even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

xp kind of reads like a report from a hairy potter newspaper about the wondrous ingenuity of the non-magic world

"A man, clearly inebriated, urinates on my leg. In moments like these, great cities test you, discover of what mettle you're made. I smile at the man. This is my initiation. And though he know it not, he is my celebrant. 'Hark,' say I. 'May I direct you to a relief more lavatorial?' In response, the man pisses on my other leg. Ah, New York! You unruly thing!"

lol

Where do we post it when the NYT forgets that people live in public housing? When the deal with the story is that police are, supposedly, shrewdly locating their high-stakes stings of heavily-armed criminals far from innocent bystanders?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/nyregion/in-dea-sting-operations-robberies-arent-real-but-charges-are.html?_r=0

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/12/05/nyregion/STASHweb1/STASHweb1-master675.jpg

In many of the sting operations, the suspects are lured to a more remote, nonresidential area in Upper Manhattan, beneath the Henry Hudson Parkway, before federal agents and police officers close in.

Photo is looking east on 131s Street, in the midst of the construction site for Columbia's new Manhattanville campus. The image is dominated by the Manhattanville Houses, which as NYCHA reminds us, includes "1,272 apartments housing an estimated 2,756 residents." Two blocks to the north is the former Riverside Park Community complex (1976), a Mitchell-Lama scheme that shifted to market-rate in the last decade, and must also not look like a "residential area" to the NYT's captioners. It was designed to house ~1,190 families - not sure how many people are in it now. It also contains the KIPP Infinity charter school (formerly I.S. 195), serving grades five through eight. This "remote" spot is also three stubby blocks from a stop on the 1 train (prominently featured in the photo, and presumably containing only spectres and hardened adventurers who would venture as far as three-quarters of a mile north of Columbia). Bring on the machine-gun-packing crooks!

good sleuthing, doctor casino!

people are kinda everywhere in manhattan. that island is lousy with people.

I mean, it took me a second - and I've been on that block more than once! Just because I read "remote" and "Upper Manhattan" and figured it would be, like, north of Dyckman, where the 1 pops back above-ground, and there's that huge railway yard and shit. For a second I even was wondering if it was in Marble Hill and then I went "Wait...Henry Hudson Parkway? What...? OHHHhhhhhhhh" and my head started spinning.

wow

Photo was printed at a huge, half-page size, I wouldn't be surprised if they get a lot of mail about it.

i guess they get points for not using the word desolate.

The thing is, they could have turned around and gotten some warehouse/parking stuff, construction barriers, and the viaduct. It would have at least looked more like what the story was about. At some level, someone must have thought this view made things look more desolate and crime-y. >_<

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/nyregion/a-scourge-is-spreading-mtas-cure-dude-close-your-legs.html?_r=0

A new low

can't believe that's the top story on the website!

Needs to be, IMHO.

“I’m not going to cross my legs like ladies do,” he said. “I’m going to sit how I want to sit.”

Ugh.

Olof Hansson, a director of the Manhattan men’s spa John Allan’s, put it more succinctly. “A true gentleman doesn’t sit on the subway, he stands.”

Ugh.

Needs to be, IMHO.

Pretty OTM

“A true gentleman doesn’t sit on the subway, he stands.”

you're welcome, m'lady

yea, it's super annoying. it's worse on a bus (or other subways without bench-like seating) though, because there is a clear division between seats.

people are graduating from college and not living in new york, washington, and san francisco. gee

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/upshot/where-young-college-graduates-are-choosing-to-live.html

thank u city observatory, a new think tank

and facebook, for bringing this slightly dated but crucial piece of the puzzle of life to my attention

opening picture of clown zombie with balloon really helps sell the story

Ever been on a bus with an excess of polite people who don't sit, even with plenty of open seats? So all these polite people create a barrier to getting off, because they are all STANDING IN THE WAY. Which is not polite - what to do? Maybe instead sit down when there are seats, ladies and gentlemen.

triple shots all around at the Denver Chamber of Commerce tonight

Price of a maki roll of chopped fatty tuna wrapped in rice with caviar piled on each of the eight pieces: $240. I could never bring myself to order it, or two dishes filigreed with white truffles: the fried rice with mushrooms ($120) or the Ohmi beef tataki ($150). So I can’t tell you how any of them taste, but I can tell you that by the time I spotted something for less than $80, it struck me as a steal.

Amount I spent for 5.5 ounces of grilled steak raised in Australia: $78.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/dining/restaurant-review-kappo-masa-on-the-upper-east-side.html?ref=dining

i had to put that somewhere...

LOL you'd pay $10 for that steak and get a pint with it, here.

hey so no one posted the paleo bone broth article yet? i'll have to dig it up

lol. I hope you're just calling out the restaurant and not Pete Wells on that though, it's not really his fault.

Masa has been my dream meal since I read Anthony Bourdain's account in Medium Raw or the Nasty Bits or one of those, but I don't think I'd be going to the satellite locations. I'll just drop the obscene money at the real place.

no, i like pete! just the price of that fried rice...

i walked like 200 yards to work today and i could have used some bone broth at the time...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/dining/bone-broth-evolves-from-prehistoric-food-to-paleo-drink.html#

okay so the paleo bone broth wasn't too bad, making stock is fun and enhances all levels of my cooking ime. but i kind of think the fun of it is making it on your own and seeing humble ingredients simmer in a stockpot over an afternoon, it warms the house and the soul, you can see as the day passes the complexity of flavors increases. it's not something you shell out $5 for a shot of at fuckin street window. though i guess that is cool at the same time that in NY and SF you can buy a shot of bone broth at fuckin street window. good for them. boston would be more interesting if you could do that i guess

okay so the paleo bone broth wasn't too bad

meaning it wasn't too quid ag as i thought it would be. at least as paleo nytimes articles go

i was gonna ask how you liked it

Tam writes and illustrates the popular Nom Nom Paleo blog

argh

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/style/the-uproar-over-amal-clooneys-white-gloves.html

So hotly debated was Ms. Clooney’s fashion statement that it rated its own Twitter account, @msclooneygloves. Elsewhere, tweeters singled out the offending armwear as pompous or pretentious, charging that she appears to think of herself as royalty. Another joshed, perhaps accurately, “Amal wore the gloves to protect the engagement and wedding rings from prying eyes.”

speaking truth to power there, ruth la ferla

Have we talked about this?
http://www.alternet.org/media/ny-times-columnist-laments-woes-rich-kids-tells-readers-how-avoid-living-near-black-people

Holeeeeeeeee cow. Not surprised that the 1% think like that, but surprised that it slipped out in print, by accident in a major newspaper.

She and her husband treated their eight-year search for the right suburb the way she would research a value stock

Specialists in a single area don’t have much incentive to offer the warts-and-all download

Surely he doesn't really think the term is "download".

"Are the local children garden-variety pot smokers who have a little sex and a bit of angst at a reasonable age, or is something more troubling going on?"

Yeah have you see White Ribbon? Woah dude.

So amazing. "How much sex are the local children having? Does their angst start at a reasonable age?" Something troubling going on, indeed.

Could've been shortened from 43 Questions to 14 Words.

Heyooo.

Are the local children garden-variety pot smokers, or are they into the hydro shit?

If you don’t know anyone in town, find a way to invite yourself to homes of friends of friends. What are they reading? Are there any books at all? What about books for the children?

I love that one. If friends of friends of yours are living in the community, visit them and ask questions visit them specifically to gather bookshelf data.

I bet some of my neighbors own A Purpose Driven Life, The Secret, Dianetics, and a box set of Chicken Soup books - should I move?

Yes.

23 bathrooms...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/business/home-the-ultimate-investment.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news