is New York City dead?

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"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

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.

Shocking!

it was a phenomenally dumb move. Sounds like a major peaceful protest in Brooklyn came off without a problem but Manhattan got ugly.

and now these fuckers are going to stage an 8pm curfew for tuesday
i 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.

the areas being hit - soho, union square, herald square - are predominantly the homes of the rich and hang out spots for tourists and knucklehead teenagers; it's gotta be like 95% the latter doing the looting.

Feels like a very organized effort tonight - kids have turned up with hammers and big bags, they have spotters on the corners and cars ready to go. Group of about 500 kids now running up Fifth Ave looting whatever they want pic.twitter.com/vP97YCLis7

— Rachel Olding (@rachelolding) June 2, 2020

which is to say - and i know i'm preaching to the choir here but it feels worth noting - that the protestors are not driving or motivating this looting

Some young men just tried to loot an Aldo on 5th Ave when other protesters grabbed them, pulled one guy out the store window, and made them stop. An argument about looting then ensued. #NYCProtest #GeorgeFloyd pic.twitter.com/cQaG7GHMtR

— Liam Stack (@liamstack) June 1, 2020

I’m rooting for the looters. Those kids are having fun out there.

i could give a shit about macy's but those kids having fun out there are allowing nyc residents and world media to associate anti-brutality protests with smash-and-grab robberies which couldn't be more counterproductive.

bonus: a significant number of those kids having fun out there are gonna get their heads cracked open and/or potentially catch a felony when nypd decides to go over the tapes.

and hey not for nothing but given that we've all been in full quarantine lockdown in this city for nearly three months and we've just had a buffet of local violent attacks by the cops on protesters, maybe full-on fucking looting in manhattan is maybe a bit more anarchy than any of us are down for at this precise moment.

silby for presidetn

God forbid

I don’t think my “property crime is fine” plank is much of a winner

abolish property, eradicate property crime

garnish police brass wages to insure looted businesses

Fifth Ave chains can all burn with my blessing

Police scanner was invaluable last night

Fifth Ave chains can all burn with my blessing

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, June 2, 2020 4:58 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

basically how i feel about looting in manhattan

tourism insurance

stay in Red states where you belong

where will the clothes live now

big box stores

and on white trash asses

Always me with my banal concerns but 8 pm tonight is fucking early for a curfew. Where is this giant puppy supposed to take his last piss!

not sure i understand the purpose or efficacy of curfews given the past few days, other than terrorizing your own populace of course

Criminalizing same, mostly.

u good, bro xxp

deBlasio defending cops to hilt when his own daughter was arrested fascinates me in a sick way

horrible asshole

An emotional ⁦@NYPDChiefofDept⁩ tells ⁦@JoshEiniger7⁩ that it’s time to get the agitators “out of here” - “from California, from all over this country, who are being paid to take this movement, which is a good movement, and turn it into violence.” ⁦@ABC7NY⁩ pic.twitter.com/Zz87dA3UDT

— Morena Basteiro (@morenabasteiro) June 1, 2020

Zephyr for mayor

"Under a Program presented by de Blasio, police spending accounted for only 0.3 percent of out-year budget savings; 34 percent of the spending reductions came from … cuts to education."

Can we get to 2/3rds of the Council for a just budget?https://t.co/NKcNsgzfgO

— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) June 2, 2020

jon i am inclined to think that a white guy with a dog on a leash within a block of his home is less likely to be harassed than anyone, you should be okay

big box stores
and on white trash asses
fifth avenue chains
reified in praxis

Bergdorf Goodman
Saks Fifth Ave
Badgley Mischka
I can have

Nobody's voting for this guy right?

!!! @RepEliotEngel heard on hot mic asking @rubendiazjr for a turn to speak, says twice, "If I didn't have a primary, I wouldn't care."

Diaz responds, "Don't do that to me."

(h/t @News12BX livestream) pic.twitter.com/eQnkzLiEId

— Emily Ngo (@emilyngo) June 2, 2020

Washington Square Park, Manhattan New York June 2nd 2:40pm #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/KewRgGu7Io

— Steven Thomas (@stevendotthomas) June 2, 2020

excited to find out how many delivery/restaurant people get vanished by NYPD/ICE tonite

Cuomo is really a much savvier fascist than Trump