is New York City dead?

Federal prosecutors would later refer to Belmonte as “a businessman.

non-death info for NYers with kids:
https://www.guggenheim.org/event/guggteens-night-at-the-museum

All high school students are welcome to the Guggenheim Museum for GuggTeens Night at the Museum on Friday, January 20, 2023, at 5 pm! This event is free; MetroCards and snacks will be provided. Be sure to RSVP and you will also be entered into the raffle to win prizes, such as art supplies, exhibition catalogues, and museum store giftcards. Come on your own or bring your friends!
Inspired by the exhibition Nick Cave: Forothermore, this evening’s programming will include art-making, film screenings, exploring the galleries, and more! The title of the exhibition, Forothermore, is a new word that reflects the artist Nick Cave’s lifelong commitment to creating space for those who feel marginalized by dominant society and culture—especially working-class communities and queer people of color. GuggTeens Night at the Museum will provide all participants with textiles to repurpose into art with a message, and advocate for those seen as the other.

Do high schoolers of today like Nick Cave, or even know who he is?

I think you may be unclear as to which Nick Cave we're talking about here
https://www.artnet.com/artists/nick-cave/

Guy from Wings of Desire, right?

Sorry, terrible joke even by my low standards.

GuggTeens??

Xpost wrong dude thread

hello fellow guggteens

Hmm

Two things I've noticed lately in the city: (1) since the pandemic, every fucking thing requires advance purchase of timed tickets, which is annoying, and (2) places are increasingly not letting you use their bathrooms, including the once reliable Starbucks

Wah lol

the lack of accessible public restrooms in nyc is genuinely worth complaining about, especially if you've got a GI issue or a kid or an old person or just need to piss!

xp to forks
Who knew? (everybody but me, apparently)

If you gotta go, it’s alright

it's cool, now you get to check out that Nick Cave's work! He's fuckin awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PDOpOHkDk8

Preferable to the artist version of Warren Ellis that's for sure.

https://linktr.ee/got2gonyc

guggteens

It was a miracle we got out of there alive

Is the NYC Ballet dead? Has the ABT overtaken it?

Nick Cave was exactly what we showed up before open to see only to realize it's all timed now.

That said, we wound up at Theaster Gates at New Museum which was fucking incredible. And also ate some very good tamales.

i need to see that theaster gates show

co-sign the exhibit at the new museum, it was excellent. on saturdays, there’s an organ performance, which was really moving

yeah I was sad I didn't get to see the organ performance. I walked in and saw that organ and the seven fucking leslie speakers on the wall and went up to the guard and was like "please tell me someone plays this"

The film was incredible.

"If we can talk about erectile dysfunction but not clitoral stimulation, then something is wrong," @NYCMayor says.

— Annie McDonough (@Annie_McDonough) January 17, 2023

beg your pardon

stopped clock moment

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what

That whole thread is pretty great; Adams’ randomly firing synapses spat out some real damonds.

he is extremely trumplike in many ways
probably (for better and worse) the least effective/politically engaged mayor i've seen in 20+ years here

The Sammy's Halal at madison sq has replaced the homemade garlic/cilantro/secret ingredients green sauce with fucking bottle mexican habenero hot sauce. New York City is official dead. To me at least.

Is the NYC Ballet dead? Has the ABT overtaken it?
― youn, Monday, January 16, 2023

https://www.tellmebest.com/chase-bank-shutting-down-atms/

Hmm at that url.

https://www.curbed.com/2023/01/nyc-real-estate-covid-more-apartments-higher-rent.html

good article but it feels like it wants another month’s worth of reporting on it

that's right.

it's an issue in general with New York Mag verticals reporting; you get often a sense that the budget cuts out and the piece is due, full stop.

Yeah 100% agree, conclusion is kind of incomplete/unsatisfying

when your last graf begins “Look, maybe all my suspicions are baseless” it’s probably a sign

Y'all. I sometimes have to be in LIC right at the 21st St-Queensbridge stop on the F train. There's a halal cart right across the intersection on 21st Street, and it was PHENOMENAL. The rice was spiced with actual spices! The meat was, like, actually barbecued! I don't know what to say. Get the mixed platter. Get the felafel too. And it was only $8 ($9 with felafel). Which is two bucks cheaper than the brick and mortar place across the street, which is also WORSE.

A (badass) Latina construction worker was in front of me, and an adorable skateboarding teen behind me recommended the green sauce if I wanted just a little spice (not the red sauce, on my life, I know better). NYC: We will feed you.

this is important reporting, thank you

i went to the former eisenberg's for lunch the other day, now known as S&P and run by the court street grocers people. in general i disdain fancy sandwiches but court street is very good and so is S&P! had a reasonably-sized (ie consumable by one person for lunch) pastrami sandwich and an egg cream. the interior is almost entirely preserved from the eisenberg's days and the menu is largely unreconstructed midcentury lunch counter fare--health salad, cream cheese and olive sandwiches (also very good).

anyway it feels like a recognition of changing tastes (vis a vis sourcing and thoughtful preparation) and neighborhood realities but also like a work of historical preservation, both aesthetic and culinary. it was packed so i hope its success sparks a trend.

I need try S+P, reviews have been glowing

Fly @Eagles Fly! We’re going Green and White in honor of the Eagles NFC Championship Victory. pic.twitter.com/RNiwbCIkt7

— Empire State Building (@EmpireStateBldg) January 29, 2023

i went to the former eisenberg's for lunch the other day, now known as S&P and run by the court street grocers people. in general i disdain fancy sandwiches but court street is very good and so is S&P! had a reasonably-sized (ie consumable by one person for lunch) pastrami sandwich

I had that sandwich, and the tuna melt too, both were fine, but neither good enough for me to make a point of going back.

yeah I tried reading that curbed article but gave up after about 1000 words into the USPS digression, just bad editing

dropped the kid off to go to "meet the breeds" at javits center with aunt, leaving wife and myself time to kill/enjoy by ourselves and after much debate about where to eat and trying to find somewhere open early enough that had outdoor seating I realized I didn't have to go far. We went to Kossars right below hudson yards and got bialys and bagels, then we went to Daily Provisions and got the crullers, which, if you haven't had a daily provision cruller, you have no idea just how good something can taste. Then we got lunch at Mercardo Little Spain, feeling glad to give my money to Jose Andres for all his good, rather than Eataly and Batalli.

Point is? Kossar bialy breakfast sandwich, daily provision crullers, new york is most certainly not dead. If you can afford it.

What is dead is the giant suicide machine in the center of hudson yards.