is New York City dead?

see now you got me curious

who is this genius curator i wonder

mookie, I've used this guy for three things (including wills). He was free through my company so I don't know what his rates are like. But he is very accessible in chelsea, super quick responding to emails (you can do almost everything through phone calls and email), and was generally really easy to work with/pleasant. I am likely using him again this year.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrence-hanover-58937722/

the other thing about the village is nyu owns most of it and the parts nyu doesn’t own, nyu kids may disproportionately live, so the complaints largely seem like complaints about college kids more than anything else

(except when they become digressions about stalking and stealthily photographing and imagining murdering and violating them, which, I’m sorry, is fucking creepy)

tbf, entitled college kids are a blight upon the village. not so much they should be stalked/murdered but still.

entitled college kids are a blight upon the village earth

nyu owning most of the village is a very bad thing but i guess we can't undo that

not without seizing it anyway

^ this makes me wish the olsen twins still made movies.

thanks yerac!

yeah i feel like you need commercially zoned dead space for an artistic bohemian area to really work i.e. hackney wick, early williamsburg, etc

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand),

im hoarding empty warehouses in Patterson, NJ tell your friends!

i hear detroit is still hiring

I feel like I do hear little snatches of things through my wife's artist friends and various other random people I know and it's mostly like there's no one place anymore "I hear artists are moving to [Woodhaven, Jamaica, Brownsville, East New York, Maspeth, Glendale, Mill Basin, a tiny unnamed island off the southern coast of Long Island, a barge in the Hudson river, etc.]

are there 'cool neighborhoods' anywhere in america? is there some place where it's more fun to be a 20 y/o artist than the gentrifying edges of brooklyn at the moment? I feel like some combination of 'the internet' + all dense urban areas getting expensive/safer/'normal' in past decades has made this idea a bit archaic.

Young people are moving to the woods

not exactly what Thoreau had in mind

Thoreau was a piece of shit so

uh oh dint know Thoreau was cancelled

NYU owned a lot less of the EV when I was there, eg nothing on Ave B which was a hellscape.

Love any excuse to foist this essay on ppl https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/pond-scum

Livingston Manor is the new Williamsburg.

As my stepdad would say , “Livingstink Manure”

Rockaways seem pretty low key

until you get targeted for fare evasion cssny.org/news/entry/mta-false-fare-evasion-narrative-data

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nooks-and-corners-of-old-new-york

https://whitney.org/artport-commissions/new-york-apartment/

haha wow

Mayor de Blasio is indeed here at the Park Slope YMCA this morning. Passers by have commented negatively. One called him an idot. pic.twitter.com/FIgEmlf4Gf

— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) March 16, 2020

what an idiot

indeed

do we need a separate NYC thread for our unique challenges? (if there are some)

anyway we have takeout cocktails now

https://gothamist.com/food/cuomo-announces-bars-restaurants-can-sell-go-cocktails-during-coronavirus-shutdown

lmao jesus christ

i mean good for the bars but just wild to me

I love that New York still has it’s expensive whimsies that don’t actually affect me

They should call it The Turkey's Nest Rule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDOcpEdgvJU

i mean who hasn't filled up a travel mug with booze and wandered the streets

I walked into deepest Boro Park to reach the nearest Cap1t4l One ATM (cuz yes, that's how cheap I am re fees). Still 100% Orthodox residents with 100% Latino manual labor.

PSA to new yorkers who will be ordering delivery due to the new restaurant closure (from me, a part time delivery worker) delivery workers are extremely vulnerable right now. please be considerate. here are some things you can do

— wash hands. wear mask. stay home (@wilfredchan) March 16, 2020

deBlasio was making noise about a possible future quarantining of the city

Cuomo replied that only he can do that, and he has no plans to

boy howdy

maybe they'll fight to the death

rebuild the economy with pay-per-view fights between politicians. two chairs and one weapon each.

they really should quarantine. Too many people need to be given direct instructions.

that'd be bad for me, as I don't know if im bugging out of town yet or not

yeah, I actually invited two friends of mine to come here to stay and then the next day they closed the border.

or rather they made the announcement that they would be closing the border. You would have time at least to make a decision if they announced it.

De Blasio saying a shelter in place order could come within the next 48 hours per gothamist

shit is getting real: alternate-side parking regulations have been suspended for the next week

They’re not sweeping the street, it begins

local bodega sold me five rolls of toilet paper without so much as a wink. they were out of tamales though. sometimes walk around the neighborhood fixes a lot of agit.

i'm not worried as much about 'shelter in place' as I am the risk of going anywhere even for authorized purposes, in my immunocompromised class.