Cecil Taylor was from Corona, Queens, and named several albums after it:
https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/corona
https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/looking-berlin-version-corona
https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-of-corona
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 10 April 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
also where Louis Armstrong lived for decadeshttps://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 April 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
oh, I totally forgot about Corona, Queens.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 April 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
it is where the Mets play (not Flushing)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 April 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
i am a bad queens resident.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 April 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
I wrote about the sirens https://t.co/geMSB6RHyU— Samer (@Samer) April 10, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 April 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
in corona yo it's better to take than to receive - ju ju
― adam, Friday, 10 April 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
No systems fail question today sadface lolz
― calstars, Friday, 10 April 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
every time I see this I feel like I am living in an entirely different city because I haven't consciously registered a single siren since this all started
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 11 April 2020 04:50 (three years ago) link
(and there are several hospitals near me, my zip code is in the middle in terms of COVID cases; there's no reason why I wouldn't hear sirens, and yet I can't remember a single one)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 11 April 2020 04:52 (three years ago) link
Essential workers were waiting for the subway on a crowded platform. The NYPD told people to socially distance even though they literally couldn't.One man told the police that they couldn't spread out and THIS is how they reacted.Absolutely outrageous and dangerous. pic.twitter.com/1RbTDZ6tej— Real Justice (@RealJusticePAC) April 10, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 April 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
Andy-Billy slapfight will never stop, this time about school year ending
https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-updates-april-11-de-blasio-claps-helpers-bellevue
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 April 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, 11 April 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/coronavirus-help-healthcare-workers.html
“You see people donating pizza to hospitals over and over,” Father Merz remarked. “How much pizza does anybody really want? Who needs 3,000 granola bars?” Hospitals constantly dealing with triage don’t have the bandwidth to manage the random delivery of food at unscheduled hours. He and Mr. Sheehan devised a plan to circumvent this kind of inefficiency, to feed Woodhull’s staff and also try to address the pandemic’s secondary crisis, the explosion of unemployment within the city’s restaurant industry.They went to Josh Cohen, owner of Jimmy’s Diner in Williamsburg — north Brooklyn is restaurant country — who had closed his place and boarded it up. He lent his kitchen. North Brooklyn Angels rehired the cooks and dishwashers that Mr. Cohen had to lay off when he was forced to shutter. These workers prepare meals for Woodhull to be delivered three times a day. Mr. Cohen and Mr. Sheehan and a band of retired firefighters deliver them, each driver taking enough food to feed 100 people at a time. The operation began with 300 meals a day, this week, then almost immediately ratcheted up to 450 as military medical personnel arrived to assist the efforts at Woodhull. The plan is to keep scaling up from there; an Episcopal church on Long Island is working on replicating the model.In Sandy’s aftermath, Father Merz was among the organizers of some of the most prominent relief efforts, efforts drawing from strong networks and deep embeds in communities, of the kind later studied by the Department of Homeland Security for an understanding of how so much volunteer work succeeded where bureaucracy could not. Some of what he saw immediately after the storm baffled him. “We were doing Sandy stuff out of my church,’’ he said. “One day, it’s 5 o’clock and I’m sitting here drinking a Pabst and I see someone reeling in a Ping-Pong table. A Ping-Pong table! I’m like, Do you really think anyone needs a Ping-Pong table, in the Rockaways? Now?”That quote was actually punctuated by a liberal number of profanities.
They went to Josh Cohen, owner of Jimmy’s Diner in Williamsburg — north Brooklyn is restaurant country — who had closed his place and boarded it up. He lent his kitchen. North Brooklyn Angels rehired the cooks and dishwashers that Mr. Cohen had to lay off when he was forced to shutter. These workers prepare meals for Woodhull to be delivered three times a day. Mr. Cohen and Mr. Sheehan and a band of retired firefighters deliver them, each driver taking enough food to feed 100 people at a time. The operation began with 300 meals a day, this week, then almost immediately ratcheted up to 450 as military medical personnel arrived to assist the efforts at Woodhull. The plan is to keep scaling up from there; an Episcopal church on Long Island is working on replicating the model.
In Sandy’s aftermath, Father Merz was among the organizers of some of the most prominent relief efforts, efforts drawing from strong networks and deep embeds in communities, of the kind later studied by the Department of Homeland Security for an understanding of how so much volunteer work succeeded where bureaucracy could not. Some of what he saw immediately after the storm baffled him. “We were doing Sandy stuff out of my church,’’ he said. “One day, it’s 5 o’clock and I’m sitting here drinking a Pabst and I see someone reeling in a Ping-Pong table. A Ping-Pong table! I’m like, Do you really think anyone needs a Ping-Pong table, in the Rockaways? Now?”
That quote was actually punctuated by a liberal number of profanities.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 12 April 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
https://gothamist.com/news/move-over-pizza-rat-heres-rat-eating-rat
“They start killing and eating each other right inside that nest,” he noted. “When things just aren’t available, and they get hungry. It’s the nearest rat that’s smaller and weaker that will be the protein.”And if a rat colony were to take the risky step in infringing on another rodent colony’s turf—the result of an exodus from a food-depleted part of the city—expect a battle to break out.“They will not give up that territory without a big battle,” said Corrigan, who’s personally witnessed such beefs occurring between rodents well before the coronavirus crisis. “It’s like something out of Ben-Hur.”
And if a rat colony were to take the risky step in infringing on another rodent colony’s turf—the result of an exodus from a food-depleted part of the city—expect a battle to break out.
“They will not give up that territory without a big battle,” said Corrigan, who’s personally witnessed such beefs occurring between rodents well before the coronavirus crisis. “It’s like something out of Ben-Hur.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/04/17/soft-serve-defiance-ice-cream-trucks-ply-brooklyn-streets
I've been hearing the jingle!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 20 April 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
me too, across the street
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 April 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Just heard the first one 15 minutes ago
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 20 April 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
1 in 62 people in New York City have tested positive for coronavirus, 1 in 235 people in New York City have been hospitalized for coronavirus, and 1 in 582 people in New York City have died from coronavirus, according to data from the city and the US Census Bureau.— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 21, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
devastating numbers, what a failure of leadership
― silby, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
mta death count is now over 80
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
jesus are those tweet numbers accurate?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
1 in 582 dead would be about 12,000 people. So yes.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
where are the cops?
https://gothamist.com/news/ultra-orthodox-hasidic-yeshivas-classes-brooklyn-coronavirus
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 12:16 (three years ago) link
"I think I've been specific about it," de Blasio says when asked the specific reasons why NYC is different from other cities that have closed streets to cars.— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) April 22, 2020
He says in California, drivers stop at intersections even when there's no light or stop sign, and they stop for people crossing mid-block. There's a different culture in NY. CA people - is this right?— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) April 22, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
failure to yield to peds is ticket + points in CA (as of like 3 years ago) WHICH IS WHAT IT SHOULD BE. the difference is enforcement for whatever reason. the NYS should be fining drivers constantly.
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
the sad thing is this is a historic opportunity to make progress here and we're giving it up because we have an idiot mayor
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
It’s too bad he’s an idiot :(
― silby, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
yeah the thing we're absolutely having confirmed rn is that deblasio is remarkably flopsweaty in crisis
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
America’s Mayo
― silby, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
do you guys remember when this guy actually ran for president
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
he has neither rose nor shone
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:16 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
driving around the park doing nothing
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
I once had to talk myself out of a jaywalking ticket in Los Angeles. I explained that I was from New York and only visiting L.A. for the summer and that (plus my whiteness) did the trick.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
― iatee, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:49 AM (six minutes ago)
Wow I don’t
― silby, Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
Can we hate-read all the essays mentioned here?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stop-writing-why-i-left-new-york-pandemic-essays_n_5e9fa07bc5b6b2e5b839dcd3?28q
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 23 April 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
no one has ever had an adequate explanation for deblasio. Ever.
― Ira Einhorn (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 23 April 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
The guy he was running against said we should kill kittens on the subway tracks (that man was right... but!)
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
― Virginia Plain, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:27 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
that mira jacob comic is just terrible. no thought of any value going on in there
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:39 (three years ago) link
all of jacob's work i've seen is not good, that is also not good
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
^^^^^ otm
― Ira Einhorn (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
years ago, early in bdb's administration, i had drinks with a (lefty) woman who's worked in city government for a while -- she was all like, bloomberg was a pain in the ass, but if he said something, you could be pretty sure it would happen. but even if di blasio weren't clueless, he's an absolutely shit executive
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
even a random half-assed political operative would have stopped the park slope Y thing years ago ffs
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 April 2020 01:55 (three years ago) link
Sad but true
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 April 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
This was so good. It happens to be about a restaurant but the general sentiments apply to so many NYC scenes, like existential dread for the future but also recognizing how exhausting it was to maintain some kind of integrity even before all this... https://t.co/tWOTI15tMB pic.twitter.com/ZYwYHjrIA9— Emily Witt (@embot) April 23, 2020
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 April 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
wow, yeah.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
went there last year (for the first time!!)
sensational article.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
yeah, the part that i read in the tweet is really great.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
Important Absentee Voting Update for June 23 Election. pic.twitter.com/oSR18JqZnf— NYCBoardOfElections (@BOENYC) April 24, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 April 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
I just submitted my form yesterday! This is, of course, better news.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link