 2023 18:59 (nine months ago) link
Oh man, if I was solo that Marcia Griffiths show would be very appealing. Probably a bit of a sell to the kids tho, especially for the ride out from Manhattan.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 3 July 2023 19:07 (nine months ago) link
The records stores sound great Dan, thx! Hadn't even heard of either of those.
Is Tunes the store in Hoboken still? There’s also Iris Records in Jersey City
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 00:40 (nine months ago) link
Love not money is pretty new. My good old friend Joshua Gabriel with the help of Andy from Cake Shop. Those are just two good options downtown. The Brooklyn options are insane.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 00:45 (nine months ago) link
Ergot is good. Downtown Music Gallery is the classic. For newer stuff, you could check Stranded on 5th Street?Brooklyn Record Exchange also good, especially the Bushwick location.Deep Cuts in Ridgewood probably has some noise records.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 00:51 (nine months ago) link
The P.I.T. in Williamsburg (south side) is a cool leftist bookstore that also has a bunch of records and stuff, as well as hosting musical performances (of all kinds but often improvised music.)
― ian, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 00:53 (nine months ago) link
What about the Grouch?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 00:57 (nine months ago) link
Been meaning to get to PIT because they keep booking Baltimore’s Smoke Bellow who I love. PIT is booked by/worked by Jim from Sunwatchers.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 00:58 (nine months ago) link
Grouch definitely has lots of noise but especially the more academic side of avant-garde music iirc. they have a 2nd location now also, open during shows at 411 kent ave.
― ian, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 01:00 (nine months ago) link
Dan is like the secret agent man of record stores in bk respect
― calstars, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 01:08 (nine months ago) link
Flood reports and sh1t
― calstars, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 01:09 (nine months ago) link
I just follow them all in social media. I don’t actually ever go to record stores. Except the academy in 18th at because it’s across the street from my job and hip Brooklyn record nerds don’t go there so I’m always finding cool post punk or whatever. Now if only I am get captured ephemera to write me back about selling all my posters.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 03:41 (nine months ago) link
Is Tunes the store in Hoboken still?
Yes, still going strong.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 15:42 (nine months ago) link
2010-2013, when the market for physical media was nil, I would go to Tunes once a week and would find absolutely amazing shit every time…
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 18:17 (nine months ago) link
Oh Eric Adams. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/nyregion/mayor-adams-photo-venable-fake.html
In Mayor Eric Adams’s first month in office, he was confronted with a tragic crisis: the deaths of two New York City police officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance in Harlem.
Mr. Adams, a former police captain who campaigned as a Democratic crime fighter, quickly sought to humanize the killings. The loss of the officers, he said, reminded him of the 1987 line-of-duty death of a friend, Officer Robert Venable.
“I still think about Robert,” Mr. Adams said at a news conference at City Hall. “I keep a picture of Robert in my wallet.”
A week later, Mr. Adams posed for a portrait in his office, holding a wallet-size photo of Officer Venable after The New York Times had requested to see it. Mr. Adams has since repeated the moving anecdote in media interviews and at a Police Academy ceremony last June, where he again displayed Officer Venable’s picture.
But the weathered photo of Officer Venable had not actually spent decades in the mayor’s wallet. It had been created by employees in the mayor’s office in the days after Mr. Adams claimed to have been carrying it in his wallet.
The employees were instructed to create a photo of Officer Venable, according to a person familiar with the request. A picture of the officer was found on Google; it was printed in black-and-white and made to look worn as if the mayor had been carrying it for some time, including by splashing some coffee on it, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 6 July 2023 18:02 (nine months ago) link
― o. nate, Tuesday, July 4, 2023 11:42 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
It's always somewhat eerie to be reminded I'm not the only current Hoboken ilxor
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Thursday, 6 July 2023 18:03 (nine months ago) link
I went to Pier Platters once. Probably after it’s heyday and not long before closing though.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 6 July 2023 19:56 (nine months ago) link
Walking to work this morning and noticing tons of new stores opening soon and development in the stretch of lower 5th ave between 23rd st and 14th. I work in Flatiron two days a week and this strip has had tons of vacancies for years but now seems to be filling in. Still plenty of empty office space I'm sure and this is def anecdotal, but I find it curious.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:58 (nine months ago) link
Of course Bed Bath and Beyond is gonna sit empty for a decade.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:08 (nine months ago) link
lots of tourists in that area due to the Harry Potter thing on 22nd (and the flatiron, and eataly...)
― calstars, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 18:25 (nine months ago) link
New York Magazine's "New Glut City" article: https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-office-real-estate-rechler-rxr-project-kodak.html
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 18:36 (nine months ago) link
I work in an RXR building 2 days a week. Last week they had an ice cream social in the lobby. Free ice cream. Look what you're missing remote workers.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 18:52 (nine months ago) link
Same! I was in the office but didn't go.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 19:15 (nine months ago) link
311 is shit
― calstars, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:46 (eight months ago) link
311 is a joke in yo town
― calstars, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:47 (eight months ago) link
Second day in a row I’ve see a bee attacking a lantern fly. Go bees!
― calstars, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:49 (eight months ago) link
has anyone else noticed that the carroll street bridge has been out of commission for at least two years?
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:50 (eight months ago) link
i moved back
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:51 (eight months ago) link
$15 sandwich town
― ian, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:54 (eight months ago) link
The bees are back in townThe bees are back in town
And if the bees wanna sting you better let 'em
― Josefa, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:57 (eight months ago) link
carrol st construction will go on Forever
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:58 (eight months ago) link
i actually have noticed that about the carroll street bridge
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:59 (eight months ago) link
remembering now that i asked a construction worker about it early on and he said it would be done "by the fall." i guess he didn't say which fall
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 15:14 (eight months ago) link
The fall of New York City.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 15:37 (eight months ago) link
Why is he like this
Mayor Eric Adams (D) opines on outdoor dining: “ ... You’re looking to date, you may drive by, you may see eye candy sitting down somewhere, you may want to park and come and slip them your number. Hey, listen, come have fun, man. Outdoor dining is the way to go.” pic.twitter.com/TqMCFWgtce— The Recount (@therecount) August 16, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:42 (eight months ago) link
The actual funniest part of that is "you may want to park" — spoken like a true cop-turned-politician who never actually has to find a place to park.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:43 (eight months ago) link
I’m trying to imagine any of our previous mayors saying that and…nope, impossible
― calstars, Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:04 (eight months ago) link
Ed Koch never rolled that way
― Josefa, Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:10 (eight months ago) link
It's kind of funny to imagine it in Bloomberg's fussy voice.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:14 (eight months ago) link
Tom Verlaine storage locker book sale, the Arkestra (free!) and I’m pretty sure D4n selz3r dj’d this weekend. And you wanna tell me nyc is dead.
― ian, Sunday, 27 August 2023 21:29 (seven months ago) link
yesterday i saw billy harper, eddie henderson, george cables, cecil mcbee, billy hart, david weiss, donald harrison, and 75 dollar bill for free yesterday. (my last summer licks before they impose their onerous 'congestion pricing' to keep suburban motorists like me off their sacred shores. no way would i have gotten from marcus garvey park down to bryant park in time for the 75 dollar bill set w/o wheels.)
i can vouch that ian was indeed at the tom verlaine book sale! verlaine apparently had boundless curiosity; book subjects were all over the map. he seemed to have a deep interest in china. the bookstore owner relayed a funny story jimmy ripp had told him, where the band was in china for a gig and ripp suggested staying on for a week and exploring china. verlaine nixed it and said he wanted to get back to ny, presumably so he could go to strand and buy more books about china.
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:32 (seven months ago) link
Marcus Garvey to Bryant is 20 minutes by train, 25 by bike (by conservative google estimate). Can't imagine driving is faster, but I don't drive.
Verlaine books were amazingly diverse, got a book of Norwegian photography and a Gary Snyder volume.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 28 August 2023 00:02 (seven months ago) link
I did dj. Fun was had by most. And my kid did a lemonade stand today. Sold out in an hour. You can’t tell me NYC is dead. Money went to Hawaii fire charity and a snake refuge(opals business partner Pete’s idea).
― dan selzer, Monday, 28 August 2023 00:17 (seven months ago) link
what kind of books about China are we talking? i'm always looking for titles i don't already have about ancient China, as well as Chinese language & cosmology, especially if they're up to date. I'm not so interested in books about modern China. Should i reach out?
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 28 August 2023 02:27 (seven months ago) link
Deflatormouse i think it might be worth your while checking out the verlaine sale. go early though if you can -- the line builds up, and once the garages fill with people it becomes one-in for each one out. there is one garage where each book is $5 and a nearly-adjacent garage where each book is $10. i am not sure when the next group of books go on sale.
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 28 August 2023 09:26 (seven months ago) link
NYC may not be dead, but when was the last time it headed into September with both the Mets and Yankees in last place?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 15:59 (seven months ago) link
🍻
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 16:07 (seven months ago) link
xp I don't think that has ever happened. Perhaps the closest we've come was in 1967 when the Yankees were in 9th place out of 10 AL teams and the Mets were in 10th place out of 10 NL teams going into September. Both teams finished the season in those same places.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 16:41 (seven months ago) link
NYC is doomed. The migrant crisis is sinking us. People need to protest the feds. - Eric Adams paraphrased last night. Turn the buses around. pic.twitter.com/tkIDmVUYci— Joe Borelli (@JoeBorelliNYC) September 7, 2023
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 7 September 2023 16:58 (seven months ago) link
fuck these assholes
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:00 (seven months ago) link
absolutely no way this includes cops
INBOX: @NYCMayor's office announces another 5% budget cut across all city agencies, citing concern about "financial disruption" from the migrant crisis."The administration will seek to minimize disruption to programs and services, and there will not be layoffs," City Hall says.— Chris Sommerfeldt (@C_Sommerfeldt) September 9, 2023
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 September 2023 18:58 (seven months ago) link
I don't know if it's dead but Eric Adams definitely sucks and everybody has COVID. Be careful out there. I'm currently strongly in the testing negative but feel like death is it just the heat or allergies or tapering off lexapro too fast or just plain COVID. One friend said he felt the worst the day before testing positive so I'm trying to be careful and will test again tomorrow morning.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 9 September 2023 23:19 (seven months ago) link
Tested positive.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 10 September 2023 01:24 (seven months ago) link
Ugh, sorry
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 September 2023 13:29 (seven months ago) link
Sorry for the Covid and also the tapering of meds; both a real mindfuck.
I like this rain though.
― ian, Sunday, 10 September 2023 15:00 (seven months ago) link
I drive through it on the way to my in-laws house in Nj. They both have covid and we’re hoping my wife and kid can be spared. Want to quarantine? Try gw bridge traffic in the pouring rain for a while!
― dan selzer, Sunday, 10 September 2023 20:48 (seven months ago) link
ah yes we got caught in that storm too. brutal
― 龜, Monday, 11 September 2023 11:27 (seven months ago) link
Are we having a fruit fly hatchout citywide or am i insane
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 September 2023 20:44 (seven months ago) link
On Long Island, but wondering the same.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 14 September 2023 21:51 (seven months ago) link
Lantern fly stomp count today: 3
― calstars, Thursday, 14 September 2023 22:06 (seven months ago) link
yall tip a capful of bleach down yr drains if you think you might have baby flies germinating in there.
― ian, Thursday, 14 September 2023 23:10 (seven months ago) link
I've got about 30 tomatoes in my kitchen, so I am presuming it's that combined with the warm, wet weather.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 15 September 2023 12:14 (seven months ago) link
I read that just pouring boiling water down the drain is effective for fruit flies
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 September 2023 12:23 (seven months ago) link
.@NYCMayor with the robocop, which cannot make the heart with the mayor because it has no arms pic.twitter.com/vuvkmslYwz— katie honan (@katie_honan) September 22, 2023
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 September 2023 23:11 (seven months ago) link
Yup we dead
― calstars, Friday, 22 September 2023 23:45 (seven months ago) link
New York City now has 17 supertall skyscrapers (over 300m/roughly 1000 feet). Somebody must be doing something right I guess.
― Josefa, Saturday, 23 September 2023 00:08 (seven months ago) link
15 of the 17 were built post-2001
― Josefa, Saturday, 23 September 2023 00:16 (seven months ago) link
#apartmentgoals
― calstars, Saturday, 23 September 2023 00:17 (seven months ago) link
As your real estate agent I’d like to put you in 432 Park Avenue, which is unique in having empty floors interpolated between the regular floors so that wind can blow through the building, thus providing greater stability and less swaying.
Also it’s conveniently close to the Plaza Hotel, Central Park, and other attractions.
― Josefa, Saturday, 23 September 2023 00:41 (seven months ago) link
Good for an ambient wind + percussion project
― calstars, Saturday, 23 September 2023 00:47 (seven months ago) link
That’s good, bc due to availability issues I may have to put you in one of the empty floors
― Josefa, Saturday, 23 September 2023 00:53 (seven months ago) link
Are you one of those real estate agents that live out of town
― calstars, Saturday, 23 September 2023 01:09 (seven months ago) link
Check the fine print in case the building and/or ambient wind project wants to retain IP rights to any photos or videos you take inside.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 23 September 2023 06:09 (seven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/6V3Ebn3.jpgCan u dig it
― calstars, Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:21 (six months ago) link
Not dead
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 28 October 2023 04:09 (five months ago) link
“By 8 a.m. Thursday, around 10 agents could be seen standing on Ms. Suggs’s block, according to a video of the scene taken by a neighbor and viewed by The New York Times. One agent wore a light green tactical vest with the letters “F.B.I.” stamped on the back. Another official could be seen leaving the apartment with a cardboard box.Ms. Suggs was standing on the stoop with her father as the agents searched her home, according to the neighbor, Christopher Burwell.“Whatever it is, she must have been tricked into it, because she’s a great woman,” Mr. Burwell said. “I’ve known her all my life.””OOH SOMEONE PLAYING TRICKSIES AGAIN
― calstars, Thursday, 2 November 2023 21:47 (five months ago) link
“Ms. Suggs has also registered as a lobbyist. State records indicate that the East Broadway Mall, a Chinatown real estate concern, hired Ms. Suggs, via an intermediary, to lobby the mayor’s office and the New York City Council on its behalf in 2022.”Who knew the east broadway mall had this much stake in the game
― calstars, Thursday, 2 November 2023 21:49 (five months ago) link
Have spent many a pleasant afternoon in and around the East Broadway Mall
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 November 2023 22:20 (five months ago) link
I have jury duty coming up, I hope I get put on the Adams fake Chinese donors case
― calstars, Saturday, 4 November 2023 16:54 (five months ago) link
Thank you to all that fight the good fight with me. NYC is irredeemable. Congratulations to .@KeithPowersNYC. The city has blindly chosen its own suicide. Jews, get out while you can. My family will be. To the Nazi machine machine that killed a great city: You are a grave…— Brian Robinson (@VoteBrian) November 8, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:05 (five months ago) link
can anyone explain what the "nazi machine machine" is?
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:12 (five months ago) link
or maybe not
― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:13 (five months ago) link
what's a brian robinson
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:22 (five months ago) link
apparently he ran for NYC city council but lost to the nazi machine machine
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:27 (five months ago) link
he was a democrat. he ran as a republican. he lost so new he's leaving.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:28 (five months ago) link
Brian Robinson, a Republican who ran an unsuccessful campaign to represent New York City's 4th City Council district, raged against the entire city shortly after losing to incumbent Democrat Keith Powers by nearly 50 points.
https://www.rawstory.com/brian-robinson-new-york/
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:28 (five months ago) link
oh, here's the context
His opponent, newcomer and former finance business owner Robinson, cast himself as a lapsed Democrat and attempted a last-minute mudslinging campaign casting Powers as a so-called "Hamas coddler" in a widely-condemned District 4 mailer.
wow didn't know there was a hamas city council member
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:31 (five months ago) link
fucking rad moving 2 4th dist
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:34 (five months ago) link
“F.B.I. Seizes Eric Adams’s Phones as Campaign Investigation IntensifiesDays after a raid at Mr. Adams’s chief fund-raiser’s home, federal agents took the mayor’s phones and iPad, two people with knowledge of the matter said.”This gets better and better
― calstars, Saturday, 11 November 2023 13:34 (five months ago) link
Dog Town and B-boys
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2023 19:21 (five months ago) link
apparently he was in a turkish rom-com movie? and the money was apparently connected to Erdogan’s kids
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 13 November 2023 23:07 (five months ago) link
"Eric Adams’s Top Fund-Raiser Is Out Amid F.B.I. Scrutiny and Raid"awww
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 22:09 (four months ago) link
Some really good writing in Hellgate
https://hellgatenyc.com
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:12 (four months ago) link
I subscribe. It’s good.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 9 December 2023 17:24 (four months ago) link
this is the first thing @NYCMayor said when a reporter asked how his year went yesterday pic.twitter.com/leEqTzjPKD— Nick Garber (@nick_garber) December 18, 2023
― mookieproof, Monday, 18 December 2023 22:58 (four months ago) link
he really really wants to be mayor during a 9/11
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 December 2023 23:14 (four months ago) link
Hey, it worked for Giuliani ...
― nickn, Monday, 18 December 2023 23:24 (four months ago) link
Maybe he’s just been getting into Laurie Anderson
Mayor Eric Adams at a town hall last week: “I am the pilot, and you are all passengers. Pray for me to land the plane, cause there’s no parachutes on this plane, we’re all going down together.” pic.twitter.com/DuZSM5aQ1c— sami (@hellosami) December 24, 2023
― JoeStork, Monday, 25 December 2023 20:35 (four months ago) link
Overheard at the bar ; the place for affordable apartments these days is sunnyside
― calstars, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 21:20 (four months ago) link
Maybe compared to Manhattan and Brooklyn but nope, not really. I mean depends on what you're idea of affordable is.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 22:54 (four months ago) link
I spied a studio in rockaway on the Long Island border for $2k. How much is the same in sunnyside?
― calstars, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 23:07 (four months ago) link
That seems nuts. I would think you can still find a studio in that range in Jackson Heights or Rego Park or Woodside or Elmhurst, have actual transit options, and not be at the end of the earth.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 23:33 (four months ago) link
You would know lol
― calstars, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 23:44 (four months ago) link
There’s one studio in sunnyside for 2100. More in the 2300 to 2500 range and up. Woodside is more affordable if you’re lucky but there’s not a lot of openings around.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 23:53 (four months ago) link
It’s not the average price, but there’s 258 studios in Manhattan right now under 2500.
That’s twice as many as there are in Brooklyn or queens.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 00:18 (three months ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/29/style/williamsburg-brooklyn-history-timeline.htmlEnjoyed this, lot of old places called out. Was thinking the other day about Galapagos, that place was so cool
― calstars, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:57 (two months ago) link
I got mugged on the way back from Galapagos one night. 4 or 5 guys dressed all in black surrounded me and at that exact instant somebody came out their front door, in the house directly next to where we were. In a moment of unduplicatable coolness I reached into my pocket for my cigarettes, shook one free from the pack, and asked the person if they had a light. As they handed me their lighter I edged out of the circle of guys in slow motion, handed the lighter back, and just kept walking, and everyone went on their way.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 10:18 (two months ago) link
Oh and the kicker was that when I got back home my roommate is sitting there shaking and I'm like what's up, and he points to his neck and goes "can you see that?" There was a tiny cut on his neck. And he told a story of 4 or 5 guys dressed in black who surrounded him, pressed a knife to his throat and demanded his wallet.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 10:19 (two months ago) link
Re: the article, I was at that Yeah Yeah Yeahs parking lot gig! Liars played too. I was on acid. I took some video with a camcorder. I have probably mentioned this before.
Nice to see Cafe Right Bank, Oznot's Dish, Planet Thailand shout outs. They neglect to mention the original location of Planet Thailand was not far from the Right Bank, a tiny dingy room where it was BYOB. And that they had to change their name to Plan-EAT Thailand because of a legal threat from Planet Hollywood (!)
Domsey's deserves a whole article itself. That place clothed the entire neighborhood. Remains the best thrift store I've ever been to. Multilevel. Like a paradise.
I would have maybe liked to see a focus less on the, er, commerce of the area - the article reads like a list of shops and restaurants - and focus on the personalities, the artists and weirdos who are kind of vaguely referred to but never actually talked about or interviewed
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 11:32 (two months ago) link
Oneida played that gig too. I was there. It was out in by Might Robot and the Twisted Ones, both of whom deserved mention. I complained about that but did later notice Monster Island was mentioned, which was a later Might Robot thing, when it first became Secret Project Robot.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 12:09 (two months ago) link
Yes! Oneida with their weird little crap piano thing they were hammering on iirc.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 12:12 (two months ago) link
I would have killed to be at that! YYY's are my fave and one of my old colleagues' husband is in Oneida but I've never seen them.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 12:34 (two months ago) link
Yes the original location of planet Thailand was on Bedford between n 6 and 7 if I recall. They had this amazing ground pork salad
― calstars, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 14:30 (two months ago) link
I feel like it was closer to the water but yes basically that's it. YES THE PORK SALAD I HAD FORGOTTEN THAT.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 17:29 (two months ago) link
original location was in part of the space that became Spike Hill
― Josefa, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 17:56 (two months ago) link
No there was a location before that. Tiny. Like three formica tables. It was like N 1st near the water. I swear I didn’t dream this.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 18:34 (two months ago) link
ok, I'm curious: was the pork salad larb or something different?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 19:41 (two months ago) link
xp Hm. Before my time, surely. Like earlier than '94?
― Josefa, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 19:43 (two months ago) link
Yes larb
― calstars, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:26 (two months ago) link
The bigger location when they moved around the corner on 7th was still excellent, there was that huge moving rowboat sculpture
― calstars, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:28 (two months ago) link
Josefa I’ve looked around online and I guess I did dream the location. from a bit of web research it seems like it was always on Bedford, even when it was tiny. memories are hazy naturally. I went there in the summer of ‘95 and then from ‘96-‘97. i think i’m associating it with the Right Bank because i was always there in those days.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:40 (two months ago) link
i personally don't mind, but the level of cloudiness lately has been remarkable
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:10 (two months ago) link
my brain is dying
― ivy., Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:15 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFdqHEubzg
― ivy., Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:16 (two months ago) link
they were fine at the time. Don't let nostalgia cloud you. Come to Queens where the thai food is.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:31 (two months ago) link
Here’s a demo of New York City’s new automatic side loading garbage truck lifting large on street containers. A pilot program is expanding to all of Community Board District 9 in West Harlem. pic.twitter.com/d9NmXaupOC— Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) February 1, 2024
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 February 2024 17:46 (two months ago) link
lmao the soundtrack too funny
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 February 2024 19:40 (two months ago) link
it's wild how garbage is handled in NYC currently though
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 February 2024 19:57 (two months ago) link
From what I’ve always seen the way they handle garbage in New York is they put it in bags on the sidewalk and it sits there forever
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 3 February 2024 01:38 (two months ago) link
Haven’t been in a while
. . . largely true
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 February 2024 01:55 (two months ago) link
they jumped straight from 19th century sanitation to 21st century sanitation
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 3 February 2024 16:06 (two months ago) link
Slush crusher
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:29 (two months ago) link
lame storm
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:33 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2OuISDc.jpg
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:39 (two months ago) link
Isn't this the first snow in New York in two years or something though?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:54 (two months ago) link
Second this winter iirc
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:00 (two months ago) link
We got 1.7 inches (Central Park) on January 15-16.
In the 2022-23 cold season we only got 2.3 inches, which was the lowest total since record keeping began in 1869.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:07 (two months ago) link
Post Civil War weather vibes
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:12 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/imesp9t.jpgmuch to pore over here
― calstars, Friday, 16 February 2024 23:07 (two months ago) link
Victor Borge!
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 16 February 2024 23:35 (two months ago) link
Yeah trying to figure out what year that pic is supposed to be could keep me busy theoretically forever
― O Fundo Escuro de (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 17 February 2024 01:46 (two months ago) link
‘Hook’ plus the Pepsi logos suggests 1991
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:31 (two months ago) link
But Victor Borge suggests 1983It’s impossible to pin down because it’s a compositeThat’s one of the reasons why it’s great
― O Fundo Escuro de (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:36 (two months ago) link
Borge also played Carnegie Hall in ‘88, but yeah it’s surely a fool’s errand to make this make sense.
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:39 (two months ago) link
Smells of weed everywhere
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:04 (two months ago) link
― O Fundo Escuro de (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:08 (two months ago) link
I’d never heard of this artist , Ken keeley, but I think he’s pretty good
― calstars, Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:34 (two months ago) link
Joe Camel’s presence is a solid vote for 1990The HoJo’s was there until 2006
― calstars, Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:35 (two months ago) link
HoJo's was on the corner iirc, not mid block. Also does anyone remember a Times Sq B&N location? I don't. It's all recognizable but slightly askew.
Yeah, not bad
― O Fundo Escuro de (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:50 (two months ago) link
Noticed that too and I recall is that bookstores were more prevalent 35 years ago. It’s possible I guess
― calstars, Saturday, 17 February 2024 21:00 (two months ago) link
the main thing that looks off is how clean and uncluttered the bldg on the right islike someone dropped a corporate hq in times sq find myself somewhat buying into the illusion but second guessing even that mtv building has way more shit going on
― O Fundo Escuro de (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 17 February 2024 23:58 (two months ago) link
Well also the total absence of anything lascivious or low-brow? Wouldn’t there have been at least one triple-X marquee?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 18 February 2024 07:51 (two months ago) link
https://hellgatenyc.com/brooklyns-tallest-tower-radiates-pure-evil-and-i-love-it
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 23:54 (one month ago) link
What’s funny about this building is that it’s on the same block as Junior’s. So if you’re ever out and need to eat cheesecake or sit at a bar from 1982, head for the dark tower
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 23:55 (one month ago) link
And then if you want to enjoy a live show like it's 1962 go right across the street to the reborn Brooklyn Paramount and behold the dark tower from there.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 04:31 (one month ago) link
Gov. Kathy Hochul's (D-NY) response to anyone who doesn't want the National Guard or state police to search their bags on the NYC subways:"Then go home. We're not going to search you, you can say no, but you're not taking the subway." pic.twitter.com/hJ1fecGdx8— The Recount (@therecount) March 7, 2024
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 7 March 2024 20:22 (one month ago) link
“you can take a helicopter just like me”
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:37 (one month ago) link
it's going to extra weird summer in the city this year i feel
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:41 (one month ago) link
get extra*
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:42 (one month ago) link
It’s a stupid answer, sure, but it’s also a stupid question
― calstars, Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:48 (one month ago) link
Big restless energy in the city tonight imo
― ian, Thursday, 7 March 2024 22:28 (one month ago) link
it really is isn't it
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 7 March 2024 22:59 (one month ago) link
We call New York City the Port-Au-Prince of America. We feel the pain our Haitian neighbors feel as the situation grows dire. To the people of Haiti and our own Haitian community here in New York City, know that we stand with you today and always.— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) March 13, 2024
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 March 2024 12:54 (one month ago) link
sigh how long til the next election again?
― calstars, Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:03 (one month ago) link
as the situation GROWS dire????
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 March 2024 13:38 (one month ago) link
I agree Adams is an asshole and a fabulist... but, to be honest, there is a huge Haitian community around Nostrand/Flatbush and this whole 'controversy' sounds more xenophobic than something useful, tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHAiFYrOQM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_5c2XpYI5k
― fpsa, Thursday, 14 March 2024 14:44 (one month ago) link
"We call New York City the X of America""No we don't?""That's racist"
come on.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:23 (one month ago) link
The mayor hates his own city and thinks the people in NYC who look like the folks who love in haiti are the ones causing all the problems
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:59 (one month ago) link
I'm not defending Adams at all, he is horrible. I'm just saying the way people have been trying to prove that no one calls NYC Port au Prince seems an overreaction, one that stems a bit from also not knowing about Haitians living here, that's all.
Adams being horrible and making a mistake does not negate the fact that people in NYC can be xenophobic in more subtle ways
― fpsa, Thursday, 14 March 2024 19:58 (one month ago) link
I'm sorry, I'm having a bad day – I am not trying to be combative, specially with a topic related to Adams, who's horrible in all ways to refugees and stateless people right now. I just see a lot of casual xenophobia around my neighborhood (I live near a lot of Haitians) and it sucks, and I get defensive. Sorry again to you both
― fpsa, Thursday, 14 March 2024 20:07 (one month ago) link
I get what ur getting at tho.
There are many many ways to parse what he’s saying and none of them are good for either ny-ers of any stripe or the ppl of haiti
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 March 2024 20:31 (one month ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/nyregion/migrants-debit-cards-nyc.html wow $1400 a month for food.
― calstars, Monday, 25 March 2024 23:49 (one month ago) link
My wife and I spend about $600 a month at the grocery store for the two of us, and we eat good food and buy things that would be considered luxuries by the kind of people who get pissed off at migrants or poor people on food assistance programs, so $1400 for four people seems pretty good.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 25 March 2024 23:55 (one month ago) link
Man, i don’t live in that food desert, but that seems helpful. It’s starting with 10 whole families, because they funded it initially from what they dug out the couch. 10 families?!
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 01:56 (one month ago) link
USDA national numbers https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/Cost_Of_Food_Low_Moderate_Liberal_Food_Plans_February_2024.pdf
low cost plan is about $250 per person per month. round up for NYC and then don't ask people to eat shit, and you get $1400+ for a family of four.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 02:35 (one month ago) link
I doubt migrants have a lot of access to facilities for food storage or cooking in that area. Some pleb with a chest freezer and an instant pot could probably live like a king or whatever
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 03:43 (one month ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-hires-high-profile-lawyer-to-defend-mayor-adams-against-sexual-assault-lawsuitAdams should be ashamed in more ways than one
― calstars, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 20:06 (two weeks ago) link
same lawyer as elon musk lmao
― 龜, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 20:41 (two weeks ago) link
Weird that Quinn does that at way below market rate. Only shows that they feel like they’re getting something else out of it. Whole thing is fucked up and I dont understand why a city law dept attorney can’t defend him.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 21:28 (two weeks ago) link
never thought i would miss di blasio, but this fucking guy is the worst
and it's only been like 18 months since people were all like 'National Democrats Can Learn from Eric Adams'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 21:43 (two weeks ago) link
It really seems like there’s nothing good about him. DeBlas at least had a few bright spots. Universal pre-k stands out.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 13:32 (two weeks ago) link
Windy af todayWish I was at the top of the Brooklyn dark tower
― calstars, Saturday, 13 April 2024 19:58 (one week ago) link
Swayin’
I went to Hamburger America today and damn if that isn't the most excellent burger (the Motz Onion Burger).
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 13 April 2024 20:33 (one week ago) link
Will try
― calstars, Saturday, 13 April 2024 20:59 (one week ago) link
on first impression the Brooklyn Paramount is really a great music room, and gorgeous.
― bulb after bulb, Sunday, 14 April 2024 19:34 (one week ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rrR5mKc.jpegThese adams headlines are making me lol
― calstars, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:38 (one week ago) link
(From hellgate, great site, thank you to whoever recommended it here)
really bums me out every time i pass by my library on a sunday
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 19:08 (two days ago) link
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 20:02 (two days ago) link
Remember those days well.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 20:03 (two days ago) link