is New York City dead?

oh god.

made it about 10 tweets through that thread before closing my laptop in anger

I honestly don't understand the commotion about RCV. I thought it was obvious and easy to navigate. Yes I know everyone says it will be harder for "the elderly" which I'm sure that's true for some but there are mentally alert elderly people too. What I *do* know is that elected officials who had been in office for multiple terms and had budgets for community outreach DIDN'T DO COMMUNITY EDUCATION early enough, probably because some of them were trying to stop it from happening.

oof

Eric Adams: 50.5

Kathryn Garcia: 49.5

--Fin--https://t.co/qGzrF0xeVf

— David Freedlander (@freedlander) July 6, 2021

Looks like Wiley's votes went 2-to-1 to Garcia, but still wasn't enough.

Very annoying

That's an 8400-vote margin with 139,459 inactive ballots. Dammit.

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) July 6, 2021

New York has had a Black mayor. New York has never had a female mayor. This is a much closer result than I expected.

Yuck

bleahhh.

So you think there is a way to use stop-and-frisk that isn’t abusive?

Well, there’s a word that’s missing in there. It’s called stop, question, and frisk. So 2 o’clock in the morning, you look out your door, you see a person standing in front of your house. He places a gun in his waistband. You go to call the police, I hope. That police officer responds. He needs to be able to question that person, “What are you doing with that gun?” If we’re telling police officers you can’t question people, we are jeopardizing the safety of the city. Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there’s reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm. That’s not what we were doing. We were stopping and frisking people based on their ethnicities and based on the communities they were in. That will never happen under my administration.

Greeeeat

What a dumb answer. That's actually responding to a call, it doesn't have anything to do with stop-and-frisk, and the only reason to say it in response to that question is to avoid saying you're against stop-and-frisk.

"Obviously we should be able to STOP someone who just fired gunshots and then FRISK them to see if they have a gun! So therefore I don't think we should completely end stop-and-frisk!"

"stop, question, and frisk" = it's fine to stop and frisk someone as long as you interrogate them also

Which, i mean, they always do anyway

he was vocally against stop-and-frisk earlier in his career, maybe this'll be one of the many campaign promises he breaks en route to tammany hall 2021

Shahana Hanif, the councilperson i voted for appears to have won.
https://www.shahanafrombk.com
Lander and Williams seem to have won handily as well.
Adams seems a putz but generally the voting at the borough and district level seems progressive and positive. i have hope.

Eric Adams dined this evening at Rao’s with John Catsimatidis and Bo Dietl pic.twitter.com/bV0LPiPQc5

— David Freedlander (@freedlander) July 9, 2021

I read that for a moment as Eric Adams died this evening

This guy is not good.

don't panic, he was just trying to negotiate a way to get vinyl back on hbo

That show is not good.

does kinda seem like a show that eric adams would like, though

I should watch one episode of that now that I have HBO Max. Just to see if it's really as bad as people say. (I already hate most "prestige TV," so I'll likely hate it even more than other people did, but my morbid curiosity is strong.)

People on Twitter are eulogizing the Astor Place Kmart. It never meant anything to me but apparently it was a very weird Kmart and people liked to rendezvous there before going out on the town.

Lovely eulogy (from 2018, slightly premature) by ILM's own AlexInNYC:

Once upon at time, Kmart stood out like a cow pie on a prayer rug. Now it’s basically just a field of cow-pies, to use an incongruously rural analogy.

https://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2018/01/sunset-on-the-astor-place-kmart-.html

it was a weirdass kmart and everytime i went in there it felt like entering a retail tardis

Alex otm, mosly. RIP. I didn't live down there but didn't mind it, occasionally had a need to go in there and enjoyed seeing it from the subway platform.

Ha, forks.

My only time there was Christmas shopping with my wife and looking for legos for someone. Let's just say I've seen swap meets in rural PA with a less discarded and depressed vibe.

It was the NYU Kmart obv.

All hail this king with the 40-foot RV, small car in tow, camping out on my block this week. He parked here after street cleaning on Monday. If NYC is going to give away public land for free, long-term car storage, people may as well turn it into affordable housing. pic.twitter.com/SViFC9GGBz

— Aaron Naparstek (@Naparstek) July 13, 2021

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/the-bqe-is-covered-in-peppers-seek-alternate-routes/3174959

Yeah we’re running it a little bit hot tonight
I can barely see the road from the habanero comin off of it

Another suicide at the vessel https://www.audacy.com/1010wins/news/local/teen-boy-dies-after-jumping-from-vessel-at-hudson-yards

Oh no

Ugh

close that thing down wtf

what a completely horrible addition to the city that place has been. Who would have thought?

The mall itself is beautiful but have never really taken to the vessel. Looks like a high school notebook doodle gone awry

Not NYC but Governor Cuomo is going down! good riddance to that jerk, always hated his BS tough guy energy.

Good

Fantastic if true.

I don't literally mean if it's true, of course it's true, I mean I don't want to underestimate his wiggling out of things power.

honestly think requiring vaccines to go to the gym will move the needle the most

BREAKING: NYC to require screening for vaccination for entry to bars, nightclubs, restaurants, gyms etc. Will take effect in Sept.

This is a critical measure to slow the rapid spread of Delta here, and to incentivize vaccination.https://t.co/QIWoRu2gGj

— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) August 3, 2021

Re cuomo: ah well nevertheless

yeah this seems possible, but who knows

Gavin Newsom is gonna get replaced by a guy who wins with 11% of the vote because every boat dealer in Orange County voted for him and Andrew Cuomo is still going to be the Governor of New York in 2055

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) August 3, 2021

Wow, that response from Cuomo is borderline psychopathic. He's not stepping down at all.

Vaccination screening only starts in September? Waiting a month seems like a long time

eat shit cuomo