I wonder why the 7 isn't running from queensborough plaza to flushing? I think I'll try and bike it tomorrow--even reverse commute, I'm not sure about the buses.
With schools out, the libraries are going to be packed with kids (if they somehow find out we're open--ssshhhh).
― Virginia Plain, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
no idea why, but it sure makes my morning less fun
― iatee, Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
I'm gonna have to walk from wburg to penn station on friday I think : (
― 乒乓, Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
Debating just walking from here to work -- it could be about the equivalent of a car ride (2.5 hours)
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
VP, saw big sign on front of my branch, but tried to block it so kids wouldn't see
― 50 Skidillion Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
vp you should work for the brooklyn library -- their website is down, so know one will know that they're open tomorrow
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
idk where you work but 2.5 might even be an underestimate xp
― iatee, Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
I would prob just take the subway if I were you
― iatee, Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
Just this second got QBPL email "We're Open to Serve You During the Storm Recovery"
― 50 Skidillion Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, me too. And why are they promising homework help? There's no school so there shouldn't be too much homework and we are no doubt going to be short staffed.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
you should give them the wrong answers as revenge
― iatee, Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
I do that sometimes by mistake, and then the next day they come to me and reproach me and tell me that its my fault that they got their homework wrong . . . If I wanted to spend my afternoons doing kids' homework for them, I would have had my own kids. At least then their perfect answers would reflect well upon me.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 1 November 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
You should refer those kids to Random homework googler memorial thread
― 50 Skidillion Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 November 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
anyone have a map of this shuttle bus route? don't need til next week, probly
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 November 2012 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
ok:
http://www.mta.info/sites/default/files/pdf/nyct%20sandy%20day%201_rev2.pdf
not good enough imho
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 November 2012 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
Got on the F at 71st Ave with no problem a little before 7am. It filled up on the way (running local) but it really wasn't bad. More worried about getting home -- thinking about even possibly walking all the way to 34th/HS just to make sure I get on.
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Thursday, 1 November 2012 11:56 (eleven years ago) link
omg
http://instagram.com/p/RfTaDNykQP/
― iatee, Thursday, 1 November 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
fkin A!
― this update fixes the following known sugs (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 1 November 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
why don't they just walk across the bridge? jeez
― 乒乓, Thursday, 1 November 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
omfg
people go to ridiculous lengths just to show up at work when I'd guess at least a good portion of these people's bosses would understand if they stayed home
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Thursday, 1 November 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
My boss isn't going in, so....
― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Thursday, 1 November 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
Had a lovely bike ride to work this morning. My boss encouraged my coworker to try to make it in (against my better judgment) from South Brooklyn. After 2 hours, he had made it to the Brooklyn Museum (not sure how that's even possible that it was that slow). I told him to go back home.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
At Roosevelt Ave you have to wait upstairs before you are allowed to go through the turnstile down to the platform. It's like trying to get into a trendy nightclub, only instead of the velvet rope there is a twisted strand of crime scene tape.
― 50 Skidillion Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
all the nightclubs I go to use crime scene tape
― iatee, Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
... And the bouncer in an on duty cop.
lol iatee
― 50 Skidillion Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
any reports on return trips?
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Thursday, 1 November 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
(manhattan to brooklyn or queens)
I took the N from herald sq to qbp and walked back to sunnyside. I got a seat but the N was def crush load at and after times sq.
going to work it was crowded but not crush load, so I was surprised at the difference. maybe a lot of people didn't even know the subway was running this morning but took it on the way back.
― iatee, Thursday, 1 November 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
Only report is I went about 5 to Roosevelt to check it out and the people all of a sudden started piling up behind the turnstile. The authorities said something about "stopping" for a while, it wasn't clear whether this meant no trains or full platforms.
― 50 Skidillion Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 November 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
Weird thing is it if you didn't know ant better it looked like people lining up for a funicular
― 50 Skidillion Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 November 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
loling at everyone running out of gas
― iatee, Thursday, 1 November 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
I think I remember those 'nightclub' lines from the short transit strike.
I do not go to ridiculous lengths just to show up at work, esp when bldg is closed.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 November 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
MTA saying 4-5-6-F tunnels are 'close' to operational... all they'll need is power!
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 November 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
Is there some kind of partial E service? On the F tonight at Roosevelt Ave the train conductor said "transfer for the E train" but maybe that was out of habit
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 November 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
does not appear to be the case
7 is up from 74th to flushing tho
― iatee, Friday, 2 November 2012 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
east river ferry lines should be bad on manhattan side, not brooklyn side, at this time of day right?
― 乒乓, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, theoretically, but who knows. are you still in wburg trying to get back? I would just walk.
― iatee, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
yeah - it would be nice to take it to 34th since leaving from penn station. I guess I should just give myself a lot of time
― 乒乓, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
you can walk to the station and keep walking if it looks like a mess
― iatee, Friday, 2 November 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
It should be manageable at this time of day, just allow at least double the time you'd normally allow. My F commute took about an hour today to do what normally takes maybe 25 minutes. Going back last night around 8:30 pm was a breeze though, even got a seat.
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 November 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
I am slowly floating towards manhattan
― 乒乓, Friday, 2 November 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
just walked by park on 34 and sawa huge line - maybe for the ferry???
― 乒乓, Friday, 2 November 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
Line round the block for f at 63 and lex
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 November 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
My corny dad joke was to say "do you know if the 930 show is sold out?". By making that joke I was actually meta trolling life itself
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Friday, 2 November 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
metro north is free so I saved 20 bucks
the bus lines outside grand central were pretty crazy.
― iatee, Friday, 2 November 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
The line moved and the cops did a creditable job of keeping things safe and organized. I almost wanted to hug the cops that were stuck underground at the miserable 63/lex station all day
― Knut Horowitz, Able-Bodied Investment Banker and Ladies Man (Hurting 2), Saturday, 3 November 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
I just had Cuomo's briefing on but had to bail when Sen Schmuck came on. Did I hear the 4 & 5 are going Brooklyn-Manhattan now?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
I feel the most for cops who had to stand in the cold all over Lower Manhattan setting flares and directing traffic in the pitch dark. It's cold and windy down there! Flares are awesome, though.
― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
F getting restored later today, yeah yeah yeah
― 乒乓, Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
I just had Cuomo's briefing on but had to bail when Sen Schmuck came on. Did I hear the 4 & 5 are going Brooklyn-Manhattan now?― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, November 3, 2012 10:21 AM
I was wondering the same thing myself. I think it's true! 10 minute wait between trains but I'll take it!
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 3 November 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link