I think we all have to agree that the answer to the titular question is now "yes"
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
yes
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah more than ever
― (β’Μͺβ) (carne asada), Thursday, 22 October 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 24 October 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
Oh man. Havenβt been in years but went through a phase where that was my spot.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 24 October 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
Got my first nyc haircut there in '96. It's true, something will feel very out of whack without them down those steps.
― Josefa, Saturday, 24 October 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 25 October 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link
I remember it costing $7 for a fade. Loved that place.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 October 2020 09:28 (three years ago) link
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.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 October 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
$5? Hope this was in 1972
― calstars, Sunday, 25 October 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
i was not a rich man at the time, what can i say.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 October 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
My childhood barbershop upstate also had a stack of Playboys (on a bookshelf!). First place I ever saw one.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 26 October 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
and they said the real old new york was dead!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-election-board.html
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 26 October 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
Gotta love it when βbunglingβ makes the headline
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
it lives!https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/new-york-city-sinkhole-rats-man-falls
― mizzell, Friday, 30 October 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
I like this accompanying story from May
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/25/us-city-lockdowns-rat-aggression-lack-food-waste
― calstars, Friday, 30 October 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODDYP-b7oY
― peace, man, Friday, 30 October 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
the video on that dude falling through the sidewalk is terrifying https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/10/26/bronx-sidewalk-collapse-video-greg-white/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 30 October 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
pretty devastating storyhttps://www.grubstreet.com/2020/11/rip-chhapte-sherpa-russ-and-daughters.html
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
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
― calstars, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
only if their parents subsidize the rent
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 November 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlmD0yRLUKA
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
yow
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
separately/contemporaneously/from the same source (gothamist)
I love New York... pic.twitter.com/0z5uaf9iTO— Rex ChapmanππΌ (@RexChapman) November 17, 2020
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
I love ny
― calstars, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
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, 17 November 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
yeah that's the most nyc ever, just like "alright pizza rat, I'll jump the rail" not even mad just don't care
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
"no i'm not signing your fucking release, i got someplace to be"
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
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 whatβs going to happen, but even worse," Andy Chen, a driver and activist with Asian American Community Empowerment, told Gothamist. "The [Department of Transportation] and Mayorβs Office bears responsibility for what actually happened."
"What happened yesterday is a little appetizer of whatβs going to happen, but even worse," Andy Chen, a driver and activist with Asian American Community Empowerment, told Gothamist. "The [Department of Transportation] and Mayorβs Office bears responsibility for what actually happened."
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
ahahahaha - that sounds exactly like something someone would say on my old queens neighborhood board
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link
β 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.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
it's esp funny because the pizza rat guy is working SO HARD to be noticed
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
a rare resuscitation https://nypost.com/2020/11/23/wealthy-new-yorkers-save-famous-astor-place-barbershop
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Nice!
― calstars, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
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
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
"couldn't be much worse" is my immediate response
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
100%
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 30 November 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
https://nyti.ms/39yfsia
pretty cool
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 3 December 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Bombers doing whole cars on the M trains this week suggests NYC IS BACK BB
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
pics or it didn't happen
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
Chinatown is the best
― calstars, Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/12/2/22149612/two-dozen-subway-cars-struck-in-overnight-graffiti-storm
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 December 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
dope
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
Who says ya canβt nevah go back again? :)
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 December 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
can't argue with cup o noodle red bull lady
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
Middle Collegiate Church has a history that dates back to 1628 β this morning as a result of a fire in a neighboring building that was vacant, the church is no more. pic.twitter.com/NK2qXC0fVO— ππ²π₯ππ¬ π. ππ’π₯π₯ππ« (@MylesMill) December 5, 2020
― (β’Μͺβ) (carne asada), Saturday, 5 December 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
https://awrycomics.com/im-in-new-york/
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 December 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/nyregion/nyc-residential-parking.html
ban cars iirc
― (β’Μͺβ) (carne asada), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link