is New York City dead?

"Have you been to that new falafel place in Queens that's 1.3 miles from where Rick Moranis was assaulted?"

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, October 9, 2020 11:10 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Moran-Eleven Never Forget

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-10-20/judge-rules-nyc-crosswalks-fail-to-protect-blind-pedestrians

🚨A federal court (SDNY, Engelmayer, J.) holds NYC in violation of fed & local law by making its crosswalks inaccessible to the vision-impaired.

"Unable to reliably locate crosswalks or time their crossing, they risk being hit by cars."

Remedy to follow.https://t.co/kyVBFse1Xh pic.twitter.com/wCXyb6Lvr3

— Greg Shill (@greg_shill) October 20, 2020

I think we all have to agree that the answer to the titular question is now "yes"

yes

Yeah more than ever

Astor Place Hair is closing. This isn't the absolute death knell, but it's gotta be damn close. They were there for over 70 years.

Oh man. Haven’t been in years but went through a phase where that was my spot.

Got my first nyc haircut there in '96. It's true, something will feel very out of whack without them down those steps.

fuck, that's the place i got my first haircut in nyc and the place where i got my last pre-covid haircut. i may well never get my hair cut in a salon again.

I remember it costing $7 for a fade. Loved that place.

There was another place not far from there, on Prince, an ancient barber shop with a stack of old Playboys on a little side table. I got my hair cut there once and when I asked the geezer who ran the place how much to pay him he kinda shrugs and goes 'whatever you think.' I think I paid him $5, he didn't complain.

$5? Hope this was in 1972

i was not a rich man at the time, what can i say.

My childhood barbershop upstate also had a stack of Playboys (on a bookshelf!). First place I ever saw one.

and they said the real old new york was dead!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-election-board.html

Gotta love it when “bungling” makes the headline

it lives!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/new-york-city-sinkhole-rats-man-falls

I like this accompanying story from May

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/25/us-city-lockdowns-rat-aggression-lack-food-waste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODDYP-b7oY

the video on that dude falling through the sidewalk is terrifying
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/10/26/bronx-sidewalk-collapse-video-greg-white/

pretty devastating story
https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/11/rip-chhapte-sherpa-russ-and-daughters.html

I feel like the mythology of NY has been built up so much over the past 20 years that even as the city craters economically, young people will still want to come here, mitigating the collapse to some extent

only if their parents subsidize the rent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlmD0yRLUKA

yow

separately/contemporaneously/from the same source (gothamist)

I love New York... pic.twitter.com/0z5uaf9iTO

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 17, 2020

I love ny

dude jumping the railing on the "i don't know and i don't care but that's my train" tip OTM

yeah that's the most nyc ever, just like "alright pizza rat, I'll jump the rail" not even mad just don't care

"no i'm not signing your fucking release, i got someplace to be"

lol at this quote:

For some Queens parking devotees, the motorist-on-motorist violence is just a preview of the NIMBY backlash expected under a citywide plan to to install a .3 mile busway along the clogged corridor between Northern Boulevard and Sanford Avenue.

"What happened yesterday is a little appetizer of what’s going to happen, but even worse," Andy Chen, a driver and activist with Asian American Community Empowerment, told Gothamist. "The [Department of Transportation] and Mayor’s Office bears responsibility for what actually happened."

ahahahaha - that sounds exactly like something someone would say on my old queens neighborhood board

dude jumping the railing on the "i don't know and i don't care but that's my train" tip OTM

― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, November 17, 2020 10:49 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Started laughing like a drain as soon as he did that--no one cares about pizza rat guy.

it's esp funny because the pizza rat guy is working SO HARD to be noticed

The governor is now standing up behind a table, screaming at reporters. Mayor is 4.5 hours late for his press conference and just confirmed our story in a tweet. Banner day for New York government.

— Eliza Shapiro (@elizashapiro) November 18, 2020

a rare resuscitation
https://nypost.com/2020/11/23/wealthy-new-yorkers-save-famous-astor-place-barbershop

Nice!

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/11/30/andrew-yang-said-to-be-considering-mayoral-bid-tested-in-new-online-poll-1338485

"couldn't be much worse" is my immediate response

100%

https://nyti.ms/39yfsia

pretty cool

Bombers doing whole cars on the M trains this week suggests NYC IS BACK BB

pics or it didn't happen

Chinatown is the best

https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/12/2/22149612/two-dozen-subway-cars-struck-in-overnight-graffiti-storm

dope

Who says ya can’t nevah go back again? :)

still lives

Here I am in the bodega buying a cup of noodles & red bull, overheard a lady yell at her phone "This year dont count that's why I fucked my best friend's man". So bodegas really aren't about the items its about the energy.

— Sydnee Washington (@Justsydnyc) December 4, 2020

can't argue with cup o noodle red bull lady