is New York City dead?

ah yes we got caught in that storm too. brutal

Are we having a fruit fly hatchout citywide or am i insane

On Long Island, but wondering the same.

Lantern fly stomp count today: 3

yall tip a capful of bleach down yr drains if you think you might have baby flies germinating in there.

I've got about 30 tomatoes in my kitchen, so I am presuming it's that combined with the warm, wet weather.

I read that just pouring boiling water down the drain is effective for fruit flies

.@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

Yup we dead

New York City now has 17 supertall skyscrapers (over 300m/roughly 1000 feet). Somebody must be doing something right I guess.

15 of the 17 were built post-2001

#apartmentgoals

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.

Good for an ambient wind + percussion project

That’s good, bc due to availability issues I may have to put you in one of the empty floors

Are you one of those real estate agents that live out of town

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.

https://i.imgur.com/6V3Ebn3.jpg
Can u dig it

Not dead

“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

“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

Have spent many a pleasant afternoon in and around the East Broadway Mall

I have jury duty coming up, I hope I get put on the Adams fake Chinese donors case

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

can anyone explain what the "nazi machine machine" is?

or maybe not

what's a brian robinson

apparently he ran for NYC city council but lost to the nazi machine machine

he was a democrat. he ran as a republican. he lost so new he's leaving.

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/

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

fucking rad moving 2 4th dist

“F.B.I. Seizes Eric Adams’s Phones as Campaign Investigation Intensifies
Days 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

Dog Town and B-boys

apparently he was in a turkish rom-com movie? and the money was apparently connected to Erdogan’s kids

"Eric Adams’s Top Fund-Raiser Is Out Amid F.B.I. Scrutiny and Raid"
awww

Some really good writing in Hellgate

https://hellgatenyc.com

I subscribe. It’s good.

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

he really really wants to be mayor during a 9/11

Hey, it worked for Giuliani ...

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

Overheard at the bar ; the place for affordable apartments these days is sunnyside

Maybe compared to Manhattan and Brooklyn but nope, not really. I mean depends on what you're idea of affordable is.

I spied a studio in rockaway on the Long Island border for $2k. How much is the same in sunnyside?

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.

You would know lol

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.

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/29/style/williamsburg-brooklyn-history-timeline.html

Enjoyed this, lot of old places called out. Was thinking the other day about Galapagos, that place was so cool