is New York City dead?

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

let's just fucking invade Connecticut already

ugh, why

we could use them for parking

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/

yeesh

https://i.imgur.com/bVFFPVt.jpg

Who can explain these shards of ice that have appeared on the street at every household garbage spot

rain that collected in the folds of garbage bags, froze, then fell off and shattered when DSNY picked up the host bags?

or on the cans, yes

WECIB?

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

Idk man everyone in the nordic countries are hot

that is not true.

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

The fuck

they're using rahm's chicago playbook, which worked out oh so well for everyone

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.

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.)

his supervillain tendencies often worked in his favor
adams is a disaster waiting to happen

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.

adams is going to be president or end up in jail

adams is going to be president or and end up in jail

https://www.bkmag.com/2022/02/17/threes-brewing-vaccine-mandate/

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.

does Wholesale Liquidators still exist? on Lafayette?

Lol I haven’t thought about that place in forever
It’s gone

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.

I play empty subway car lottery about once a week
This week it was a couple of dead pigeons on the floor

glad to hear that the city is going to be giving all of these people places to live

Hotel rooms are waiting

Can’t wait for the NIMBY protests

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.

MIDTOWN!!!!! IS!!!!! BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/fZx2PSnzmC

— Rachel Seville Tashjian (@theprophetpizza) March 1, 2022

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.

Sad lol

“This place called black rock” uhh

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

Oh great now that I've watched that video B**** R*** promotional reels are in my Twitter feed. Fucking life.

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/nyregion/nyc-raised-crosswalks-traffic-deaths.html

surprised to see this coming from adams tbh

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.

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.

artisanal caltrops imo

I like the proposal. Seems like a no brainer

Sorry for the "serious" Q, but are there any good pieces out there, maybe longform/thinkpiece, on the future of NYC in light of the likelihood that offices may never go back to full-capacity and at least aren't in the near future? Like on the economic/RE/business impacts of that and how they affect the city, its tax base, its services, restaurants, entertainment, transit, etc?

Loud sex is ruining hundreds of New Yorkers’ lives, 311 reports show

A person in Queens said a neighbor was “shouting loudly that he is a sexual-tyrannosaurus.”

Seems fun

didn't realize you'd moved to queens

I'm loling at the thought that it was just someone singing along to T-Rex.