is New York City dead?

i hear detroit is still hiring

I feel like I do hear little snatches of things through my wife's artist friends and various other random people I know and it's mostly like there's no one place anymore "I hear artists are moving to [Woodhaven, Jamaica, Brownsville, East New York, Maspeth, Glendale, Mill Basin, a tiny unnamed island off the southern coast of Long Island, a barge in the Hudson river, etc.]

are there 'cool neighborhoods' anywhere in america? is there some place where it's more fun to be a 20 y/o artist than the gentrifying edges of brooklyn at the moment? I feel like some combination of 'the internet' + all dense urban areas getting expensive/safer/'normal' in past decades has made this idea a bit archaic.

Young people are moving to the woods

not exactly what Thoreau had in mind

Thoreau was a piece of shit so

uh oh dint know Thoreau was cancelled

NYU owned a lot less of the EV when I was there, eg nothing on Ave B which was a hellscape.

Love any excuse to foist this essay on ppl https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/pond-scum

Livingston Manor is the new Williamsburg.

As my stepdad would say , “Livingstink Manure”

Rockaways seem pretty low key

until you get targeted for fare evasion cssny.org/news/entry/mta-false-fare-evasion-narrative-data

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nooks-and-corners-of-old-new-york

https://whitney.org/artport-commissions/new-york-apartment/

haha wow

Mayor de Blasio is indeed here at the Park Slope YMCA this morning. Passers by have commented negatively. One called him an idot. pic.twitter.com/FIgEmlf4Gf

— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) March 16, 2020

what an idiot

indeed

do we need a separate NYC thread for our unique challenges? (if there are some)

anyway we have takeout cocktails now

https://gothamist.com/food/cuomo-announces-bars-restaurants-can-sell-go-cocktails-during-coronavirus-shutdown

lmao jesus christ

i mean good for the bars but just wild to me

I love that New York still has it’s expensive whimsies that don’t actually affect me

They should call it The Turkey's Nest Rule.

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

i mean who hasn't filled up a travel mug with booze and wandered the streets

I walked into deepest Boro Park to reach the nearest Cap1t4l One ATM (cuz yes, that's how cheap I am re fees). Still 100% Orthodox residents with 100% Latino manual labor.

PSA to new yorkers who will be ordering delivery due to the new restaurant closure (from me, a part time delivery worker) delivery workers are extremely vulnerable right now. please be considerate. here are some things you can do

— wash hands. wear mask. stay home (@wilfredchan) March 16, 2020

deBlasio was making noise about a possible future quarantining of the city

Cuomo replied that only he can do that, and he has no plans to

boy howdy

maybe they'll fight to the death

rebuild the economy with pay-per-view fights between politicians. two chairs and one weapon each.

they really should quarantine. Too many people need to be given direct instructions.

that'd be bad for me, as I don't know if im bugging out of town yet or not

yeah, I actually invited two friends of mine to come here to stay and then the next day they closed the border.

or rather they made the announcement that they would be closing the border. You would have time at least to make a decision if they announced it.

De Blasio saying a shelter in place order could come within the next 48 hours per gothamist

shit is getting real: alternate-side parking regulations have been suspended for the next week

They’re not sweeping the street, it begins

local bodega sold me five rolls of toilet paper without so much as a wink. they were out of tamales though. sometimes walk around the neighborhood fixes a lot of agit.

i'm not worried as much about 'shelter in place' as I am the risk of going anywhere even for authorized purposes, in my immunocompromised class.

"shelter in place" is a terrible name for what the order actually means, at least the bay area version is. it's basically an enforced version of social distancing norms (essential businesses remain open, you can leave your apartment but can't congregate in groups, etc.)

of course, it has a name that immediately induces panic and thoughts like "oh god, is my apartment even shelter enough?"

Have I said I had no use for it but RIP anyway yet?

Here's hoping all this rain will wash the coronavirus away.

Like Night of the Comet.

JUST IN: MTA buses will be backdoor-only starting Monday, with exceptions for disabled riders. On local buses, that means no more fare collection.

— David J. Meyer (@dahvnyc) March 20, 2020

deBlasio released 23 ppl from Rikers

alleged progressive heroes @NYCMayor & @NYGovCuomo are leaving thousands to rot in NY state and city prisons and jails despite scores of experts calling for mass release of prisoners, namely those (1) w/ underlying conditions (2) over 50 (3) w/ less than a year on their sentence https://t.co/6aIcBNlB1L

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) March 22, 2020

NYT top headline is the high COVID 'attack rate' in the NY metro region

also an article explaining why the reason new york has been hit hard is its density, which article does not mention singapore or hong kong.

also doesn't mention that density varies throughout the five boroughs yet they seem to have roughly the same infections per capita (staten island slightly ahead)

not fair, I've met a bunch of Staten Islanders who aren't dense