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
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 11:32 (three months ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 12:09 (three months ago) link
Yes! Oneida with their weird little crap piano thing they were hammering on iirc.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 12:12 (three months ago) link
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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 12:34 (three months ago) link
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
― calstars, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 14:30 (three months ago) link
I feel like it was closer to the water but yes basically that's it. YES THE PORK SALAD I HAD FORGOTTEN THAT.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 17:29 (three months ago) link
original location was in part of the space that became Spike Hill
― Josefa, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 17:56 (three months ago) link
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.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 18:34 (three months ago) link
ok, I'm curious: was the pork salad larb or something different?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 19:41 (three months ago) link
xp Hm. Before my time, surely. Like earlier than '94?
― Josefa, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link
Yes larb
― calstars, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:26 (three months ago) link
The bigger location when they moved around the corner on 7th was still excellent, there was that huge moving rowboat sculpture
― calstars, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link
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.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 20:40 (three months ago) link
i personally don't mind, but the level of cloudiness lately has been remarkable
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:10 (three months ago) link
my brain is dying
― ivy., Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:15 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEFdqHEubzg
― ivy., Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:16 (three months ago) link
they were fine at the time. Don't let nostalgia cloud you. Come to Queens where the thai food is.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 21:31 (three months ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 February 2024 17:46 (three months ago) link
lmao the soundtrack too funny
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 February 2024 19:40 (three months ago) link
it's wild how garbage is handled in NYC currently though
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 February 2024 19:57 (three months ago) link
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
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 3 February 2024 01:38 (three months ago) link
Haven’t been in a while
. . . largely true
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 February 2024 01:55 (three months ago) link
they jumped straight from 19th century sanitation to 21st century sanitation
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 3 February 2024 16:06 (three months ago) link
Slush crusher
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:29 (two months ago) link
lame storm
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:33 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2OuISDc.jpg
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:39 (two months ago) link
Isn't this the first snow in New York in two years or something though?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:54 (two months ago) link
Second this winter iirc
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:00 (two months ago) link
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.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:07 (two months ago) link
Post Civil War weather vibes
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:12 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/imesp9t.jpgmuch to pore over here
― calstars, Friday, 16 February 2024 23:07 (two months ago) link
Victor Borge!
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 16 February 2024 23:35 (two months ago) link
Yeah trying to figure out what year that pic is supposed to be could keep me busy theoretically forever
― O Fundo Escuro de (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 17 February 2024 01:46 (two months ago) link
‘Hook’ plus the Pepsi logos suggests 1991
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:31 (two months ago) link
But Victor Borge suggests 1983It’s impossible to pin down because it’s a compositeThat’s one of the reasons why it’s great
― O Fundo Escuro de (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:36 (two months ago) link
Borge also played Carnegie Hall in ‘88, but yeah it’s surely a fool’s errand to make this make sense.
― Josefa, Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:39 (two months ago) link
Smells of weed everywhere
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:04 (two months ago) link
otm
― O Fundo Escuro de (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:08 (two months ago) link
I’d never heard of this artist , Ken keeley, but I think he’s pretty good
― calstars, Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:34 (two months ago) link
Joe Camel’s presence is a solid vote for 1990The HoJo’s was there until 2006
― calstars, Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:35 (two months ago) link
HoJo's was on the corner iirc, not mid block. Also does anyone remember a Times Sq B&N location? I don't. It's all recognizable but slightly askew.
Yeah, not bad
― O Fundo Escuro de (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 17 February 2024 20:50 (two months ago) link
Noticed that too and I recall is that bookstores were more prevalent 35 years ago. It’s possible I guess
― calstars, Saturday, 17 February 2024 21:00 (two months ago) link
the main thing that looks off is how clean and uncluttered the bldg on the right islike someone dropped a corporate hq in times sq find myself somewhat buying into the illusion but second guessing even that mtv building has way more shit going on
― O Fundo Escuro de (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 17 February 2024 23:58 (two months ago) link
Well also the total absence of anything lascivious or low-brow? Wouldn’t there have been at least one triple-X marquee?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 18 February 2024 07:51 (two months ago) link
https://hellgatenyc.com/brooklyns-tallest-tower-radiates-pure-evil-and-i-love-it
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 23:54 (two months ago) link
What’s funny about this building is that it’s on the same block as Junior’s. So if you’re ever out and need to eat cheesecake or sit at a bar from 1982, head for the dark tower
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 23:55 (two months ago) link
And then if you want to enjoy a live show like it's 1962 go right across the street to the reborn Brooklyn Paramount and behold the dark tower from there.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 04:31 (two months ago) link
Gov. Kathy Hochul's (D-NY) response to anyone who doesn't want the National Guard or state police to search their bags on the NYC subways:"Then go home. We're not going to search you, you can say no, but you're not taking the subway." pic.twitter.com/hJ1fecGdx8— The Recount (@therecount) March 7, 2024
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 7 March 2024 20:22 (two months ago) link
“you can take a helicopter just like me”
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:37 (two months ago) link