New York City is for sellouts

my typo has been turned into hilarious fun

the MOMfuku milk bar

^^reproduced in case you didnt get it at first

MOM FUK U!!!!
lolololoololol

"milk bar" sounds wrong, especially with mom fuk u

go to the "MoM"A

and the Morgan Library

i dont get that one

morgan library sounds interesting; i popped to moma on a free friday a week or so ago.

the milk bar looks super, but i know that i'd go in, ask for something without sugar and be greeted with the sound of a smashed plate, the piano slamming shut etc. someone else will have to do some research. on the subject of ilx ny hotspots, i might pop to tom's in brooklyn someday.

This sounds kind of funny. I'd want to go see this show:

Endangered Species in Gentrifying Brooklyn
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/theater/reviews/24taki.html?8dpc

By BEN BRANTLEY
Published: November 24, 2008
Marion is, by her description, “a big black woman,” and hardly a retiring type. But when she walks into the new French café in her neighborhood — a place dominated by thin, pale, chic people — nobody sees her. It’s not that she’s being ignored, she says; it’s that “I don’t exist.” In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, her longtime neighborhood, she has become an invisible woman.

On the other hand, theatergoers who attend “Taking Over,” the fiery polemical portrait gallery of a play that opened Sunday night at the Public Theater, will find Marion impossible to overlook and hard to forget. She is embodied by a big white guy named Danny Hoch, the play’s author and sole performer.

Mr. Hoch a specialist in placing invisible people in the line of vision of folks who might otherwise never see them. Marion has too much pride to yell, “Look at me!,” but her creator is happy to raise his voice — loudly and raucously — on her behalf, by bringing her and her spiritual kin into being. The extravagantly talented Mr. Hoch has been channeling the restless souls of the dispossessed and the marginalized since the early 1990s, becoming a boiling one-man melting pot in shows like “Some People” and “Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop.” Now he is insisting that attention be paid to the endangered species to which Marion belongs.

That’s the hard-core group of New Yorkers in Williamsburg, of varying ethnicity and slender means, who have come under siege from a growing army of upper-middle-class invaders. In the segment that begins the show, set during a Community Day celebration, an angry young man of Polish and Puerto Rican descent named Robert takes microphone in hand to denounce the “yuppie alternative-rocker, post-punk white people — and black people too,” who are effectively running him and his family out of town. “Why are you here?” he screams into the audience. “Nobody wants you here!”

yuppie alternative-rocker, post-punk white people

YARPPUWP - a new species

he means you

who?

Hoch is quite a chameleon... but once when I saw him open in Central Park for Gil Scott Heron, the crowd was booing his transracial portrayals til GSH came onstage and intervened.

I love the new taxi logos! The shitty xerox quality is a huge part of their appeal.

the MOMfuku milkf bar

http://gawker.com/why-do-i-still-live-in-new-york-city-a-roundtable-1707169606

My question is where else to move to in the US if you want dense living (SF is not an answer)

I know I troll these threads a lot but lol @

"Your Mexican food is so bad it borders on racism."

What are some ways people have found success finding roommates? I've had a few friends of friends type leads but it's all come up short - I'm finding I'm pretty picky. Sadly.

i will jump off my roof before i ever have a roomie again

get a better job, or an apartment in a less convenient location, and live by yourself. i have had exactly 1 good roommate in the last 12 years.

wait make that 2.

I could do that... But the studios and 1 bedrooms seem like such a ripoff compared to the type of place I could live with a roommate.

Also in Philly I lived in a studio and it was honestly really lonely much of the time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/nyregion/half-of-new-yorkers-say-they-are-barely-or-not-getting-by-poll-shows.html

of 1961 NYC residents polled earlier this month, 52% of black respondents, 44% of Bronx residents, 42% of hispanic respondents and 36% of Brooklyn residents claimed that the chance that a family member will be incarcerated is very likely or almost certain. Compare to 15% of white respondents and 27% of Manhattan residents.

xpost to "why not class warfare"

https://hyperallergic.com/415553/cardboard-yayoi-kusamas-infinity-room

I spent the last week in NY it was kind of fun but mostly sad

Also every restaurant I ate at was worse than the average restaurant in Denver

sleepingbag: a dipshit at life, not just at posting

shoulda asked for resto tippos

with so many restaurants in the city it's not too hard to end up in a crappy one but also just as easy to end up somewhere really good. xxp

that box looks lame

pvm in screenname character but yeah of course i agree

NYC on the whole has a surprisingly large number of mediocre and overpriced restaurants. I agree Denver is more the kind of place where you can just walk into an average affordable restaurant and get a good meal, whereas NYC you really have to know where to go and often be prepared to spend.

NYC makes me sad too fwiw, at least Manhattan does. I enjoy not working there anymore.

Denver is a great food city tbh!

To be fair, the music + comedy we saw was leagues better than what's typically on offer locally. And for my buddy I went with, visiting Harlem gave him an experience probably akin to what I'd get if I went to Israel (guessing here). But overall the city seemed a lot less impressive then the last time I was there (around 10 years ago) for reasons both objective + subjective.

NYC has a surprisingly large number of mediocre and overpriced tourists

People who wear boating shoes or flip flops: what the fuck are you thinking

I love flips flops. I can walk miles in them. But in the city you kind of want to be able to run away.

more like a psychological torture chamber than a city, really

Gotta find the city within the city

blehhhhhhh

there are many people here who i love. there are many places here that are great. but honestly, so much about this place wears on me.

i renewed my lease though

omg, i totally forgot about that Beware the Boys song. I just started playing it and we are dying laughing.

This is what happens when I just skim these threads. I should maybe re-read it at some point.

treeship, what happened?

NA you ought to be glad you're rid of such shallow people.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, August 7, 2003 10:03 AM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeeowch

i'm just whining. the proximate cause of my problem is some transit nightmare and then a horrible cab driver who drove in circles for a half hour before finding the williamsburg bridge. but in general, i've felt worn down by the work culture at my job and also i find that when i'm in the city--especially manhattan--i feel this kind of constant, low level anxiety and i'm sick of it

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