I know a guy who pays $200 a month in kensington (w/ roommates, but still.) sucks that hipsters are gonna price you out of brooklyn, cause yeah, even the lower half of the borough is ridiculously overpriced for the most part. but again, until it's unaffordable to live in queens, the bronx and the path-y parts of jersey, it's hard to accept the argument "I can't afford to live here." there are literally millions of lower-income people who manage to pay their rent.
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean here in Brooklyn, where all my friends are (in other neighborhoods).
anyway:
http://www.salon.com/news/michael_bloomberg/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/12/28/bloomberg_christie_snow
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 December 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
haa did christie even have a reputation for effectiveness, i thought he just ate sandwiches and yelled at people
― ice cr?m, Friday, 31 December 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
he is also #1 SPRINGSTEEN FAN 4EVA
― Auld Future Wolf Lang Syne Them All (donna rouge), Friday, 31 December 2010 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I want springsteen to write a song about the arc tunnel
― iatee, Friday, 31 December 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.r8ny.com/blog/larry_littlefield
this guy has a good blog and the best take on the situation I've read. nate silver's is okay but also kinda ridiculous.
― iatee, Friday, 31 December 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
silver obvs enjoyed putting his together v much
― ice cr?m, Friday, 31 December 2010 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly
― iatee, Friday, 31 December 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/nyregion/30ride.html?_r=1
― iatee, Monday, 3 January 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think you've ever given a moment's thought to what it might actually take to govern a city
"Kool-Aid drinker who accepts that a city must be minimally governed for the workers so the millionaires and tourists can be prioritized."
Um, maybe more like guy whose family lived in NYC for a couple of generations and experienced what it was like for "the workers" in prior decades (dad lost public school teaching job, aunt got mugged several times, etc.)
Yeah it sucks that NYC is so expensive now and I don't like banks and starbucks on every corner and russian tourists knocking me over because I stand in between them and century 21 either, but there are tradeoffs and cities need some kind of tax base. Bloomberg has been much better at prioritizing affordable housing policy than Giuliani was, fwiw. I know he's cozy with the finance industry but you also can't blame him for macroeconomic trends, the return of the rich to cities, etc.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
can I blame him for making a mealymouthed "It Gets Better" video 2 days after cutting the hell out of homeless youth programs?
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/01/michael-bloomberg-it-gets-better.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
joshrobin Josh Robin Whoa. Bloomy tries to end snow presser with "I think we've had enough." Ignores shouted questions.19 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
joshrobin Josh Robin Mayor still won't say where he was 12/25 -- "I have a right to a private life."24 minutes ago
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― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
this guy
he's a 1-3 incher alright
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
boom
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
dr morbius, the man with a phd in mayoral dick jokes
hi5s
― Z-Ro Price (m bison), Friday, 7 January 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
apology from a flunky!
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-10/bloomberg-aide-apologizes-for-mistakes-in-blizzard.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lol you still aren't over this? cars couldn't drive for 2 days, boo hoo, end of the world
― iatee, Monday, 10 January 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't own a car, so wtf u talkin bout
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
right me neither, which is why roads not getting plowed didn't really ruin my day
― iatee, Monday, 10 January 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
could you get out of your 'hood by train? I couldn't, for 2 days.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the 7 was running. but the subway problems weren't Bloomberg's fault.
― iatee, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
:p
WALKING to the subway (or the supermarket) might've been helped by plowing too.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ime plowing just built up huge snow barriers at the crosswalks, was easier to get around before the plows. and I mean regardless, it would take an army to clear the sidewalks for all of NYC after the blizzard.
I mean admittedly I have a distorted POV where anything that makes it harder to drive a private vehicle is basically good for NYC.
― iatee, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Morbs, the MTA is actually not under Bloomberg's control. I mean that's one area where you really can't lay the blame at his feet.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
mostly just surprised that morbs is willing to let his pure hatred for bloomberg overwhelm the fact that this was a ny post-esque 'controversy' - gee, a giant blizzard slightly inconveniences the privileged minority of new yorkers who think that getting their driveway plowed should be the one and only city priority. and many of whom, by choosing to drive during the storm, helped make things worse. this is not quite hurricane katrina.
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
iatee i feel like as a total n00b you should know the thing that pisses people off so bad abt the snowocalypse is its indicative of bloombergs distain for all people who are not bloomberg - and you know it is the citys job to remove the snow - pretending that its no big deal that it didnt get moved for three days isnt gonna change the fact that it was a major dereliction of duty
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah except I see little evidence that it happened because he had disdain for people (which is why I would have done it fwiw) and significant evidence that it happened because there was a much bigger than anticipated blizzard that surprised everybody including weather forecasters
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
and icy maybe it's easier to take when you're not a n00b but people in this city have such an epic sense of self-entitlement...only place in america where 'my driveway didn't get plowed!' has merit as a national news story. average new yorker is incredibly shitty at taking the smallest inconvenience and I find this more disgusting on a day-to-day basis than I find the bumbling wannabe technocrat mayor.
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
how fucking long have you lived here?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
(my God, the length of my ILX shitlist these days)
a much bigger than anticipated blizzard
last February's was bigger btw
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
haha the ultimate ny dick measuring contest xp
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I need to get the hell out of here and leave the place to the likes of you and the revered tourists who are going to Spiderman
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:39 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i was in New York just before Christmas for the first time in many months and i was impressed by how shitty everything still is - the appearance of the subway stations, the broken moving sidewalks in JFK, just everything. people like to talk about how different NYC is from the bad old days of the 70s and early 80s, but that old broken badness never really went away, it just got a few coats of expensive veneer painted over it, so the upper crust never had to really notice
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
also, is NYC really the greenest city in America???? that is a sad comment if so! tell it to bed-stuy!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
greenest in that it produces by far the least emissions per capita, not cause it's clean or particularly healthy to live in
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
ahhhhh i see
the number of parks within walking distance of any random spot you might choose, for instance, is like :(
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
really iatee, I'm relieved to know that the old rapid snow-cleanup schedule was a gratuitous indulgence on behalf of the arrogant.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeahhhh queens is esp grim on that measure xp
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
― iatee, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:02 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is absolutely wrong btw
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
the forecasts were for like a foot + of snow - every other time that amount has been predicted a snow emergency it declared before hand and the streets are cleared - this time bloomberg who will literally not say where he was because he was in bermuda did not do that and the result was a a shut down city for three days and trash piled up for a week - yr idea that demanding the city do its job is some sort of entitlement is plainly inane
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
and just review the timeline of the media trying to pry an apology out of this fucker if you dont think hes disdainful of the v people he governs
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
basically iatee's POV is that for paying taxes we are entitled to a good screwing.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
stop complaining and put on yr boots its not the billionaires fault ok
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.r8ny.com/blog/larry_littlefield/a_surprisingly_severe_storm.html
So I went through the archived "Forecast Discussion" from the NWS, and found the following. As late as Christmas Eve, the storm was expected to basically miss most of the NY metro, excluding eastern Long Island and Connecticut. On Christmas morning, the possibility of a 6 to 9 inch snowstorm was forecast, and a “Winter Storm Watch” was issued. Someone should have been watching, because Christmas afternoon it was suddenly upgraded to a “Blizzard Warning.” It was still expected to be a powerful but not devastating storm in NYC until just after noon on Sunday, the day the storm hit, when the snow accumulation totals were updated. Bottom line: this storm put out more fakes than Michael Vick, so it is no surprise that a stunned city and MTA shanked a punt to Desean Jackson. The four “Forecast Discussions” follow in full: bold and italics were added by me. If you bore easily, just read those parts.
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
so it wasnt clear it was going to be a big storm until a little before it hit, and no one noticed because it was christmas, OK YOURE ALL OFF THE HOOK ITS CHRISTMAS
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
NBD CHRISTMAS
I lolled at the press conference that Monday morning where we was all proud that there was hot chocolate at the parks for the kids
― Aerosol, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link