is New York City dead?

even a random half-assed political operative would have stopped the park slope Y thing years ago ffs

Sad but true

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

wow, yeah.

went there last year (for the first time!!)

sensational article.

yeah, the part that i read in the tweet is really great.

Important Absentee Voting Update for June 23 Election. pic.twitter.com/oSR18JqZnf

— NYCBoardOfElections (@BOENYC) April 24, 2020

I just submitted my form yesterday! This is, of course, better news.

The guy he was running against said we should kill kittens on the subway tracks

also that Bloomberg servant/bellowing horror Christine Quinn

too-literal take on the thread title
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/04/22/cemetery-races-to-keep-up-as-new-york-virus-deaths-mount

http://brooklyneagle.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/AP20112021595311-scaled-e1587499694234.jpg

and tacking back to less horrific
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-liquor-stores-nyc.html

and the more predictable
https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/garbage-pickups-tell-tale-of-two-cities-as-manhattan-shrinks.html

icymi

https://gothamist.com/food/third-nyc-food-pantries-have-closed-swelling-bread-lines-during-coronavirus-lockdown

about fucking time

https://gothamist.com/news/crowded-hasidic-funeral-williamsburg-coordinated-approved-nypd

brad lander otm:
"Leading with policing to address a public health crisis is just not the answer"

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/05/01/missing-sounds-of-new-york

Socially distanced. Spiritually connected.

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) May 1, 2020

thank God Andy's too reptilian to be president, eh

Probably yeah.

don't tempt fate...

NY Review of Books has it about right:

Prior to the pandemic, his reputation was that of a top-dog machine politician par excellence—a bullying, controlling, charmless power broker, reviled by progressives, accepted by Republicans, and tolerated by the rest

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/05/14/andrew-cuomo-emergency-responder/

woof

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/nyregion/coronavirus-flowers-bodies.html

when the nyse reopens, it will ban people who took public transit to get there

jfc

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/05/15/the-coming-carmaggeddon-will-our-leaders-solve-nycs-transportation-problem

Just wanna have some fried chicken

So looks like I am officially one of those leaving NYC people, moving to westchester

I don't know if I was ever really an NYC person, but the one appeal of the city -- supposedly a music scene and lots of musicians to play with -- became increasingly fleeting, as the neighborhood I could afford to live in with my family, even on a lawyer and teacher's salary, had few musicians, no practice spaces, and no places to play. This feeling was sealed talking to a friend in the town I'm moving to, who says he actually finds it easier both to find other musicians and make friends in the town he lives in now than he did in Brooklyn.

Here's your hat.

NO MORE BIRYANI FLASHY FOR U! BYE SUCKA LOL

ironically, the city may now become cheaper and more habitable for musicians again. I honestly hope it does! It's just not for me anymore, working dad me trying to raise kids etc.

lol, calstars

when i lived in nyc - late 90s, early 2000s - it was pretty terrible for live music for exactly the reasons you mention, man alive. there were a few venues downtown (luna lounge, brownie's, arlene's etc) and some weird warehousy spaces in brooklyn but practice spaces were hard to find and expensive.

I went to Astoria Soundworks for the last time right before the lockdown, wonder if they are still open in some capacity, website doesn't say they are closed.

yeah even then I remember it being tough, or at least early 2000s, which was sort of the peak of my band life. There were still more venues and practice spaces than there are now, but there was this feeling that, compared to other cities, no one really gave a shit about you unless you were the hype of the moment, not much of a sense of "scene" or ease of developing a following. There were the Todd P and other DIY type shows, and I'm sure there's some equivalent now that I'm just not keyed into as an old guy, but I'm not even talking about being in a "real band" and being in a "scene" anymore, I just mean having a fucking basement so people can come over to play, instead of, like, booking a 2-hour window two weeks in advance and having to split up the payment five ways and drive 20 minutes to get there and spend another 20 minutes looking for parking, and then looking at booking shows at some crap bar in a different borough because it's the only place you can find that would book you easily.

This is how all of these issues are related - closing the beaches, closing pools, closing cooling centers, not opening up more space outside for people. It's all related. It's an urban system that is failing because the person in charge doesn't understand how the system functions

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) May 27, 2020

People Like Amy Cooper Are Why I Left New York City

Newark is awesome. I hope people like Amy Cooper stay scared of it forever.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"For the next few months, people are going to make their own choices. Some people are going to be comfortable on mass transit, some are not." -@BilldeBlasio

— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) May 28, 2020

"Some people are going to be murdered, some are not. It's New York! Fuhgeddatboutit!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI

It's the repertory movie theaters and the restaurants that are keeping me here

― Josefa, Friday, May 10, 2019 9:13 PM (one year ago)

Welp

about 85% of why i am here is on hold

yup

same phenomenon in London. a lot of people wfh every day asking themselves, why am i here in this pokey apartment?

not my kind of place, but: foley's is closing for good

Not NYC, but mookie may appreciate: DC's Post Pub is closing for good

i don't think i ever went there! as long as the big hunt still lives . . .

Post Pub was more divey, despite location.

Hard to imagine the big hunt kicking it, but who knows?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/frustrated-and-struggling-new-yorkers-contemplate-abandoning-the-city-they-love/2020/05/25/153ca71e-9c5b-11ea-a2b3-5c3f2d1586df_story.html

thrilled to get a curfew alert in my hospital bed

NYC police scanner has been pretty crazy to listen to right now

that's here btw: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/32890