is New York City dead?

https://gothamist.com/news/move-over-pizza-rat-heres-rat-eating-rat

“They start killing and eating each other right inside that nest,” he noted. “When things just aren’t available, and they get hungry. It’s the nearest rat that’s smaller and weaker that will be the protein.”

And if a rat colony were to take the risky step in infringing on another rodent colony’s turf—the result of an exodus from a food-depleted part of the city—expect a battle to break out.

“They will not give up that territory without a big battle,” said Corrigan, who’s personally witnessed such beefs occurring between rodents well before the coronavirus crisis. “It’s like something out of Ben-Hur.”

https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/04/17/soft-serve-defiance-ice-cream-trucks-ply-brooklyn-streets

I've been hearing the jingle!

me too, across the street

Just heard the first one 15 minutes ago

1 in 62 people in New York City have tested positive for coronavirus, 1 in 235 people in New York City have been hospitalized for coronavirus, and 1 in 582 people in New York City have died from coronavirus, according to data from the city and the US Census Bureau.

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 21, 2020

devastating numbers, what a failure of leadership

mta death count is now over 80

jesus are those tweet numbers accurate?

1 in 582 dead would be about 12,000 people. So yes.

where are the cops?

https://gothamist.com/news/ultra-orthodox-hasidic-yeshivas-classes-brooklyn-coronavirus

"I think I've been specific about it," de Blasio says when asked the specific reasons why NYC is different from other cities that have closed streets to cars.

— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) April 22, 2020

He says in California, drivers stop at intersections even when there's no light or stop sign, and they stop for people crossing mid-block. There's a different culture in NY. CA people - is this right?

— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) April 22, 2020

failure to yield to peds is ticket + points in CA (as of like 3 years ago) WHICH IS WHAT IT SHOULD BE. the difference is enforcement for whatever reason. the NYS should be fining drivers constantly.

the sad thing is this is a historic opportunity to make progress here and we're giving it up because we have an idiot mayor

It’s too bad he’s an idiot :(

yeah the thing we're absolutely having confirmed rn is that deblasio is remarkably flopsweaty in crisis

America’s Mayo

do you guys remember when this guy actually ran for president

he has neither rose nor shone

where are the cops?

https://gothamist.com/news/ultra-orthodox-hasidic-yeshivas-classes-brooklyn-coronavirus

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:16 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

driving around the park doing nothing

I once had to talk myself out of a jaywalking ticket in Los Angeles. I explained that I was from New York and only visiting L.A. for the summer and that (plus my whiteness) did the trick.

do you guys remember when this guy actually ran for president

― iatee, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:49 AM (six minutes ago)

Wow I don’t

Can we hate-read all the essays mentioned here?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stop-writing-why-i-left-new-york-pandemic-essays_n_5e9fa07bc5b6b2e5b839dcd3?28q

no one has ever had an adequate explanation for deblasio. Ever.

The guy he was running against said we should kill kittens on the subway tracks (that man was right... but!)

Can we hate-read all the essays mentioned here?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stop-writing-why-i-left-new-york-pandemic-essays_n_5e9fa07bc5b6b2e5b839dcd3?28q

― Virginia Plain, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:27 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

that mira jacob comic is just terrible. no thought of any value going on in there

all of jacob's work i've seen is not good, that is also not good

^^^^^ otm

years ago, early in bdb's administration, i had drinks with a (lefty) woman who's worked in city government for a while -- she was all like, bloomberg was a pain in the ass, but if he said something, you could be pretty sure it would happen. but even if di blasio weren't clueless, he's an absolutely shit executive

even a random half-assed political operative would have stopped the park slope Y thing years ago ffs

Sad but true

This was so good. It happens to be about a restaurant but the general sentiments apply to so many NYC scenes, like existential dread for the future but also recognizing how exhausting it was to maintain some kind of integrity even before all this... https://t.co/tWOTI15tMB pic.twitter.com/ZYwYHjrIA9

— Emily Witt (@embot) April 23, 2020

wow, yeah.

went there last year (for the first time!!)

sensational article.

yeah, the part that i read in the tweet is really great.

Important Absentee Voting Update for June 23 Election. pic.twitter.com/oSR18JqZnf

— NYCBoardOfElections (@BOENYC) April 24, 2020

I just submitted my form yesterday! This is, of course, better news.

The guy he was running against said we should kill kittens on the subway tracks

also that Bloomberg servant/bellowing horror Christine Quinn

too-literal take on the thread title
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/04/22/cemetery-races-to-keep-up-as-new-york-virus-deaths-mount

http://brooklyneagle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/AP20112021595311-scaled-e1587499694234.jpg

and tacking back to less horrific
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-liquor-stores-nyc.html

and the more predictable
https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/garbage-pickups-tell-tale-of-two-cities-as-manhattan-shrinks.html

icymi

https://gothamist.com/food/third-nyc-food-pantries-have-closed-swelling-bread-lines-during-coronavirus-lockdown

about fucking time

https://gothamist.com/news/crowded-hasidic-funeral-williamsburg-coordinated-approved-nypd

brad lander otm:
"Leading with policing to address a public health crisis is just not the answer"

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/05/01/missing-sounds-of-new-york

Socially distanced. Spiritually connected.

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) May 1, 2020

thank God Andy's too reptilian to be president, eh

Probably yeah.

don't tempt fate...

NY Review of Books has it about right:

Prior to the pandemic, his reputation was that of a top-dog machine politician par excellence—a bullying, controlling, charmless power broker, reviled by progressives, accepted by Republicans, and tolerated by the rest

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/05/14/andrew-cuomo-emergency-responder/

woof

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/nyregion/coronavirus-flowers-bodies.html