is New York City dead?

I should watch one episode of that now that I have HBO Max. Just to see if it's really as bad as people say. (I already hate most "prestige TV," so I'll likely hate it even more than other people did, but my morbid curiosity is strong.)

People on Twitter are eulogizing the Astor Place Kmart. It never meant anything to me but apparently it was a very weird Kmart and people liked to rendezvous there before going out on the town.

Lovely eulogy (from 2018, slightly premature) by ILM's own AlexInNYC:

Once upon at time, Kmart stood out like a cow pie on a prayer rug. Now it’s basically just a field of cow-pies, to use an incongruously rural analogy.

https://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2018/01/sunset-on-the-astor-place-kmart-.html

it was a weirdass kmart and everytime i went in there it felt like entering a retail tardis

Alex otm, mosly. RIP. I didn't live down there but didn't mind it, occasionally had a need to go in there and enjoyed seeing it from the subway platform.

Ha, forks.

My only time there was Christmas shopping with my wife and looking for legos for someone. Let's just say I've seen swap meets in rural PA with a less discarded and depressed vibe.

It was the NYU Kmart obv.

All hail this king with the 40-foot RV, small car in tow, camping out on my block this week. He parked here after street cleaning on Monday. If NYC is going to give away public land for free, long-term car storage, people may as well turn it into affordable housing. pic.twitter.com/SViFC9GGBz

— Aaron Naparstek (@Naparstek) July 13, 2021

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/the-bqe-is-covered-in-peppers-seek-alternate-routes/3174959

Yeah we’re running it a little bit hot tonight
I can barely see the road from the habanero comin off of it

Another suicide at the vessel https://www.audacy.com/1010wins/news/local/teen-boy-dies-after-jumping-from-vessel-at-hudson-yards

Oh no

Ugh

close that thing down wtf

what a completely horrible addition to the city that place has been. Who would have thought?

The mall itself is beautiful but have never really taken to the vessel. Looks like a high school notebook doodle gone awry

Not NYC but Governor Cuomo is going down! good riddance to that jerk, always hated his BS tough guy energy.

Good

Fantastic if true.

I don't literally mean if it's true, of course it's true, I mean I don't want to underestimate his wiggling out of things power.

honestly think requiring vaccines to go to the gym will move the needle the most

BREAKING: NYC to require screening for vaccination for entry to bars, nightclubs, restaurants, gyms etc. Will take effect in Sept.

This is a critical measure to slow the rapid spread of Delta here, and to incentivize vaccination.https://t.co/QIWoRu2gGj

— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) August 3, 2021

Re cuomo: ah well nevertheless

yeah this seems possible, but who knows

Gavin Newsom is gonna get replaced by a guy who wins with 11% of the vote because every boat dealer in Orange County voted for him and Andrew Cuomo is still going to be the Governor of New York in 2055

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) August 3, 2021

Wow, that response from Cuomo is borderline psychopathic. He's not stepping down at all.

Vaccination screening only starts in September? Waiting a month seems like a long time

eat shit cuomo

gives people a month to confirm the rule with their staff and rehire as necessary

(both for cuomo and all of nyc i guess)

Also gives people a month to actually get vaccinated.

Hey, give Cuomo some credit, he didn't actually grope anyone during his I-am-not-a-groper speech.

wasn't expecting this

Eric Adams, the next mayor of New York City, calls for the State Assembly to impeach Andrew Cuomo if he does not resign. pic.twitter.com/vvApsqAgU5

— Ross Barkan (@RossBarkan) August 3, 2021

is that surprising? don't they hate each other?

doesn't everyone hate cuomo?

Also prospective mayor, cop, weirdo and red-ass trying to consolidate Authority In A Vaccuum, news at 11

is biden on the record about this from when the allegations first came out?

biden said cuomo should resign back in march

yeah i thought so. i don't understand why people are saying it comes down to biden.

Only one New York governor has ever been impeached — William Sulzer, who was impeached for campaign finance violations and removed from office in October 1913 after a three-week trial. Historians have said he was targeted for having crossed Tammany Hall, the corrupt political organization that had once backed him.

"During his tenure, his efforts to remove Tammany Hall influences in state government resulted in an investigation that discovered fraud in his own campaign contributions," the National Governors Association website said.

Sulzer said his impeachment was a "political lynching" and "the culmination of a deep-laid political conspiracy to oust me from office."

As for the impeachment process itself, Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor, said, "it's a lot like but not the same as in the federal system."

Impeachment begins in the Assembly and "requires a majority of the members of the Assembly" to vote to charge the governor.

Unlike the federal Constitution, New York's Constitution makes "no mention of high crimes and misdemeanors," Galie said. In terms of possible charges, "there's nothing there at all," leaving the way forward entirely up to the Assembly, he said.

If the Assembly votes to charge the governor, a trial is held before the state Senate. Unlike in the federal system, the senators aren't the only judges/jurors. Judges from the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, hear the case, as well. That could be a boon for Cuomo, who appointed all seven of the judges.

Gillers said the judges probably were added to eliminate appeals, because the "state high court judges would already have participated in the impeachment trial."

A two-thirds vote is required for conviction, and the penalty is removal from office. The Senate and the judges could also vote to ban the governor from holding any other state office — a penalty that wasn't used against Sulzer. He was elected to the Assembly just weeks after he was impeached.

Biden directly called on Cuomo to resign today.

P sure everyone either hates Cuomo or is afraid to admit they hate Cuomo. More people moving from latter to former camp now.

There are signs all over NYC right now where worried-looking people ask things like, "Do the vaccines have any impact on pregnancy?" above the tagline "It's good to have questions" and a URL you can go to, and -- I'm no expert -- but maybe just put the answers on the ads?

— Tim Carvell (@timcarvell) August 4, 2021

It’s with a heavy heart we share that a barred owl, a beloved Central Park resident, passed away early this morning. pic.twitter.com/AYEV0gXZIr

— Central Park (@CentralParkNYC) August 6, 2021

;_;

just fucking gobsmacked

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/sometimes-youre-rat-sometimes-youre-great-blue-heron-swallowing-rat-whole

Great news!!

However, millions of rats were potentially killed due to flooding when the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit NYC last week.

The Guitar Center in Brooklyn (@Flatbush and Atlantic) is apparently closed for good

RIP Phil Schaap, NY will never be the same.

true dat