is New York City dead?

I went to Pier Platters once. Probably after it’s heyday and not long before closing though.

Walking to work this morning and noticing tons of new stores opening soon and development in the stretch of lower 5th ave between 23rd st and 14th. I work in Flatiron two days a week and this strip has had tons of vacancies for years but now seems to be filling in. Still plenty of empty office space I'm sure and this is def anecdotal, but I find it curious.

Of course Bed Bath and Beyond is gonna sit empty for a decade.

lots of tourists in that area due to the Harry Potter thing on 22nd (and the flatiron, and eataly...)

New York Magazine's "New Glut City" article: https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-office-real-estate-rechler-rxr-project-kodak.html

I work in an RXR building 2 days a week. Last week they had an ice cream social in the lobby. Free ice cream. Look what you're missing remote workers.

Same! I was in the office but didn't go.

311 is shit

311 is a joke in yo town

Second day in a row I’ve see a bee attacking a lantern fly. Go bees!

has anyone else noticed that the carroll street bridge has been out of commission for at least two years?

i moved back

$15 sandwich town

The bees are back in town
The bees are back in town

And if the bees wanna sting you better let 'em

carrol st construction will go on Forever

i actually have noticed that about the carroll street bridge

remembering now that i asked a construction worker about it early on and he said it would be done "by the fall." i guess he didn't say which fall

The fall of New York City.

Why is he like this

Mayor Eric Adams (D) opines on outdoor dining: “ ... You’re looking to date, you may drive by, you may see eye candy sitting down somewhere, you may want to park and come and slip them your number. Hey, listen, come have fun, man. Outdoor dining is the way to go.” pic.twitter.com/TqMCFWgtce

— The Recount (@therecount) August 16, 2023

The actual funniest part of that is "you may want to park" — spoken like a true cop-turned-politician who never actually has to find a place to park.

I’m trying to imagine any of our previous mayors saying that and…nope, impossible

Ed Koch never rolled that way

It's kind of funny to imagine it in Bloomberg's fussy voice.

Tom Verlaine storage locker book sale, the Arkestra (free!) and I’m pretty sure D4n selz3r dj’d this weekend. And you wanna tell me nyc is dead.

Tom Verlaine storage locker book sale, the Arkestra (free!) and I’m pretty sure D4n selz3r dj’d this weekend. And you wanna tell me nyc is dead.

yesterday i saw billy harper, eddie henderson, george cables, cecil mcbee, billy hart, david weiss, donald harrison, and 75 dollar bill for free yesterday. (my last summer licks before they impose their onerous 'congestion pricing' to keep suburban motorists like me off their sacred shores. no way would i have gotten from marcus garvey park down to bryant park in time for the 75 dollar bill set w/o wheels.)

i can vouch that ian was indeed at the tom verlaine book sale! verlaine apparently had boundless curiosity; book subjects were all over the map. he seemed to have a deep interest in china. the bookstore owner relayed a funny story jimmy ripp had told him, where the band was in china for a gig and ripp suggested staying on for a week and exploring china. verlaine nixed it and said he wanted to get back to ny, presumably so he could go to strand and buy more books about china.

Marcus Garvey to Bryant is 20 minutes by train, 25 by bike (by conservative google estimate). Can't imagine driving is faster, but I don't drive.

Verlaine books were amazingly diverse, got a book of Norwegian photography and a Gary Snyder volume.

I did dj. Fun was had by most. And my kid did a lemonade stand today. Sold out in an hour. You can’t tell me NYC is dead. Money went to Hawaii fire charity and a snake refuge(opals business partner Pete’s idea).

what kind of books about China are we talking? i'm always looking for titles i don't already have about ancient China, as well as Chinese language & cosmology, especially if they're up to date. I'm not so interested in books about modern China. Should i reach out?

Deflatormouse i think it might be worth your while checking out the verlaine sale. go early though if you can -- the line builds up, and once the garages fill with people it becomes one-in for each one out. there is one garage where each book is $5 and a nearly-adjacent garage where each book is $10. i am not sure when the next group of books go on sale.

NYC may not be dead, but when was the last time it headed into September with both the Mets and Yankees in last place?

🍻

xp I don't think that has ever happened. Perhaps the closest we've come was in 1967 when the Yankees were in 9th place out of 10 AL teams and the Mets were in 10th place out of 10 NL teams going into September. Both teams finished the season in those same places.

NYC is doomed. The migrant crisis is sinking us. People need to protest the feds. - Eric Adams paraphrased last night.
Turn the buses around. pic.twitter.com/tkIDmVUYci

— Joe Borelli (@JoeBorelliNYC) September 7, 2023

fuck these assholes

absolutely no way this includes cops

INBOX: @NYCMayor's office announces another 5% budget cut across all city agencies, citing concern about "financial disruption" from the migrant crisis.

"The administration will seek to minimize disruption to programs and services, and there will not be layoffs," City Hall says.

— Chris Sommerfeldt (@C_Sommerfeldt) September 9, 2023

I don't know if it's dead but Eric Adams definitely sucks and everybody has COVID. Be careful out there. I'm currently strongly in the testing negative but feel like death is it just the heat or allergies or tapering off lexapro too fast or just plain COVID. One friend said he felt the worst the day before testing positive so I'm trying to be careful and will test again tomorrow morning.

Tested positive.

Ugh, sorry

Sorry for the Covid and also the tapering of meds; both a real mindfuck.

I like this rain though.

I drive through it on the way to my in-laws house in Nj. They both have covid and we’re hoping my wife and kid can be spared. Want to quarantine? Try gw bridge traffic in the pouring rain for a while!

ah yes we got caught in that storm too. brutal

Are we having a fruit fly hatchout citywide or am i insane

On Long Island, but wondering the same.

Lantern fly stomp count today: 3

yall tip a capful of bleach down yr drains if you think you might have baby flies germinating in there.

I've got about 30 tomatoes in my kitchen, so I am presuming it's that combined with the warm, wet weather.

I read that just pouring boiling water down the drain is effective for fruit flies

.@NYCMayor with the robocop, which cannot make the heart with the mayor because it has no arms pic.twitter.com/vuvkmslYwz

— katie honan (@katie_honan) September 22, 2023

Yup we dead