went there last year (for the first time!!)
sensational article.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
yeah, the part that i read in the tweet is really great.
― Yerac, Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:49 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
The guy he was running against said we should kill kittens on the subway tracks
also that Bloomberg servant/bellowing horror Christine Quinn
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
too-literal take on the thread titlehttps://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
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
and tacking back to less horrifichttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-liquor-stores-nyc.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
and the more predictablehttps://thecity.nyc/2020/04/garbage-pickups-tell-tale-of-two-cities-as-manhattan-shrinks.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 April 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
icymi
https://gothamist.com/food/third-nyc-food-pantries-have-closed-swelling-bread-lines-during-coronavirus-lockdown
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 April 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
about fucking time
https://gothamist.com/news/crowded-hasidic-funeral-williamsburg-coordinated-approved-nypd
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
brad lander otm:"Leading with policing to address a public health crisis is just not the answer"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/05/01/missing-sounds-of-new-york
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 1 May 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
Socially distanced. Spiritually connected.— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) May 1, 2020
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 May 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
thank God Andy's too reptilian to be president, eh
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 May 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
Probably yeah.
― o. nate, Friday, 1 May 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
don't tempt fate...
― Nhex, Friday, 1 May 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
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/
― o. nate, Friday, 1 May 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
woof
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/nyregion/coronavirus-flowers-bodies.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 May 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
Just wanna have some fried chicken
― calstars, Saturday, 16 May 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
So looks like I am officially one of those leaving NYC people, moving to westchester
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
Here's your hat.
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
NO MORE BIRYANI FLASHY FOR U! BYE SUCKA LOL
― calstars, Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
lol, calstars
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
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.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
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.
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
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
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 May 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 28 May 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link
¯\_(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
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
"Some people are going to be murdered, some are not. It's New York! Fuhgeddatboutit!"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI
― Trouble Is My Métier (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 May 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
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
― Josefa, Friday, 29 May 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
about 85% of why i am here is on hold
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 29 May 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
yup
― Trouble Is My Métier (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 May 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
same phenomenon in London. a lot of people wfh every day asking themselves, why am i here in this pokey apartment?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 May 2020 07:54 (three years ago) link
not my kind of place, but: foley's is closing for good
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 May 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
Not NYC, but mookie may appreciate: DC's Post Pub is closing for good
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 29 May 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
i don't think i ever went there! as long as the big hunt still lives . . .
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 May 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Post Pub was more divey, despite location.
Hard to imagine the big hunt kicking it, but who knows?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 30 May 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
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
― octobeard, Saturday, 30 May 2020 08:21 (three years ago) link
thrilled to get a curfew alert in my hospital bed
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
NYC police scanner has been pretty crazy to listen to right now
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 03:55 (three years ago) link
that's here btw: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/32890
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
not seeing any other way to read mass arrests and looting downtown other than as a total clusterfuck; curfew appears to have escalated the situation radically.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
Shocking!
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 04:36 (three years ago) link
it was a phenomenally dumb move. Sounds like a major peaceful protest in Brooklyn came off without a problem but Manhattan got ugly.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
and now these fuckers are going to stage an 8pm curfew for tuesdayi am in full on "can't sleep clown will eat me" mode. no idea how this city and its people are going to recover over the next few weeks.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link