is New York City dead?

https://comb.io/0GQX8r

Why are we moving towards indoor dining?

Is it because we want no responsibility for the massive restaurant bankruptcies to come?

This gives restaurants half full seating, enough so they can fail more slowly, while risking thousands of lives?

Bail them out instead.

— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) June 27, 2020

zephyr otm

for real. I mean, yeah, it'd piss off the needledicks who can't stand the idea of not being able to go out and get a pint, but restaurant owners could relax and pay their furloughed employees without fear.

but nooooooooo, that's not what made America great! so the federal government will probably just annex each restaurant as its own sovereign territory and deport all restaurant owners to Canada.

i'm really fucking glad my friend's cat cafe got an EIDL loan, but he's got such a low cost operation going, he was able to adjust and work with the landlord to stay afloat. restaurants that have to buy large volumes of food product/beverage product and have high overhead , I don't even wanna imagine.

https://i.imgur.com/4B9qfOB.jpg

Anyone have any tips on where these undisclosed locations are? They have to be on the waterfront somewhere around Manhattan right ? How could they keep this a secret?

Macy's Fireworks Are Playing at My House

unimaginable

last i heard nabes were gettin 'heads up' due to complaints by vets with PTSD

https://ny.eater.com/2020/6/29/21306893/indoor-dining-delay-nyc-coronavirus
this is probably the right call

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/a-black-market-fireworks-dealer-explains-this-years-boom

Last week, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a thin man in a white T-shirt and a wide-brimmed Chicago Bulls cap proudly popped the trunk of his Chevy Malibu. Inside, there were Golden Willows, Chain Reactions, Parachute Battal­ions, and Mini Artillery Shells—dozens of colorful boxes, one of them labelled “For Daytime Use!” This was what remained of the twelve hundred dollars’ worth of fireworks that the man, who asked not to be named, had purchased during a visit to Keystone Fireworks, in Pennsylvania, and then sold, for more than double the price, around Brooklyn. (Fireworks are illegal in New York State.) He takes calls for deliveries from ­regular customers, or parks on a busy street and does business, out of his car, with ­whoever stops by. “People have always done fireworks,” he said, “but they’re going harder than ever this year. They can’t wait to come ­outside.”

“The money’s good,” the man in the Bulls cap said. This year, he sold in two days what would have normally taken him two weeks.

His fireworks aren’t cheap; the ­fanciest ones in his trunk go for two hundred bucks. So most of his customers are adults—“people with money,” he said—rather than teen-agers. Nearly all of them are men. They tend to be in their late twen­ties or thirties, and sometimes, if they’re buying fireworks before the sun has set, they bring their kids with them. That night, the man gestured around at the neighborhood, which was coming off a four-month lockdown. “They’re celebrating,” he said of the people setting off the fireworks. “It’s definitely about freedom.”

“I hope not” was all he had to say when asked if he thought police were shooting off fireworks. “We don’t need any more drama around here.”

A few blocks over, a group of young men, probably in their twenties, launched a several-minutes-long blitz. They took turns darting from the sidewalk into the street to light streams of Roman candles, which they topped off with five-hundred-­gram “cakes”: the largest firework that can be legally used without a ­federal explosives permit. People watched from their apartment buildings. One neighbor leaned out his window and begged the group to stop; the fireworks were scaring his dog. “Fuck your dog!” one of the men yelled back at him. “We will shoot these shits at your house!” Moments later, a cop car rolled up, and the group retreated.

new york city . . . lives

New study of Covid seroprevalence in New York by @florian_krammer and team; finds that 1:5 New Yorkers likely already had SARS-CoV-2 by late April and the infection fatality rate in New York City was about 0.7%. https://t.co/ekqxUuhGwv

— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) June 29, 2020

finding it hard to believe regardless

Most of the estimates of ifr I saw that were being tossed about months ago based on Asian data were in the range of 0.5% to 1%. This fits.

1 in 5 though?

1 in 6 I think, obv far more likely

1 in 5 sounds like a lot but the important thing to note is that NYC wouldn't reach the coveted 'herd immunity' status until a bit less than 4 in 5 have had it. This finding only puts 'em a quarter of the way along. So, unless a vaccine comes along, you can take the current number of deaths in NYC and multiply by about 3 to get a rough estimate of how many more would likely die on the way to herd immunity, sans vaccine.

can't believe it's been over 4 months since i've been in NYC! i can't imagine when I will be in there again for work or otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPQ16Asyoo

sorry if this is stating the obvious but there's a large difference between 1% and 20%

20% is an estimated infection rate; 1% is estimated fatality rate

got it, the post didn't specify

From the documents, here's how the city council is characterizing the supposed $1B cut to the NYPD.

The tally I've seen counts $42M in increased traffic/parking enforcement revenue as a cut, toward the $1B total pic.twitter.com/aynFiT0bJi

— Yoav Gonen (@yoavgonen) June 30, 2020

hard to imagine how diblasio coulda fucked this up worse... everybody hates him now!

oh no, our luxury Avenue is being denigrated

NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the @NYCMayor is going to paint a big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury Avenue. This will further antagonize New York’s Finest, who LOVE New York & vividly remember the....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020

that might be the Trumpiest tweet ever

hard to imagine how diblasio coulda fucked this up worse... everybody hates him now!

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, June 30, 2020 3:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yeah he's even worse than the hated milk machine

suspect something Freudian with Trump's word choice

new york's finest love new york so much they live in different counties and states.

cops LOVE this one luxury avenue

suspect something Freudian with Trump's word choice

― below the mendoza (rip van wanko), Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:25 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh fuck just saw it

"no YOURE the racist how could you think that"

subconscious maybe or Stephen Miller's handiwork? hard to imagine him ptting that much thought into these inanities but who knows

Plenty to criticize NYC cops about, choosing not to live in NYC isn't one of them

can't believe they're gonna paint a YELLOW sign on luxurious fifth avenue

Plenty to criticize NYC cops about, choosing not to live in NYC isn't one of them

all cops everywhere should be required to live in the communities they ostensibly serve, and not actively wanting to should be a disqualifier

it's hard though when complaints force your relocation to another department

given that we are now about an hour in to July 5, perhaps we can stop with the motherfucking fireworks already

4:30 AM “wake up” call. Yup, I’m up now!

https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/more-than-1300-nyc-covid-19-victims-awaiting-burial-in-freezers

https://bklyner.com/new-york-jobless-face-new-woes-with-end-of-600-pandemic-unemployment-assistance/
dunno man, they need to address this in the next two weeks or there's gonna be a citywide rent strike

Where the f is everybody? Quiet today

People think it’s going to rain? Lightweights

weather is for old people

Right?

we are old people tho

i was hoping no one would notice

weather doesn’t exist