is New York City dead?

supposedly more people are leaving ny than any other state and the population is decreasing. I think this year might be my last year as a resident.

Soul spot is still there on Atlantic I think. I always loved that place.

Still there. There’s also a xian by the jay st F now

i recently got promoted at work and i still can't afford to live here, fuck this place to death

i can't even afford to live in commuting distance from NYC in NJ. As much as it sucks i don't know what other area of the county I could or would want to move to.

did you at least get a >5% raise with that promotion? because businesses try to pull that irritating crap when doling out extra responsibility.

Fairway closing

supposedly more people are leaving ny than any other state and the population is decreasing. I think this year might be my last year as a resident.

― Yerac, Tuesday, January 7, 2020 11:16 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

will this make rents go down? bc i am here for the foreseeable future.

meat product substitutes were so mediocre and pricey for so long (except maybe 1-2 tofurkey products) that I still haven't tried any of the new fake meats. I saw Beyond Burgers at costco this weekend for so much cheaper than my regular grocery store but there was no interest to invest in 8 patties. Fake meat on top of beans is making me feel bloaty just thinking about it (we also usually are fine with bean, avocado (NO RICE) burritos).

― Yerac, Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:06 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm slowly removing all animal products from my diet (down to just eggs now) and the beyond or impossible burger is horrible. i don't understand what is wrong with tofu, tempeh, seitan and other vegan proteins that are still recognizably plant products.

will this make rents go down? bc i am here for the foreseeable future.

I know dick all about New York but the answer here is definitely no.

I was very close to moving last fall for reasons that didn't end up panning out, but christ, would it have been a massive jump in quality of life

New —> FAIRWAY, the iconic NYC supermarket, says it has NO intention of filing for bankruptcy or closing stores.
Disputing today’s report in the NYPost. pic.twitter.com/lTpgXS4Q2l

— Clifford Levy (@cliffordlevy) January 22, 2020

when a local supermarket chain beloved by residents of the richest city in the country is acquired by private equity, expands, goes public, and then goes out of business and closes all its stores in like a decade? that's The Economy baby https://t.co/lVgt91esuM

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) January 22, 2020

xp journo's tweet is wrong about that fairway statement - they just say they have no intention of closing "all" stores. Instead they clearly are saying "brace for an undisclosed number of store closings".

lack of a determiner in "ongoing operations of stores" is telling

We might have no intention to file Chapter 7, but we might be forced to/do it accidentally.

fairway in red hook is prett my dope, get the omelette and chill by the inlet and shit

what is the reason fairway is so beloved? it always felt like a pretty normal grocery store to me. was it more magical seeming in the 80s and 90s when whole foods and trader joe's didn't exist?

I’ve only been to the one in red hook

Michael Shannon lives above Fairway in Red Hook.

oh ha, maybe not anymore. I see they rented out the apt for $6500/mth last year.

better produce than trader joes was the appeal for me

the chelsea fairway was always a ghost town and felt really old despite it being a newer one.

was it more magical seeming in the 80s and 90s when whole foods and trader joe's didn't exist?

I think that's a big part of it.

iirc Michael Shannon is in Chicago most of the time, or has been due to theater obligations in recent years

apologies for tweetposting but the first half of this video before the music video derail captures a certain aspect of the tourist/rich condo zeitgeist:

GOOD NEWS! There is a Hudson Yards Video Game and I am the Main guy in it! See full clip ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️https://t.co/vaMuFNKA9j pic.twitter.com/dDxbYpWHQi

— Conner O'Malley (@conner_omalley) January 21, 2020

produce and cheese was miles beyond your typical upper west side market back in the day for the og store, it was like balducci's (rip) but old upper west side (jewish) and less blatantly fancy pants

They carried this one kind of curry powder that I loved that no one else stocked. It was that kind of place.

you ppl and your FOOD, idgi

balducci's (rip)

There are still a few left iirc

Also hi Buzza

The last time I was in a Fairway (UWS) was to get ingredients for a meatball lasagna my friend was going to teach me to make. That lasagna was like $60 in ingredients but it was f'ing delicious. TOP LASAGNA.

balducci's (rip)

There are still a few left iirc

one in the city and a few in the suburbs

Since my longtime landlord sold the eight-unit building to a mysterious corporate entity a few years ago, there’s been a revolving door in the apartment next to mine and the one below. The turnover happens every summer. So far, maybe because young men are known to be destructive, the new owners have only admitted young women, with one exception. By design, none of them stays for more than a year. The East Village is just a way station, empty of significance. My young friends who are queers and artists have never set foot in this neighborhood. It’s irrelevant to them. When I tell them I live here, they look confused. Why would you want to live there? The East Village is nowhere.

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-36/essays/open-house/

what a drag it is getting old

or living in a dead, unaffordable city

with an utterly marginalized arts community

I read that open house piece an hour ago and I am still mad about the door slamming.

what an obnoxious article. yes, a neighborhood with 20 year olds is likely to have an increasing number of people named Hayley. they might even use amazon and have smart phones.

here's an obnoxious mayoral hopeful for you, whose words i feel viscerally

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2020/01/21/eric-adams-slams-gentrification-in-speech-says-go-back-to-iowa

yes, as someone who was of course born and raised in New York, you are one of the few with a birthright

lol non-obnoxious iatee

they might even use amazon and have smart phones.

so fuck them and their shitty jobs and 5 to an apartment idiocy

I thought the piece was very well written but there is something about being mad new transplantees not adapting to where they move and old transplantees not adapting to new environments. I was only mad about the door slamming. Always terrible. All neighbors are terrible.

I don't post tweets but this really spoke to me yesterday.

Someone: Im in town!

New Yorkers: OMFG!! That’s so great! Have fun!!!!

Phillip Henry
@MajorPhilebrity

I have friends whose apartment gets a steady stream of friends across the nation staying with them and all i can think is WHYYYYY

That article would be hilarious if it was a short story. The author really captures the voice of a motherfucking lunatic you'd pray not to be stuck next to on the subway.

what is their deal??? (xpost)

I have a formula on people staying with me depending on how well I know them, like them, how long they want to stay, what their plans are, if they are familiar enough with nyc.

Idk I have time for that article. I kinda felt that way 10 yrs ago while trying to get an apt anywhere in Pros/Crown Heights but we kept losing to younger ppl than us with more "liquid assets" than us, and parents who took them on tours of refurbished bldgs while asking why there wasn't a doorman. It was painfully alienating and I really felt it as a personal failure even though I knew that those 22-yr olds weren't putting down their own 4 months' worth of first+last+dep+fee. It still felt like my failure to be one of them was being aired all around me and my grubby self whose apt was furnished with "finds" and hand-me-downs. It felt like a different world.

there are two kinds of ppl in NYC

yeah the fact that they thought that anecdote about the couple and the cat was brilliant enough to share brought to mind Fran Lebowitz. good riddance to the deeply mediocre and self-important generation of new york transplants who think that complaining about cellphones is clever.

xps