Bloomberg: What the hell is his problem?

“We recognize that we did not do the job that New Yorkers rightly expect of us in the last storm,” Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference at City Hall.

eh its not exactly 'i didnt declare a snow emergency because i was in bermuda'

oh man it's all plowed, so beautiful

best mayor ever?

yeah, what a medal he gets for taking care of 1/3 of the December snowfall.

I am declaring Iatee Looks Like a Choad Day.

happy iatee looks like a choad day, everyone!

and the VV's cover story on more glorious NYC bang for the buck:

http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-01-12/news/nyc-payroll-computer-system-citytime/#

so psyched to finally have my own day

gonna celebrate by cruisin around shep bay

this truly is a city of dreams

dont rest on yr laurels, keep pushing until morbs gives you a nickname imo

http://www.dnainfo.com/20110120/manhattan/harlem-now-included-plan-legalize-hailing-livery-cabs

so, good for the boroughs vs 'great, more fucking black cabs'?

everyone does this already, but good move regardless

oh man, gypsy cabs and upper manhattan, can't have one w/o the other

sorta seems like it could be a first step in overturning the whole medallion system

I mean at the very least meters + regulation would be a good thing...even though you can already hail one anywhere in the boroughs where there's currently enough of a market, a meter system would presumably increase ridership -> more business -> more coverage?

otoh worst fucking menace on the streets and I don't see anything in this process that would motivate them to drive more sensibly.

i hate hailing black cabs cause i feel like i need to negosh

I take a cab about 1.6 times a year

yeah I only take em to move shit

aw you two are like 2 peas in a pod

<3

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Sustained booing for @mikebloomberg at labor-heavy crowd marking Triangle Shirtwaist fire anniv, @gracerauh says.
9 minutes ago

Unfortunately, Bloomberg was blissfully unaware that the tribute was being paid to the workers [[haw haw haw]]

he wants to reopen Triangle Shirtwaist since he suspects a cigarette started the fire

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg intends to eliminate 4,100 teaching jobs through layoffs, city officials said on Friday.

"For your own safety stay in rooms with no or few windows."

DICK!

do you live in a glass house or something? you know what they say, man.

studio, WITH WINDOWS

uh yeah we all have those fyi

I know that you think that every thing that bloomberg/the/ mta city of ny does is 100% just to fuck w/ you, but I mean, if the hurricane does get bad then people probably should attempt to stay away from windows. what do you want him to say? "I am buying a 1br for everyone in the city who lives in a studio" if there's a part of your studio that's further away from windows, you should probably be there. if things go apocalyptic, I dunno hang out in the bathroom.

fwiw I'm also in a studio w/ large windows right now too, outside of nyc but more directly in the hurricane's path

"stay in a room with no windows in your apartment" is just something a guy w/ a panic room and several bunkers says

do you have a bathroom

we have a 2br but there's nowhere away from a window. I guess the "worst" windows are ones facing S or SW? Or does it not work like that?

Morbs, shut the fuck up and get in the bathroom with your Joel McCrea stickers collection.

lol morbs this one is a bit of a stretch

I'm not gonna sleep in the bathroom, iatee, but i recommend you do

that's like... standard hurricane SOP

IN FLORIDA WHERE PPL HAVE HOUSES, YOU HICK

i have to imagine that in the vast jungle of nyc someone, somewhere, has an apartment with two rooms

what are you even complaining about at this point? do you think bloomberg is in some way responsible for the hurricane? do you think he could be doing things he isn't doing right now, if so, what exactly?

an overwhelming majority of residents of new york city do not live in studios, I remember looking at the breakdown somewhere.

what pct live in apts with a windowless room? don't answer.

it may be annoying (i have a 1-bedroom but the living room and kitchen have windows) but it's sensible advice. the mayor of Hoboken recommended the same thing FWIW.

i mean, this is a silly thing to get pissed off with Bloomberg about!

it shows the automatic-pilot elitism, typical of all high-level pols but rather pronounced in him.

this is insane

that we don't have windowless rooms?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kZNjoJePr7A/Th3ja2Q0vbI/AAAAAAAAAKk/EMBry6OaBls/s1600/Housing_by_city.JPG

Yes, but I, for example, am in a tenement 2Br and we have windows in every room.

right but there's still a decision you can make w/r/t which room seems safer

which was basically all bloomberg was saying...

yeah fyi every single government official and broadcaster on the eastern seaboard has said this exact thing in the past 2 days, angrily reviving a thread about one of them because of your political opposition to them is just well it's just almost too morbz

also it's not like there's gonna be some correlation between 'people w/ a room w/ no windows' and 'rich people' - lots of the 'worst' rooms in the city are gonna have no windows and lots of rich people are living in glass-y window-lovin skyscrapers.

OMG Morbs, the "stay in a room with no windows" is also advice they give you in a tornado here in the Midwest, this isn't like something new Bloomberg pulled out of his ass just to piss you off.