I went back to Queens last December, Chris, remember? Or maybe I didn't tell you.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll be taking the 7 to Shea for tonight's game (if anyone wants a drink in Jax Heights around 11, talk me into it)...
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
No, welcome back!
I am not leaving the goddamned air conditioning today.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
morbs, after arriving at the office
http://images.worldcupblog.org/ira/P_Rodney_Dangerfield_1.jpg
this summer has not been bad at all, people, stop being so dramatic
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i know it hasn't been that bad but listen i'm on the top floor and it's ALWAYS RIDICULOUS humd inside, much more hot and humid than it is OUTSIDE! i HATE that!
i think it's worse than last summer tho
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
The Fourth Avenue / 9th Street N/R/W platform was a FUCKING TREAT. The air was raising bruises on people.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
this is why you never live on the top floor, surmounter
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
(i live on the 2nd-to-top :D)
GABBNEBD HOW DO I GET TO UES
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
ARE 4-5-6 TRAINS RUNNING
This is why you never live in New York, even.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I am working from home with liv rm AC on -- it is puny but keeps the room totally livable if I wear shorts & don't move too fast. It's kind of a treat, actually, and will give me time to run out my dry cleaning, errands, etc today!
― Laurel, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
im gonna try to go in now :/
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
there must be a few buses to choose from if the 456 is down linds
― sleep, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Bell-- no 456 as of 11:45
― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_08_ihaz2.jpg
― hstencil, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I just walked into work with such a massive messenger-bag sweat-sash across my shirt that people awwwwwed at me like an infant.
We should all be praying that terrorists don't ever discover the secret to making it rain FOUR inches.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
this summer is more humid but last was by far hotter. it hasn't been that bad. i still wish i'd not been able to get to work, though. instead i'm cranky and i yelled at the new girl.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Hour of rain brings city to halt, C'MON BIN LADEN
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i was actually wondering if the rain wasn't a good cover for them to shut everything down because of some supposed terror plot.
― tehresa, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I dunno -- they seem to have been pretty consistent over the past years about, you know, any kind of rain, simultaneous air-conditioner leakage, excessive urination, or unpredicted dog-drool shutting the whole thing down.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i was only half an hour late; took bus. amazingly angry crowd.
― ian, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
of course our phones are fucked up at work again, like they are after any major storm.
― ian, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno man i didn't think last summer was that bad. there was that hot 10 days or something. i erally don't know i get my heat and humidity confuse.d
yes, top floors -i went to a friend's on the first floor the other day and it was so friggin cool. ugh
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i took the L to the R, which was stopping at 57th & 7th ave, walked over to madison, took a local bus up 20 blocks. not too bad and i probaaably should have done that a few hours ago. shrug
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i hope they fix it by tonight though.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope I don't have to take a ferry to Shea Stadium.
Amid the commuter havoc, M.T.A.’s website, mta.info, shut down. It was the second time in several weeks that the website was not able to function during a transit crisis. The last one was during a minor blackout on the east side of Manhattan several weeks ago.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha I am working from home!
― Laurel, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
this summer is a notch warmer on average than last year, despite the absence of sustained ridiculous heat, but it's nothing like '05 (or '02 (or, especially, '99))
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
(so I guess next summer's gonna be ridiculous?)
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
(especially if we transition to la nina)
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
my nyc summer experience would be 40% more tolerable if they would put fans or some kind of ventilation in the subway stations, ugh.
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
The M.T.A. issued this update on subway service at 12:44 p.m.:
1 trains are suspended in both directions between the South Ferry Station and the 34th Street Station. 2 trains are suspended in both directions between the 34th Street-Penn Station and the Atlantic Avenue Station. 3 trains are suspended in both directions between the New Lots Avenue Station and the Harlem-148th Street Station.
4 trains are suspended in both directions between the 86th Street Station and the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station. 5 trains are running shuttle train service in both directions between the East 180th Street Station and the Dyre Avenue Station. 6 trains are suspended in both directions between the 86th Street Station and the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station.
7 trains are running with delays.
A trains are running local. B trains are suspended in both directions between the Brighton Beach Station and the Bedford Park Boulevard Station. C trains are suspended in both directions between the Euclid Avenue Station and the 168th Street Station. D trains are suspended in both directions between the 145th Street Station and the Norwood-205th Street Station. E trains are suspended in both directions between the 23rd Street-Ely Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.
F trains are suspended in both directions between the Queens Plaza Station and the Jamaica-179th Street Station. G trains are suspended in both directions between the Long Island City-Court Square Station and the 4th Avenue-9th Street Station. V trains are suspended in both directions between the 2nd Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.
S Franklin Avenue Shuttle trains are suspended in both directions between the Prospect Park Station and the Franklin Avenue Station. S 42nd Street Shuttle trains are suspended in both directions between the Times Square-42nd Street Station and the Grand Central-42nd Street Station. J trains are running with residual delays. L trains are running with residual delays. N trains are running with residual delays. M trains are suspended in both directions between the Broad Street Station and the Bay Parkway Station. Q trains are suspended in both directions between the Kings Highway Station and the 57th Street-7th Avenue Station. R trains are suspended in both directions between the 57th Street-7th Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station. W trains are suspended in both directions between the Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard Station and the Whitehall Street Station.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
"Just pretend we're on strike, okay?"
― nabisco, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Officials said they are hopeful that service will be back to normal by the afternoon rush. They plan to issue a service plan by 3 or 4 p.m.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:12 (sixteen years ago) link
PELHAM 123 WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON DOWN THERE??
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
ah-CHOO!
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Gesundheit
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:25 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/350000/images/_351512_pelham.jpg
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, that worked well.
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i just had a mini heart palpitation when the ligthts flickered off at my work a minute ago. turned out it was just the electrician changing the light bulbs on the floor. NO BLACKOUT TODAY PLEASSSSE
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I was going to complain about Summer of '99 (a.k.a. the last summer I spent in NYC before this one) but I deleted it.
Many of those stations actually do have ventilation in them. You don't want to think about what it would be like without them!
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
the cats knew this would happen. they tried to tell me last night, but couldn't speak english.
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Waht we have here is a failure to communicate.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
mind meld.
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
yes summer of '05 sucked BIG TIME
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i was shocked when last summer was so tolerable
our power just went out like 5 min ago and the heat is already getting pretty terrible :x
― sleep, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh no!!! Fuuuuuck.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
geez i'm so sorry
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link