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
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
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".
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
lack of a determiner in "ongoing operations of stores" is telling
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
We might have no intention to file Chapter 7, but we might be forced to/do it accidentally.
― We're jumping on the road with @Nickelback this summer! (PBKR), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
fairway in red hook is prett my dope, get the omelette and chill by the inlet and shit
― calstars, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:06 (four years ago) link
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?
― iatee, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
I’ve only been to the one in red hook
― treeship., Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
Michael Shannon lives above Fairway in Red Hook.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
oh ha, maybe not anymore. I see they rented out the apt for $6500/mth last year.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:25 (four years ago) link
better produce than trader joes was the appeal for me
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
the chelsea fairway was always a ghost town and felt really old despite it being a newer one.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 January 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Thursday, 23 January 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link
iirc Michael Shannon is in Chicago most of the time, or has been due to theater obligations in recent years
― babu frik fan account (mh), Thursday, 23 January 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
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
― babu frik fan account (mh), Thursday, 23 January 2020 02:33 (four years ago) link
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
― buzza, Thursday, 23 January 2020 06:35 (four years ago) link
They carried this one kind of curry powder that I loved that no one else stocked. It was that kind of place.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:18 (four years ago) link
you ppl and your FOOD, idgi
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
balducci's (rip)There are still a few left iircAlso hi Buzza
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 January 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
balducci's (rip)There are still a few left iirc
There are still a few left iirc
one in the city and a few in the suburbs
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Thursday, 23 January 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
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/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
what a drag it is getting old
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
or living in a dead, unaffordable city
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
with an utterly marginalized arts community
I read that open house piece an hour ago and I am still mad about the door slamming.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
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
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
yes, as someone who was of course born and raised in New York, you are one of the few with a birthright
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
lol non-obnoxious iatee
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
they might even use amazon and have smart phones.
so fuck them and their shitty jobs and 5 to an apartment idiocy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
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
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
I have friends whose apartment gets a steady stream of friends across the nation staying with them and all i can think is WHYYYYY
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
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.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
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's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
there are two kinds of ppl in NYC
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
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
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
my first nyc apt (illegal loft conversion in east wburg that years later had a bad fire) i thankfully found through cl and only needed deposit + first and he gave a free first month rent. I hadn't found all roommates yet and ph!l0h showed up while I was on the street moving in and ended up living there for several months.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
it'd be a shame for iatee and unperson to be stuck next to the author on under a train
phil oh, i remember him!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
I JUST realized it was written by the Vanishing NY guy. This all makes so much more sense.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
both my first nyc roommates were through ilx. the other one lasted less than a month before leaving nyc.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
Actually by that time I had lost my apt so I was couch-surfing and staying w ppl for a month at a time while my stuff was in storage and going apt hunting every weekend, getting ripped off by a broker we had to take to small claims court (and track down his shady as fuck business venture via searchable records to find ties to his dad's real estate company, then home address in Brooklyn Heights, and go there and KNOCK ON HIS FAMILY'S FRONT DOOR to get our money back--his mother cut us a check), and just generally doing shitty. Meanwhile Franklin Ave was getting hype and the hospital reopened as apartments and we just kept losing our bids on apartments. It was a tough 4-6 mos. Being un-housed really freaks me out still today.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
my challop is it's insane to describe yourself or someone else as a "transplant", who gives a shit where you're from, people move all the time
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
we're full up and more
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
i know a kelsie who's lived in the east village for five years. not only does she have a cellphone, she's a poseur who never saw the velvets at max's kansas city
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
yeah, like the percentage of people living in any big city that weren't born in the city, or even in the country, is always high. and being mad when some 20 somethings move to a city that you moved to when you were a 20 something is, you know, a bit rich.
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
anybody who's never lived here has nothing to say, sorry
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link