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― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 14 January 2022 20:20 (two years ago) link
stoked for when greenpoint/east williamsburg is designated a superfund site https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0203407
(tbf, it's not the waterfront part it's the industrial part further in)
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
Hey Chinese character, where do you live?
― calstars, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
industrial maspeth sucks for public transportation but i know artist types in ridgewood who have studios there, easy bike ride. rust avenue is a wonderland.
this is a very enjoyable book about the history of landfill and building thereon in NYC, like all of laguardia and jfk are manmade land, plus most of lower manhattan.
― adam, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
Meeker Ave Plume is where my printshop was for a few years. Don't worry, my contribution was minor. It was also the site of the Xi'an Famous Foods factory/warehouse. Which later moved to Woodside. And is on the same block as my current printshop/office is. I walk 10 minutes to work, first I pass a halal live poultry slaughterhouse. Then I pass Xi'An. The smells can be a real trip.
― dan selzer, Friday, 14 January 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
Xi’an is good shit
― calstars, Friday, 14 January 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link
OMG DAYO!!!!Missed you here—I was gonna put you on ILX Milk Carton (again)
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 14 January 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
hullo! i was just reminiscing about shanghai the other day
― 龜, Friday, 14 January 2022 21:40 (two years ago) link
Battery park city was built on landfill
― calstars, Friday, January 14, 2022 2:40 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
battery park city is the rock and shit from the WTC construction
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 15 January 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
let's just fucking invade Connecticut already
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 January 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link
ugh, why
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 January 2022 03:58 (two years ago) link
we could use them for parking
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 January 2022 04:02 (two years ago) link
Seems like some kind of indicator that first-person tales of being mugged are now featured in the NYRBlog.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2022/01/07/notes-on-a-mugging/
― o. nate, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link
yeesh
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/bVFFPVt.jpgWho can explain these shards of ice that have appeared on the street at every household garbage spot
― calstars, Sunday, 6 February 2022 18:55 (two years ago) link
rain that collected in the folds of garbage bags, froze, then fell off and shattered when DSNY picked up the host bags?
― adam, Monday, 7 February 2022 00:18 (two years ago) link
or on the cans, yes
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 February 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
WECIB?
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 February 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
are all danes like this
You never see old people in the streets of NYC. In Copenhagen you do. It's a real city, not just some romcom dream for 20-somethings.— Paul Hünermund (@PHuenermund) February 5, 2022
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 February 2022 03:29 (two years ago) link
Idk man everyone in the nordic countries are hot
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 7 February 2022 04:06 (two years ago) link
that is not true.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 7 February 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
I know the bar for this is high, but is Eric Adams the most cringe NYC mayor ever?
Mayor Eric Adams says he’s going to hold a meeting with high profile rappers to address drill rap music, a contributor to gun violence in New York City. The mayor said he asked his son about the music, and he sent him some videos.— Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) February 11, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 February 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
The fuck
― calstars, Friday, 11 February 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
they're using rahm's chicago playbook, which worked out oh so well for everyone
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 February 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
I asked myself for eight years how an incompetent clown becomes mayor of the largest city in the most powerful country in the world. Guess it's four more years of that.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 February 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
So is Bloomberg the most competent administrator of the last 30 years, on a level of just seeming like a guy who can plausibly run a big operation? (Recognizing that he also had supervillain tendencies.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 11 February 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
his supervillain tendencies often worked in his favoradams is a disaster waiting to happen
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 February 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link
honestly yes. Bloomberg was a good administrator. I think a lot of why things weren't even worse under DeBlasio was that he was just able to coast on the structures set up by Bloomberg for a while, and the economy was good.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 11 February 2022 23:04 (two years ago) link
adams is going to be president or end up in jail
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 11 February 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
adams is going to be president or and end up in jail
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 12 February 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
https://www.bkmag.com/2022/02/17/threes-brewing-vaccine-mandate/
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
I didn't know that Lancelotti on Avenue A closed down for good. I bought a lotti cool housewares there over the years. Lancelotti, 1996-2021.
― Josefa, Friday, 18 February 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
does Wholesale Liquidators still exist? on Lafayette?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 February 2022 10:16 (two years ago) link
Lol I haven’t thought about that place in forever It’s gone
― calstars, Friday, 18 February 2022 11:50 (two years ago) link
New York City Plans to Stop Homeless People From Sheltering on Subways
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/nyregion/homeless-people-subway-trains-mta.html
Not sure how much effect this will have, but I guess Adams needed to do something about deteriorating subway conditions.
― o. nate, Friday, 18 February 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link
I play empty subway car lottery about once a weekThis week it was a couple of dead pigeons on the floor
― calstars, Friday, 18 February 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
glad to hear that the city is going to be giving all of these people places to live
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 18 February 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
Hotel rooms are waiting
― calstars, Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link
Can’t wait for the NIMBY protests
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 February 2022 00:45 (two years ago) link
i share the common trepidation that this amounts to kicking people who have no resources and mental health issues out onto the street in the middle of the winter. otoh, dude who shit himself and has forced everyone out of his car is fucking up everyone else's life too, so something's gotta give.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 February 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
MIDTOWN!!!!! IS!!!!! BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/fZx2PSnzmC— Rachel Seville Tashjian (@theprophetpizza) March 1, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
Those privately-owned public spaces (POPS) provided in the ground floor of office buildings are always kind of weird. Kind of a glorified lobby with some seating. I guess its just a place to hang out if you need to kill some time and don't want to pay for coffee at Starbucks. Except they usually don't have restrooms, so thats a minus.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
Sad lol
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
“This place called black rock” uhh
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
There's one, maybe that one?, that largely functions as a pass-through between two streets in the middle of the block. :D
xp lol yeah
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
Oh great now that I've watched that video B**** R*** promotional reels are in my Twitter feed. Fucking life.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link
There's one, maybe that one?, that largely functions as a pass-through between two streets in the middle of the block. :Dxp lol yeah
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 22:44 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/nyregion/nyc-raised-crosswalks-traffic-deaths.html
surprised to see this coming from adams tbh
― 龜, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
Street-activist social media generally had positive rumblings when Ydanis Rodriquez got tapped for DOT, so I'm guessing maybe this is coming from him? 100 crosswalks a year doesn't really sound like a lot tbh, but every single one will slow down cars and potentially save lives.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:27 (two years ago) link
overall i would prefer a much more radical war-on-cars strategy. but absolutely anything to slow the cars down is a win imho. the couple in Glendale who are referenced and quoted in the article are friends of mine and they went through absolute hell last year.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link