is New York City dead?

I agree. Goodbye and good riddance to the daily commute. I wonder how it will reshape Manhattan though, especially Midtown and the Financial District. Maybe it will be possible to find a good, reasonably priced restaurant for dinner in Midtown again.

― o. nate, Monday, March 29, 2021 9:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

As much as I don't like midtown and FiDi, it's hard for me to imagine things not getting bad in those areas in the short to medium term, like I just don't see how you quickly repurpose that much office space, and I don't see how you get enough traffic into those areas to support businesses without the office space.

without that office space being occupied I mean, obv

This can of beer and a large paper coffee cup, please

I agree. Goodbye and good riddance to the daily commute. I wonder how it will reshape Manhattan though, especially Midtown and the Financial District. Maybe it will be possible to find a good, reasonably priced restaurant for dinner in Midtown again.

The New York state legislature formally voted to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana for adults and expunge the records of people previously convicted of possession.

make it the new W33d District

Hamsterdam

New Hamsterdam

happy legal weed day

No more Pyramid Club.

First NYC bar I ever set foot in. It was that and Babyland down Avenue A the same night.

Places I thought were already .....

Yeah I probably should have dropped in there at some point in the past 20 years. See what happens.

get out there and drop dem tens

We went once, sometime in the past 6ish years, out of nostalgia. It was the classic 80s night and it was a bit like a theme park in a sad way.

walked around chelsea for a half hour today, it's fucking bleak out there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/nyregion/nyc-population-pandemic-recovery.html

many VAX avail at Javitz apparently (1030AM, Friday 4/2)

There has been temporary dislocation, but I think it’s mostly a phenomenon among people who have the resources to move. If you ask me what the real threat to the city is, I will tell you the real threat is that we stop attracting immigrants.

BOOMING POST

yup

I was around Union Square area briefly today -- first time back in the city in some months -- and it certainly did not feel dead. Maybe slightly less bustling than before but even that is pretty bustling by the standards of anywhere else.

Did not feel like I had missed Manhattan atmosphere, but had a couple slices of Joe's pizza and certainly did miss that.

ffs

What a perfectly normal, functional city we have here. https://t.co/CpHJvfJY1X pic.twitter.com/PbQS2e8Gq9

— Chris 😷'Leary (@ohhleary) April 20, 2021

I don't get it, why would undercover cops be getting rid of OpenStreets barriers? They don't seem like the most likely suspect at all to me?

seems v plausible to me - cops love cars, love driving, and are aligned politically with reactionary car drivers who view Open Streets, like bike lanes etc., as illegitimate namby-pamby uses of space which could instead be devoted to driving as fast as possible at all times. so if they have secret fake amazon vans and an attitude of total impunity to rules/oversight/procedure, why not use the vans to destroy the Open Streets?

idk, it makes as much sense as a non-cop with similar beliefs and a fake (or legitimate!) Amazon van doing the same thing.

Cops know they’re gonna get away with it whereas amazon employees would absolutely get sold out by the mothership if there was a hint of bad press. And now there is regardless if amazon is letting the NYPD clone their vehicles for surveillance purposes xp

oh well if the argument is "it's probably an off-duty cop just acting on his own" well then sure no doubt, I thought they were saying this was an actual NYPD operation

If a cop does it does it matter if its official or not

i think the idea is that it might be an actual NYPD operation to have fake Amazon vans (nobody knows, because there is no meaningful oversight of this thug agency), and officers might choose to use that resource to carry this out. agreed with Jimmy the Mod, whether that's done off duty or not would be effectively meaningless.

dudes who wear sandals on the street, what are you thinking? You’re in LA?

i think i'm going to the bodega but if you catch me more than two blocks from my house, please feel free to heckle

“You look like an idiot”
I don’t know how else to say it

Wow New York sounds harsh, relax

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-photographers-view-from-inside-a-brooklyn-junior-high
http://media.newyorker.com/photos/608717a08f675fab920cdbf3/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/Meisler-Bushwick-13.jpg

Excellent !

Wow, I love that.

the photo essay I mean, not the statement that Mrs Miester is a Bitch. No opinion on that one.

you mean "bicth"

clearly says eicth

MC Eicth from Brooklyn's Most Wanted

https://www.stereogum.com/2147135/rough-trade-nyc-moving-to-rockefeller-center/news/

Huh?

Wow!

Ok…

Their poor staff

Great location actually, catch those tourist dollars snapping up them one direction LPs and such

I used to work right there, on 52nd Street, and would sometimes shop at the Coconuts which for all I know was in the exact same location, but I didn't feel great about it.

Held me over until Other Music opened, I guess.

I found this in Wikipedia, under 1290 Avenue of the Americas, which I guess is a block up from the new Rough Trade, on 51st.

Back in the 1990s, when I was based in New York City, this was a location of Coconuts. And on 21 November 1994, Mariah Carey was here to do a meet-and-greet to sign her then-new Christmas release, Merry Christmas. A key single from that album, "All I Want for Christmas Is You," went on to become the most popular Christmas song ever.

On that day, I was right here. The bank lobby to the right was the store entrance, and this ATM lobby was where Mariah would have sat at a desk to meet with the fans. Out where I am on the sidewalk was where the line was - circling the entire block. After a 12-hour wait, I managed to say hello, and have a chat. (The meet-and-greet ran only two hours, 5PM to 7PM. I had arrived at dawn to line up.)

This event marked my first-ever meeting with my favorite celebrity. I would not have another celebrity meeting until 2006.

citation needed

Heh. Let’s see if this works:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1290_Avenue_of_the_Americas_(formerly_Coconuts_record_store);_site_of_the_historic_1994_meeting_between_Mariah_Carey_and_yours_truly_(7231532572).jpg

DO U SEE?

Lol at coconuts
I think I bought the stones “flashpoint” at the location on 6th ave and 8 st.

Thanks. Have they ever been mentioned in an RIP Brick and Mortar Record Store thread before, I wonder.

i assume part of the reason for this is that the rent on 2000 sq ft of commercial space in midtown manhattan is <<<<< the rent on 10000 sq ft in williamsburg. it might even be less than the rent on 2000 sq ft in williamsburg.