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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
311 is shit
― calstars, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
311 is a joke in yo town
― calstars, Sunday, 13 August 2023 18:47 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
i moved back
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:51 (one year ago) link
$15 sandwich town
― ian, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:54 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
i actually have noticed that about the carroll street bridge
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:59 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
The fall of New York City.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 15:37 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
I’m trying to imagine any of our previous mayors saying that and…nope, impossible
― calstars, Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:04 (one year ago) link
Ed Koch never rolled that way
― Josefa, Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:10 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
🍻
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 16:07 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
fuck these assholes
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 7 September 2023 17:00 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
Tested positive.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 10 September 2023 01:24 (one year ago) link
Ugh, sorry
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 September 2023 13:29 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
ah yes we got caught in that storm too. brutal
― 龜, Monday, 11 September 2023 11:27 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
On Long Island, but wondering the same.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 14 September 2023 21:51 (one year ago) link
Lantern fly stomp count today: 3
― calstars, Thursday, 14 September 2023 22:06 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
Yup we dead
― calstars, Friday, 22 September 2023 23:45 (one year 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 (one year ago) link
15 of the 17 were built post-2001
― Josefa, Saturday, 23 September 2023 00:16 (one year ago) link
#apartmentgoals
― calstars, Saturday, 23 September 2023 00:17 (one year ago) link