even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

It does not make sense to say “half full of one thing and half full of another thing and one more thing”

Yes. This is very bad writing. The writer obviously thinks that if the secret to good writing is to torture words.

This is very Vogue writing. I miss Jeffrey Steingarten in that rag.

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.

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

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

wow

Man, I've heard some dumb NIMBY fig leaf rationales, but this is among the most transparent

wow, waaaaaht?!

also, anyone who thinks it's "easy for a person to just slip through" has never waited for or ridden in a subway elevator

lol seriously

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.

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.

They probably see meeting the developers head-on as a lost cause. "But shrapnel!" looks like a Hail Mary pass

well the issue becomes that the villain is actually the city, broadly speaking, who have been giving away incredible deals for absolute peanuts for ages. they should be demanding that these developers top up the NYCHA maintenance and capital budgets. or just, y'know, tax the shit out of them so the city can fund things reliably. both unthinkable it seems.

something tells me the residents of a building called "Downtown By Phillipe Starck" might be incapable of waging a principled fight in this area

This is the same lady protesting the elevators lol pic.twitter.com/a8lc6Inzvc

— sensei-tional🌹 (@plumpearpeach) January 23, 2018

wow that's quite an account https://twitter.com/lgerstman

oh my god

waldorf-astoria: *not* pet-friendly

i love that she lives in the downtown area of the capital of planet earth and she's constantly shocked by the noise

I kind of hate myself every time I start digging through someone's personal social media for stuff like this, but damn hers is ripe for it.

loool her example of "noise/air polution" is trash pickup

NYC needs more trash pickup I’m pretty sure, or less trash

there's entitled and then there's

.@APPLEOFFIClAL please consider making the alarm clock more difficult to turn off. Perhaps requiring a code. #missedmyflight

— Linda Gerstman (@LGerstman) May 3, 2015

every tweet is an absurd complaint

I love it. So happy this woman exists.

She's like golem made out of links in this thread

honestly hundreds of this woman exist, and they all have yorkies

the yorkie is basically an avatar for their delicate, overly-fluffed little egos

I like imagining that they are all named after cute spots on recent tour of Tuscany

new york is not the capital of planet earth. i used to think that but no. london had a claim but not any more. i don't think there is one. sorry OT i know

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/fashion/weddings/a-commitment-for-more-than-one-lifetime.html?referer=http://m.facebook.com

Wow. People are interesting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/nyregion/how-salt-bae-restaurateur-spends-his-sundays.html

those "how i spent my sunday" things that i have read seem like they are inherently designed to make you dislike the person upon reading all the things they do on their sunday routine. first, they are fortunate enough to have a sunday routine. it gets worse from there.

yeah but the way this guy throws salt

the salt guy didn't bug me so much. i like salt.

when my salter has racing gloves on and puts his hips into it, that's the best salt

a 35-year-old bachelor (with 13 children)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQIbjS3j4yD/

oh my god these fucking babies

Leave the Twitter mob. Think for yourself. Listen for yourself. Turn of your political bloodlust. Learn how to disagree as a civilized adult. Stop bullying people. Just stop it. @bariweiss, I'm with you. Be strong, lady. This too shall pass.

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) February 17, 2018

like I get that female public figures get the brunt of online raging out but she did a racism and never even apologized

she did that thing where you're trying so hard not to be racist that you end up saying something a little bit racist

i thought bari weiss' original tweet was meant well, if inaccurate? but then she weirdly dug in on it and now it's all free speech or something idk

It has vastly more to do with existing antipathy towards Weiss and the broader trend towards mainstream papers seeking “balance” by recruiting right-wing hot-takers than the tweet everyone is pretending to be up in arms about.

Justifiable antipathy-she is awful.

there's something a little unsavoury about weiss standing back on her twitter perch and congratulating nagasu for doing her job well, as if she'd just taken out the trash

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/travel/saigon-ho-chi-minh-city-family-vacation.html

Which is why, on our last day before flying to the beach, I booked a van to the Cu Chi tunnels, the underground former Viet Cong base, about 90 minutes outside Saigon, that is a major tourist draw. At last, the kids could roam and climb, and gawk at the admirably barbaric traps used to catch enemy soldiers, while I pointed out ponds that were really bomb craters and told them about a war I was born too late to remember firsthand. And, of course, we clambered about in the three-foot-high tunnels, which is any kid’s dream but drew rivers of sweat even from this smaller-than-average American.

When we emerged, Sandy (who could stand fully upright in the tunnels) explained: “You ate a lot of dinner — that’s why you didn’t fit in the tunnel. You ate a lot of food — like Anna and Elsa!”

Sasha was more succinct: “This place is pretty amazing!”

As my heart warmed, I also realized: Oh my god, my kids are … tourists. They like it easy. They like fun. They’re on vacation. What did I expect?

Admirably barbaric, indeed.