is New York City dead?

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

My friends and I would listen to his shows keep track of his tangents and colloquialisms. My favorite was "I'm saying more and more about less and less"

RIP

y'all I'm spending 24 hours in Flushing just for the hell of it, what should I do/eat/see in Flushing?

best chinese food in the country iirc, but i am completely unqualified to recommend any of it

maybe also ask here: 54-46, that's my number: the Queens thread

oh shit thank you!

housebound today but would love to see you!

I should have told you to come to Terraza 7, but I only just got here myself a little while ago.

A man at this congestion pricing @MTA town hall said it would negatively impact businesses, using an example of a time he went into Manhattan for free Krispy Kreme and said he wouldn’t have if there had been a toll. @2AvSagas

— scott rising (@rising) September 30, 2021

Oh boy

Stevie I didn't see this yesterday, I would have told you all the places!!!!

New World Mall basement food court. Go to the grocery store on the main floor to look at amazing unfamiliar fruits and the terrifying giant crabs trying to escape from their plexi holding cells. Steamed rice rolls at Joe's Steam Rice Roll which is right outside the mall. Nan Xiang Xiao for soup DUMPLINGS!!

Sorry all I care about is food. I used to know where to play DDR and get cute stationery but I haven't been shopping there in years.

Y’all don’t worry it’s not til tomorrow/Monday! I’m arriving in Flushing at like 7pm and then leaving the next day prob around 4?

Sliwa says de Blasio has “taken a Miley Cyrus wrecking ball to this city”

— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) October 26, 2021

…the latest skirmish began on Nov. 29 at a community meeting. James Stuckey, an executive vice president at Mr. Ratner’s firm, Forest City Ratner, was explaining the process of eminent domain…… asking the state to obtain
property for them as a last resort … Mr. Stuckey said, would involve declaring properties in the proposed arena footprint "blighted." The word drew jeers from
members of the audience, the newspaper reported, including one woman who yelled back, ‘You’re blighted!’"

love it

In New York we always go big, so I’m going to take my first THREE paychecks in Bitcoin when I become mayor. NYC is going to be the center of the cryptocurrency industry and other fast-growing, innovative industries! Just wait!

— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) November 4, 2021

Adams seems likely to me to be in jail by the end of the decade

lol

Adams comment is surprisingly tone deaf. You can’t buy food or pay rent with crypto

Between politicians shilling for crypto and TV now wall-to-wall sports gambling commercials, starting to feel like we're heading into an era of grand grift that will make all previous grift eras look like pikers.

seems correct

Adams is like Trump where he has an incredible ability to have his finger on the pulse of what every dumb guy is thinking and repeat it back to them in a way that makes them think he's a dumb guy like they are. Rare skill for a politician

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) November 4, 2021

Handicapping the next 10 years: +200 Adams gets indicted and does non-trivial jail time +300 Adams becomes President +800 Adams does jail time THEN becomes President

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) November 4, 2021

i'm saying though

Impressive that NYC managed to elect two legit imbeciles mayor in a row.

NYC has had a bad run of mayors for... how long now?

la guardia was good

laguardia killed the streetcar

Offices are still too empty and too many workers are at home – that has an impact on our economy and ripples across the entire city.

I’m putting a stake in the ground: It’s time to get back to the office. 2/

— Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) November 18, 2021

I would imagine her point is more about what the lack of commuters does to the economy. I support WFH for sure but there are larger effects beyond upset landlords fwiw.

hmm a lot of tweeting when she should be opening up covid boosters to all adults

i understand that not having midtown offices full has an effect but i don't know that her putting a stake in the ground and telling people to just come back is the solution lol xp

totally agree!

Covid boosters are open to all adults in NY as long as it is 6 months after your second dose. I'm getting mine Saturday.

that's for NYC, I don't think all adults in NY State are eligible yet.

actually I see that they are available for anyone who "feels at risk" in NY State so basically everyone. not sure why they feel the need to qualify it like that.

I think some employers are going to start mandating boosters for those who are eligible. Maybe that little qualification might delay that.

I am 49 w/o any morbidities and just scheduled a booster.

"Governor Hochul encourages New Yorkers who are 18 and older and feel at risk to get their COVID-19 booster dose. This includes individuals who received their Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna initial vaccine series at least six months ago or the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at least two months ago."

I parse this as you are eligible if you feel at risk. Who doesn't feel at risk at this point? Anyone going into work in person, eating at a restaurant, shopping in a store could legitimately feel at risk.

xp

The boosters are widely available now. Getting a booster is not preventing someone else from getting it. Get it.

I have to assume being Cuomo's Lt Gov was designed to be a permanent position and never a stepping stone to governor. NY doesn't have term limits. She doesn't seem like she was meant for this. Her messaging style is not great.

yeah the booster messaging has been unclear, the nys gov website says you need to have an underlying condition (tho i know most pharmacies don’t really ask) and there’s no indication that rules in the city are any different