So is Bloomberg the most competent administrator of the last 30 years, on a level of just seeming like a guy who can plausibly run a big operation? (Recognizing that he also had supervillain tendencies.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 February 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
his supervillain tendencies often worked in his favoradams is a disaster waiting to happen
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 February 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link
honestly yes. Bloomberg was a good administrator. I think a lot of why things weren't even worse under DeBlasio was that he was just able to coast on the structures set up by Bloomberg for a while, and the economy was good.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 February 2022 23:04 (two years ago) link
adams is going to be president or end up in jail
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 11 February 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
adams is going to be president or and end up in jail
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 12 February 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
https://www.bkmag.com/2022/02/17/threes-brewing-vaccine-mandate/
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
I didn't know that Lancelotti on Avenue A closed down for good. I bought a lotti cool housewares there over the years. Lancelotti, 1996-2021.
― Josefa, Friday, 18 February 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
does Wholesale Liquidators still exist? on Lafayette?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 February 2022 10:16 (two years ago) link
Lol I haven’t thought about that place in forever It’s gone
― calstars, Friday, 18 February 2022 11:50 (two years ago) link
New York City Plans to Stop Homeless People From Sheltering on Subways
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/nyregion/homeless-people-subway-trains-mta.html
Not sure how much effect this will have, but I guess Adams needed to do something about deteriorating subway conditions.
― o. nate, Friday, 18 February 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link
I play empty subway car lottery about once a weekThis week it was a couple of dead pigeons on the floor
― calstars, Friday, 18 February 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
glad to hear that the city is going to be giving all of these people places to live
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 18 February 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
Hotel rooms are waiting
― calstars, Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link
Can’t wait for the NIMBY protests
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:45 (two years ago) link
i share the common trepidation that this amounts to kicking people who have no resources and mental health issues out onto the street in the middle of the winter. otoh, dude who shit himself and has forced everyone out of his car is fucking up everyone else's life too, so something's gotta give.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 February 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
MIDTOWN!!!!! IS!!!!! BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/fZx2PSnzmC— Rachel Seville Tashjian (@theprophetpizza) March 1, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
Those privately-owned public spaces (POPS) provided in the ground floor of office buildings are always kind of weird. Kind of a glorified lobby with some seating. I guess its just a place to hang out if you need to kill some time and don't want to pay for coffee at Starbucks. Except they usually don't have restrooms, so thats a minus.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
Sad lol
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
“This place called black rock” uhh
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
There's one, maybe that one?, that largely functions as a pass-through between two streets in the middle of the block. :D
xp lol yeah
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
Oh great now that I've watched that video B**** R*** promotional reels are in my Twitter feed. Fucking life.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link
There's one, maybe that one?, that largely functions as a pass-through between two streets in the middle of the block. :Dxp lol yeah
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:44 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/nyregion/nyc-raised-crosswalks-traffic-deaths.html
surprised to see this coming from adams tbh
― éľś, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
Street-activist social media generally had positive rumblings when Ydanis Rodriquez got tapped for DOT, so I'm guessing maybe this is coming from him? 100 crosswalks a year doesn't really sound like a lot tbh, but every single one will slow down cars and potentially save lives.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:27 (two years ago) link
overall i would prefer a much more radical war-on-cars strategy. but absolutely anything to slow the cars down is a win imho. the couple in Glendale who are referenced and quoted in the article are friends of mine and they went through absolute hell last year.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
artisanal caltrops imo
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 18:00 (two years ago) link
I like the proposal. Seems like a no brainer
― calstars, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
Sorry for the "serious" Q, but are there any good pieces out there, maybe longform/thinkpiece, on the future of NYC in light of the likelihood that offices may never go back to full-capacity and at least aren't in the near future? Like on the economic/RE/business impacts of that and how they affect the city, its tax base, its services, restaurants, entertainment, transit, etc?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
Loud sex is ruining hundreds of New Yorkers’ lives, 311 reports show
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
A person in Queens said a neighbor was “shouting loudly that he is a sexual-tyrannosaurus.”
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
Seems fun
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
didn't realize you'd moved to queens
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
I'm loling at the thought that it was just someone singing along to T-Rex.
― removing bookmarks never felt so good (PBKR), Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
311 is a joke
― calstars, Thursday, 3 March 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
Picturing an extremely short-armed dude fucking now, thx
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 3 March 2022 23:25 (two years ago) link
Jesse Ventura's character in predator refers to himself as a sexual tyrannosaurus
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 March 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
yikeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/nyregion/brooklyn-woman-dismembered-body-shopping-cart.html
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 March 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
https://nypost.com/2022/03/03/nyc-sees-deadliest-february-for-car-crashes-as-red-light-running-spikes/
― éľś, Saturday, 5 March 2022 00:00 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kISETnL.pngThe fuck? Some jerkoff politician is getting a new wing on his house with blood money from people dying
― calstars, Saturday, 5 March 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
Has anyone seen a good explanation for why NYC rents are still so high? I just saw that offices are still only at like 30% capacity, so you’d get the impression that a lot of office workers would be leaving or would have left the city altogether.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:30 (two years ago) link
Not even “still” so high. Skyrocketing.
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:32 (two years ago) link
Right. Like how can it be that there’s no change in demand for NYC apartments?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:39 (two years ago) link
Or increased demand
my yuppie landlords (there was a nytimes "the hunt" quiddities piece about them buying the building i live in) are moving and want to rent their unit--a 1br lightly renovated in a highly joanna gainesish way--for $3300! in RIDGEWOOD!
― adam, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:20 (two years ago) link
Office workers left the city when the pandemic started. A lot of them probably moved back. Happy to not have to work/commute in manhattan, but still happy to live in the outer boroughs, and manhattan. It's all the office buildings in manhattan that are empty. They need to start converting them to apartments.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:47 (two years ago) link
"a 1br lightly renovated in a highly joanna gainesish way--for $3300! in RIDGEWOOD!"
I've gotten used to saying this over and over again for the last 20 years when it comes to NYC rents/neighborhoods further and further out becoming expensive, but holy fucking shit.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link
Giant investment firms/hedge funds still own almost all property and would rather let apartments go empty than lower the rent. (They can stomach years of losses - hell, it's already baked into the tax code so they can write it off as soon as they own the building.) There is my conspiracy theory.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
That theory at least seems to make sense to my untrained mind
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link
Making New York Possible, is his banner title - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CashJordan
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 14:14 (two years ago) link
Damn, sry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW0mFzaMOto