is New York City dead?

a rare resuscitation
https://nypost.com/2020/11/23/wealthy-new-yorkers-save-famous-astor-place-barbershop

Nice!

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

"couldn't be much worse" is my immediate response

100%

https://nyti.ms/39yfsia

pretty cool

Bombers doing whole cars on the M trains this week suggests NYC IS BACK BB

pics or it didn't happen

Chinatown is the best

https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/12/2/22149612/two-dozen-subway-cars-struck-in-overnight-graffiti-storm

dope

Who says ya can’t nevah go back again? :)

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

can't argue with cup o noodle red bull lady

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

https://awrycomics.com/im-in-new-york/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/nyregion/nyc-residential-parking.html

ban cars iirc

“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

I pay 175/mo to park in my building's garage, it's a dream.

"the city does not owe you a place to store your private property" makes sense as long as the subway works.

would happily pay $175 a month extra in taxes if i were guaranteed a spot on my block.

lol that will solve the problem

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.

On-street parking should be abolished everywhere for anyone without a disabled parking permit

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

On-street parking is probably fine as long as car ownership itself is fully socialised.

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.

would happily pay $175 a month extra in taxes if i were guaranteed a spot on my block.

― 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.

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

ugh and the gear gets stinky too

have only buses (whereby it takes multiple transfers and huge amounts of time to get most places).

Ride the bus it’s fun and you don’t have to drive

Self-driving cars will help relieve the parking situation. Only need to wait another 10-15 years.

No they won’t. They will change one set of parking problems for another. You’re waiting for a solution to geometry.

silby otm again and again

would happily pay $175 a month extra in taxes if i were guaranteed a spot on my block.

― adam, Tuesday, January 5, 2021 2:37 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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.

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

no cars in cities

^^^ 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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/nyregion/nyc-subway-coronavirus-safety.html

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

basically i'm saying, it's time for freak power

otm, ban cars in cities is a good incremental start

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.

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.

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.

Banning cars first is not an "incremental solution" it's "fuck you and hope this gets fixed in the future somehow"

Agree. Ban kids first, then ban cars.

"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...

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*