bushwickdaily is generally a crushing thing to scroll through, just a delirious parade of gentrification boosterism with a sad veneer of hippitude. "feeling like some kind of bourgeois Brooklyn refugee" is particularly rich though. nice that the comments are going after him, i feel like 90% of the stuff on that site nobody even reads (which is good) or if they do nobody notices how fucked it is (which is bad).
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
agree with you on basically all points. what is "the nostalgia for now" called?
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
also not nyt (and not this year) but the terrible thing about the times is it could have been
this tweet reminds me of this class wall street journal image on “typical” family incomes pic.twitter.com/JexnSXOBxw— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) December 19, 2017
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
lol just your average single mom w two kids making a quarter of a million dollars
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
just your average retired couple with $130k of non-investment income
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
Is that dude wearing a scarf without a coat like rupert bear, or is it meant to be a jumper
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
Also lol for a uk reader these all look like court sketches of ppl
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 00:08 (six years ago) link
haha oh man i'd forgotten about that one. we've definitely clowned it before - i remember someone shedding a tear for sad dorothea lange portrait of the single parent living on $260,000 a year ($40,000 in deductions, $35,000 in investment income)
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 00:23 (six years ago) link
she looks like téa leoni in a movie that ends w her throwing away her ringing cell
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link
Is it not a dude with a very disco look? Anyway w/e about that, just how long are the blond child's arms?
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
I think he's got a sweater tied around his neck, because that's a look that exists outside of 1980s preps vs nerds comedies.
https://www.gofundme.com/brooklyn-refugee-needs-home
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
Why do they all look so miserable?
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 07:37 (six years ago) link
This must have been posted before. Bill Koch's son Wyatt and his fashion label: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYZH4TsloS6/?taken-by=wyatt.ingraham
Almost can't believe it's real.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 20 December 2017 08:13 (six years ago) link
xp bcos they're in court
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 08:36 (six years ago) link
xxp You try living on poverty wages in the big city.
― nickn, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/well/showering-morning-night.html
scraping the barrel herejust take a fucking shower
― calstars, Saturday, 23 December 2017 02:18 (six years ago) link
you clicked and shared their work is done
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 23 December 2017 09:09 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSTUX2uU8AEk5lX?format=jpg&name=small
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 December 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSTUX2uU8AEk5lX
my friends
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/dining/raw-water-unfiltered.html
― j., Saturday, 30 December 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
How's about all the Fortune 500 CEOs who get paid $100,000 a day to go golfing with each other?
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 30 December 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
A Zero Mass Water system, which extracts moisture from the air and stores the water, at a home in Oakland, Calif.
turns out Luke Skywalker got his start moisture farming on the west coast
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 30 December 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
Juicero dude’s got a new scam!
― DJI, Sunday, 31 December 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
“Just take a breath of air,” said Mr. Friesen, a professor of materials science at Arizona State University. “Take a deep breath. No matter how wealthy or poor you are, you can take a breath and own that air that you breathe. And yet water — the government brings it to you.”
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 December 2017 06:26 (six years ago) link
~think abt it~
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link
No matter how wealthy or poor you are, you can take a breath and own that air that you breathe.
NB: Become poor enough and you are much more likely to stop breathing.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 4 January 2018 00:34 (six years ago) link
not sure that this belongs here tbh but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feh8CkaPkr4
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
actually i just got to the part where she buys a 2k Chanel bag, nevermind
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:45 (six years ago) link
bonus points of note: she has named her aloe plantsbackward shirt for some reasonthe stool seats wrapped in crinolinelikes to wear louboutins around the apartment"i can't look directly in the mirror without standing on my tiptoes... but i tell myself it's good exercise?"the gallery of angry notes from the downstairs neighbor
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:51 (six years ago) link
http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/01/tamar-adler-grub-street-diet.html
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 19 January 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
Eh that’s not bad at all. There’s a lot of food detail, but she’s a chef & food writer.
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 20 January 2018 08:36 (six years ago) link
This is vomit-inducing: "My son is disappointed with me while I produce the elixir I need to have the spirit of a good Spoons player. I emerge onto the field of sport at around 7:05 with a quart-size Mason jar half-full of black tea and half-full of organic lactose-free whole milk and maple syrup. I am renewed."
― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 20 January 2018 09:03 (six years ago) link
I'm going to go out on a limb and say her bad writing makes her sound much more insufferable than she probably actually is
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 January 2018 09:46 (six years ago) link
it certainly doesn't help but this is clearly someone who mistakes lifestyle for character
I ran into someone I try to avoid last week...my friend asked about her daughter, how she is liking college in the city, and she could only respond by going on about what a great neighborhood they put her in. She said Irving Place about six times inside of two minutes
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
Ugh w/ the mason jars already. As someone who stocks them at home for practical purposes—they are dirt cheap, interchangeable, and kid-proof—this trend has been a long hard slog.
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 20 January 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
It’s not like they’ve jacked up the price
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Saturday, 20 January 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
It does not make sense to say “half full of one thing and half full of another thing and one more thing”
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 20 January 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
Yes. This is very bad writing. The writer obviously thinks that if the secret to good writing is to torture words.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 20 January 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
This is very Vogue writing. I miss Jeffrey Steingarten in that rag.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 20 January 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
I just watched that apartment vid above and after bragging about having no ikea in her apartment she proceeds directly to the ikea expedit shelf.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 03:08 (six years ago) link
They're baaaaaaaaaack. The NIMBYs who are afraid of subway elevators decided to bring more attention to themselves and agreed to be interviewed by The Times. https://t.co/7Vc0n8awJE— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) January 22, 2018
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
We get a new cast of characters this time. Meet Claudia Ward, who works and lives in a .3 million apartment at 15 Broad Street, and thinks terrorists can't just walk up a flight of stairs instead. pic.twitter.com/Q4c9T2BLz9— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) January 22, 2018
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
wow
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:40 (six years ago) link
Man, I've heard some dumb NIMBY fig leaf rationales, but this is among the most transparent
― Dan I., Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
wow, waaaaaht?!
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
also, anyone who thinks it's "easy for a person to just slip through" has never waited for or ridden in a subway elevator
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
lol seriously
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
From the comments
...the article has done an excellent job at doing exactly what the developer of the new high rise wants - to divert attention from the real issue here. That is, that for a mere $20m they are getting a massive amount of additional air rights to build the tallest residential tower in Nee York. The developer’s crocodile tears for the disabled are a joke. No one wants to take services away from those who need it. But by making this a tale of “rich vs. disabled” that whole issue has been obfuscated.
There may be merit to this, which makes their decision to leverage terrorism even uglier. Would be surprised to learn that any of these people lived in the neighborhood before 9/11. Also fuck this lady for posing with her kid. If you are this concerned with your family's safety maybe move somewhere not literally called ground zero.
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
IDGI. If the point is that the development is bad, oppose the development. If the point is that they are paying too little for their variance, then protest that they should build TWO subway elevators, or an elevator and a park, or w/e.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
They probably see meeting the developers head-on as a lost cause. "But shrapnel!" looks like a Hail Mary pass
― Empire Burl Ives (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link