is New York City dead?

Lander and Williams are my NY pols of choice

the great dream is for De Blasio to resign, which would make Williams the mayor. sigh.

apparently in December Williams said that he wouldn't be running for mayor in 2021?

i guess the city really is dead

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZw51OgXkAIrT0N?format=jpg&name=small

lady i've never heard of doesn't want to live here is okay by me

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WhoppingNaturalGardensnake-max-1mb.gif

she's a federalist person who once wrote We Need To Start Befriending Neo Nazis

a beckyexodus would kill nyc

bexodus

bexit, obvs
it would kill sephora at least

she also got "grandma killer" trending on twitter

‘82 vibes around the city

BdB a drowning man

https://gothamist.com/news/heres-full-transcript-mayor-de-blasio-brian-lehrer-show

not sure what it's going to take. maybe a walkout by his entire staff? seems possible

he'll only resign if cuomo tells him not to

on repeat, a balm for the soul

“New York City is Trump country now! Get me outta here and you win a prize!”

Someone won the prize. pic.twitter.com/GmeRZlfZK3

— Damon Young (@damonayoung) June 5, 2020

haha brainless fuck

Lol I expected that to be way more violent

This curfew blows

that dude looks like dril

You know what the title of that book should be? "Yes, I Can If Andrew Cuomo Says It's OK". 'Cause Andrew calls the shots for all of those guys. Did you get to the part yet where uh...Bill is coming out of the Copa... it's about 3 o'clock in the morning and, uh, he sees Andrew? Andrew's walking down Broadway by himself...

<puts up dividing window>

The curfew is creepy as fuck

Purge alarm on my phone every night at 7:30. Hate this year.

how many years in a row have we said fuck this year. is it 4, or more

I've been saying it since 2014, for various personal reasons. the last year I'd consider "good" for me was 2012. Not saying that as a 'joek' either.

kinda explains why my alcohol intake increased around that same time.

We live in an endless 2016

kinda feels like it sometimes. weirdly enough in October of 2016, I was finally starting to feel better than I had in a long time, only for November to permanently ruin that

come on guys let's flatten the curve we can do this before 2037 https://t.co/aPRYVAJNui pic.twitter.com/zWgG2stpu1

— justin jacoby smith (@hoosteen) June 5, 2020

Blas lifts tonight's curfew

Timothy "STEEN" Levitch in The HOOS

No transportation plan, no bus lanes, no bike lanes, but you don’t have to move the car you never use. What a failure. https://t.co/iW7XHF9mXC

— Doug Gordon (@BrooklynSpoke) June 7, 2020

TBF, hasn't DeBlasio created a bunch of bike and bus lanes?

lmao

I mean I hate the fucker too, but I know he added bike lanes running the length of queens blvd for example

sorry man alive, your question was sincere and deserves a real answer. basically he has dropped the ball completely on bike lanes, compared to any city of the same size and resources and even compared to the bloomberg administration. look at what the mayor of Paris has been doing for example - a massive, comprehensive, and infrastructurally useful bike network being very rapidly rolled out as part of an actual vision for what they want urban life to be like. in NYC, admittedly there's been some progress on bus lanes, but it's largely not coming from the mayor, who wishes and washes publicly anytime it comes up. in practice he has been a huge obstacle by constantly falling back on "we'll have to look closely at that" and letting community boards block needed improvements on a slow, slow case-by-case basis, instead of saying "my department of transportation has been instructed to put out a master plan."

and both bus lanes and bike lanes depend on enforcement to be effective, so that they are not constantly full of parked cars and/or parked cop cars. but because traffic enforcement was merged with the NYPD in the 90s, enforcement would require the mayor giving orders to the police department, the mere thought of which will lead BDB to weeks of waking up in cold sweats, after which he emerges as if from a fever dream with no memory of the terribly traumatic thought that prompted it all. meanwhile of course such efforts would also require seeing the city as something that people get around with without the use of private automobiles, which is utterly foreign to the mayor's lived experience. note how that tweet describes a less onerous car-ownership status quo as one that "make(s) life a little easier for all of us." all? this is a city in which only 45% of households own cars and only 27% of workers use a car, truck or van for their daily commute. the only way suspending alternate side parking benefits "all" of us is less car noise and exhaust, at the expense of garbage accumulating in the streets and blocking the storm drains because the street sweepers aren't running. he's a driver and identifies with drivers. in terms of transportation policy, he might as well have just run for Mayor of Staten Island.

if you want more invective along these lines, follow @StreetsBlogNYC, @2AvSagas, and/or @BrooklynSpoke on Twitter - pretty much a daily stream of ways the mayor is failing us on transportation issues, and what he could be doing instead.

booming post doc

^

cosign!! go off DC!

in general fuck cars

lol SAY IT DOCTOR.

There's literally a whole ig account of just cop cars parked in bike lanes, that's how stupid it all is.

this is a city in which only 45% of households own cars

this is startlingly high tbh!

https://edc.nyc/sites/default/files/filemanager/CarOwnership.jpg

https://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/legacy/2012/05/16/20120516-map-nyc.jpg

Ta!

It's not that striking when you see how many areas have poor or no subway access.

Also when you look at the difficulty of commutes that are not __ to central parts of manhattan (brooklyn-queens, queens-bronx, etc.)

I meant startling to a person who has visited the city four or five times :)

fun fact: car ownership is higher in san francisco than it is in los angeles.

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