is New York City dead?

they're ugly and also not very fun to sit in but better the sheds than parking spots

Cool it turbo tax

I found my dad 15 bucks

anyone living in ny10 have strong opinions about the primary? leaning towards mondaire jones, who seems like a good rep, but if there's someone i should vote for to block natsec darling dan goldman, that would be great.

Niou or Rivera and go with god

They’re prob gonna split the youth vote tbh

After the NY1 debate two thumbs up for Niou. There's something so cynical about Rivera's type of "I took money from real estate and crypto interests so now I'm a practical-" progressivism. Jones seems like a good rep but he's just not familiar enough with the district. Goldman is a ghoul.

I don't live in the 10 but would vote Yuh-Line happily.

She was running a community support program out of her office all during COVID and out in the streets with her staff going to find out what people needed. She reps for local small businesses, unabashedly loves NYC culture and food, and has the most progressive politics in the race as I understand it.

Mondaire absolutely got done dirty by Sean Patrick Maloney in being pushed out of the new district but I think he could have stayed and fought--like 70% of the new district mapped onto his old one! He got bullied, which was bad, and he went straight into the city to opportunistically bully someone else out of their seat and I think it stinks.

It just lacks imagination, among other criticisms. No one is owed a job in politics, y'know? If he found himself out-maneuvered, even thought it was unethical and shitty for a party official like SPM to bully his own fellow party member, he could have become an advocate for party reforms, or had a strategic plan for where to bolster the system for future Dem and progressive wins.

dimes sq is on google maps I hate it here pic.twitter.com/lwLk31c5EY

— 🕳 (@kimuong_) August 23, 2022

?

Dimes is a really trendy restaurant on Canal St that has been the center of a "community" or something for years now and at some point some journalists/tweeters started calling the area "dimes square". This is a sign that it is sticking.

it is also a pun based on times sq (obv) and a bunch of annoying people who consider themselves dimes (10s out of 10)

Huh, I would've guessed it was a drug-dealing reference (dime bags), but I guess that probably dates me quite a bit. The LES hasn't been like that in many years.

i went to dimes once in 2014. isn't it like 4 tables? how can there possibly be a scene there?

This "scene" consists of about a half dozen people, who all guest on each other's podcasts. But because it's New York, each of these assholes knows at least 50 reporters desperate for something to write about and turn into a thing, so...

sounds annoying

who all guest on each other's podcasts

Podcasts? I love podcasts!

*quick googling*

Oh, it's Red Scare.

I’d argue as dumb as the idea of it being a scene is, especially dumb tweets comparing it to Williamsburg in the late 90s but with no music scene or whatever, it is true that that area of town, which used to just part of Chinatown I guess, has been filled with galleries and boutiques and hip eateries or whatever so of course it needs a name other than “the part of Chinatown where white people hang out”.

Whinatown

Honky Kong

lol

Everything you wanted to know about Dimes Square but were afraid to ask...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-dimes-square-became-the-new-york-neighborhood-we-love-to-hate?fbclid=IwAR0e6ZJY8WE0Z4n2h-CjmPQ0z8C3RwD3jkPWBCeLYmw3c3kavZptiJeoDQ0

jesus christ

FFS. Lol at "Honky Kong" though!

https://www.thecut.com/2022/08/cast-the-come-up-dimes-square-reality-series.html

ugh no

mr choppy getting twitchy

http://www.willyspiller.com/hell-on-wheels

ah, the good old days

some great NYC pics in the Street Life section too

Huh, I would've guessed it was a drug-dealing reference (dime bags), but I guess that probably dates me quite a bit.

Yeah, this would've been a given the last time I left my house. I'm not going out until I get to make up my own neighborhoods and secure REBNY financing for NoDad: the Rollercoaster and West Malarkey: The FX Pedal.

Not one of the Dimes Square people appears to be a Catholic who rejects Vatican II or has taught at Bari Weiss University.

It's official: @EWRairport is not a New York City airport https://t.co/zqtS57J3Kg

— Jason Rabinowitz (@AirlineFlyer) September 7, 2022

Weird that Lufthansa group had same fares for EWR and other NYC airports up till now. In my experience, same international flight out of JFK is always much cheaper than EWR.

Just had a hot dog at Greys papaya ($3.21) and now having a beer on the UWS and listening to miles. It just stopped raining. It’s a ny afternoon

i love it

Went to the hungarian bakery this weekend so that’s pretty dope.

All Hungarian people need to eat

y'all making me nostalgic

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-states/new-york/new-york/times-square.html

went to economy candy and blew sixty bucks on halloween candy

Going back to the US for the holidays (CT) and going into NYC for one day to run some errands and have Malaysian food. That’s it.

Money spent on candy is notblown - we all need to to eat

feel like this hochul election is gonna be like the new jersey 2021 election with unexpectedly tight polls but a comfortable 4-5% victory

Worth noting that this could be one of the worst cities in the world for Malaysian food. There's an OK place in Sunset Park. And one in Queens. But NY is terrible with SE Asian food. Sydney, NY is not.

not...that...surprising...considering...the proximity...of Malaysia to Sydney...and the relatively...small population... of Malaysians?

Y'all got hot dogs in Sydney?

no one said it was surprising