is New York City dead?

Are you one of those real estate agents that live out of town

Check the fine print in case the building and/or ambient wind project wants to retain IP rights to any photos or videos you take inside.

https://i.imgur.com/6V3Ebn3.jpg
Can u dig it

Not dead

“By 8 a.m. Thursday, around 10 agents could be seen standing on Ms. Suggs’s block, according to a video of the scene taken by a neighbor and viewed by The New York Times. One agent wore a light green tactical vest with the letters “F.B.I.” stamped on the back. Another official could be seen leaving the apartment with a cardboard box.

Ms. Suggs was standing on the stoop with her father as the agents searched her home, according to the neighbor, Christopher Burwell.

“Whatever it is, she must have been tricked into it, because she’s a great woman,” Mr. Burwell said. “I’ve known her all my life.””

OOH SOMEONE PLAYING TRICKSIES AGAIN

“Ms. Suggs has also registered as a lobbyist. State records indicate that the East Broadway Mall, a Chinatown real estate concern, hired Ms. Suggs, via an intermediary, to lobby the mayor’s office and the New York City Council on its behalf in 2022.”

Who knew the east broadway mall had this much stake in the game

Have spent many a pleasant afternoon in and around the East Broadway Mall

I have jury duty coming up, I hope I get put on the Adams fake Chinese donors case

Thank you to all that fight the good fight with me. NYC is irredeemable. Congratulations to .@KeithPowersNYC. The city has blindly chosen its own suicide. Jews, get out while you can. My family will be. To the Nazi machine machine that killed a great city: You are a grave…

— Brian Robinson (@VoteBrian) November 8, 2023

can anyone explain what the "nazi machine machine" is?

or maybe not

what's a brian robinson

apparently he ran for NYC city council but lost to the nazi machine machine

he was a democrat. he ran as a republican. he lost so new he's leaving.

Brian Robinson, a Republican who ran an unsuccessful campaign to represent New York City's 4th City Council district, raged against the entire city shortly after losing to incumbent Democrat Keith Powers by nearly 50 points.

https://www.rawstory.com/brian-robinson-new-york/

oh, here's the context

His opponent, newcomer and former finance business owner Robinson, cast himself as a lapsed Democrat and attempted a last-minute mudslinging campaign casting Powers as a so-called "Hamas coddler" in a widely-condemned District 4 mailer.

wow didn't know there was a hamas city council member

fucking rad moving 2 4th dist

“F.B.I. Seizes Eric Adams’s Phones as Campaign Investigation Intensifies
Days after a raid at Mr. Adams’s chief fund-raiser’s home, federal agents took the mayor’s phones and iPad, two people with knowledge of the matter said.”

This gets better and better

Dog Town and B-boys

apparently he was in a turkish rom-com movie? and the money was apparently connected to Erdogan’s kids

"Eric Adams’s Top Fund-Raiser Is Out Amid F.B.I. Scrutiny and Raid"
awww

Some really good writing in Hellgate

https://hellgatenyc.com

I subscribe. It’s good.

this is the first thing @NYCMayor said when a reporter asked how his year went yesterday pic.twitter.com/leEqTzjPKD

— Nick Garber (@nick_garber) December 18, 2023

he really really wants to be mayor during a 9/11

Hey, it worked for Giuliani ...

Maybe he’s just been getting into Laurie Anderson

Mayor Eric Adams at a town hall last week:

“I am the pilot, and you are all passengers. Pray for me to land the plane, cause there’s no parachutes on this plane, we’re all going down together.” pic.twitter.com/DuZSM5aQ1c

— sami (@hellosami) December 24, 2023

Overheard at the bar ; the place for affordable apartments these days is sunnyside

Maybe compared to Manhattan and Brooklyn but nope, not really. I mean depends on what you're idea of affordable is.

I spied a studio in rockaway on the Long Island border for $2k. How much is the same in sunnyside?

That seems nuts. I would think you can still find a studio in that range in Jackson Heights or Rego Park or Woodside or Elmhurst, have actual transit options, and not be at the end of the earth.

You would know lol

There’s one studio in sunnyside for 2100. More in the 2300 to 2500 range and up.

Woodside is more affordable if you’re lucky but there’s not a lot of openings around.

It’s not the average price, but there’s 258 studios in Manhattan right now under 2500.

That’s twice as many as there are in Brooklyn or queens.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/29/style/williamsburg-brooklyn-history-timeline.html

Enjoyed this, lot of old places called out. Was thinking the other day about Galapagos, that place was so cool

I got mugged on the way back from Galapagos one night. 4 or 5 guys dressed all in black surrounded me and at that exact instant somebody came out their front door, in the house directly next to where we were. In a moment of unduplicatable coolness I reached into my pocket for my cigarettes, shook one free from the pack, and asked the person if they had a light. As they handed me their lighter I edged out of the circle of guys in slow motion, handed the lighter back, and just kept walking, and everyone went on their way.

Oh and the kicker was that when I got back home my roommate is sitting there shaking and I'm like what's up, and he points to his neck and goes "can you see that?" There was a tiny cut on his neck. And he told a story of 4 or 5 guys dressed in black who surrounded him, pressed a knife to his throat and demanded his wallet.

Re: the article, I was at that Yeah Yeah Yeahs parking lot gig! Liars played too. I was on acid. I took some video with a camcorder. I have probably mentioned this before.

Nice to see Cafe Right Bank, Oznot's Dish, Planet Thailand shout outs. They neglect to mention the original location of Planet Thailand was not far from the Right Bank, a tiny dingy room where it was BYOB. And that they had to change their name to Plan-EAT Thailand because of a legal threat from Planet Hollywood (!)

Domsey's deserves a whole article itself. That place clothed the entire neighborhood. Remains the best thrift store I've ever been to. Multilevel. Like a paradise.

I would have maybe liked to see a focus less on the, er, commerce of the area - the article reads like a list of shops and restaurants - and focus on the personalities, the artists and weirdos who are kind of vaguely referred to but never actually talked about or interviewed

Oneida played that gig too. I was there. It was out in by Might Robot and the Twisted Ones, both of whom deserved mention. I complained about that but did later notice Monster Island was mentioned, which was a later Might Robot thing, when it first became Secret Project Robot.

Yes! Oneida with their weird little crap piano thing they were hammering on iirc.

I would have killed to be at that! YYY's are my fave and one of my old colleagues' husband is in Oneida but I've never seen them.

Yes the original location of planet Thailand was on Bedford between n 6 and 7 if I recall. They had this amazing ground pork salad

I feel like it was closer to the water but yes basically that's it. YES THE PORK SALAD I HAD FORGOTTEN THAT.

original location was in part of the space that became Spike Hill

No there was a location before that. Tiny. Like three formica tables. It was like N 1st near the water. I swear I didn’t dream this.

ok, I'm curious: was the pork salad larb or something different?

xp Hm. Before my time, surely. Like earlier than '94?

Yes larb

The bigger location when they moved around the corner on 7th was still excellent, there was that huge moving rowboat sculpture

Josefa I’ve looked around online and I guess I did dream the location. from a bit of web research it seems like it was always on Bedford, even when it was tiny. memories are hazy naturally. I went there in the summer of ‘95 and then from ‘96-‘97. i think i’m associating it with the Right Bank because i was always there in those days.