is New York City dead?

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.

i personally don't mind, but the level of cloudiness lately has been remarkable

my brain is dying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFdqHEubzg

they were fine at the time. Don't let nostalgia cloud you. Come to Queens where the thai food is.

Here’s a demo of New York City’s new automatic side loading garbage truck lifting large on street containers. A pilot program is expanding to all of Community Board District 9 in West Harlem. pic.twitter.com/d9NmXaupOC

— Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) February 1, 2024

lmao the soundtrack too funny

it's wild how garbage is handled in NYC currently though

From what I’ve always seen the way they handle garbage in New York is they put it in bags on the sidewalk and it sits there forever

Haven’t been in a while

. . . largely true

they jumped straight from 19th century sanitation to 21st century sanitation

Slush crusher

lame storm

https://i.imgur.com/2OuISDc.jpg

Isn't this the first snow in New York in two years or something though?

Second this winter iirc

We got 1.7 inches (Central Park) on January 15-16.

In the 2022-23 cold season we only got 2.3 inches, which was the lowest total since record keeping began in 1869.

Post Civil War weather vibes

https://i.imgur.com/imesp9t.jpg
much to pore over here

Victor Borge!

Yeah trying to figure out what year that pic is supposed to be could keep me busy theoretically forever

‘Hook’ plus the Pepsi logos suggests 1991

But Victor Borge suggests 1983
It’s impossible to pin down because it’s a composite
That’s one of the reasons why it’s great

Borge also played Carnegie Hall in ‘88, but yeah it’s surely a fool’s errand to make this make sense.

Smells of weed everywhere