is New York City dead?

Anyone have any tips on where these undisclosed locations are? They have to be on the waterfront somewhere around Manhattan right ? How could they keep this a secret?

Macy's Fireworks Are Playing at My House

unimaginable

last i heard nabes were gettin 'heads up' due to complaints by vets with PTSD

https://ny.eater.com/2020/6/29/21306893/indoor-dining-delay-nyc-coronavirus
this is probably the right call

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/a-black-market-fireworks-dealer-explains-this-years-boom

Last week, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a thin man in a white T-shirt and a wide-brimmed Chicago Bulls cap proudly popped the trunk of his Chevy Malibu. Inside, there were Golden Willows, Chain Reactions, Parachute Battal­ions, and Mini Artillery Shells—dozens of colorful boxes, one of them labelled “For Daytime Use!” This was what remained of the twelve hundred dollars’ worth of fireworks that the man, who asked not to be named, had purchased during a visit to Keystone Fireworks, in Pennsylvania, and then sold, for more than double the price, around Brooklyn. (Fireworks are illegal in New York State.) He takes calls for deliveries from ­regular customers, or parks on a busy street and does business, out of his car, with ­whoever stops by. “People have always done fireworks,” he said, “but they’re going harder than ever this year. They can’t wait to come ­outside.”

“The money’s good,” the man in the Bulls cap said. This year, he sold in two days what would have normally taken him two weeks.

His fireworks aren’t cheap; the ­fanciest ones in his trunk go for two hundred bucks. So most of his customers are adults—“people with money,” he said—rather than teen-agers. Nearly all of them are men. They tend to be in their late twen­ties or thirties, and sometimes, if they’re buying fireworks before the sun has set, they bring their kids with them. That night, the man gestured around at the neighborhood, which was coming off a four-month lockdown. “They’re celebrating,” he said of the people setting off the fireworks. “It’s definitely about freedom.”

“I hope not” was all he had to say when asked if he thought police were shooting off fireworks. “We don’t need any more drama around here.”

A few blocks over, a group of young men, probably in their twenties, launched a several-minutes-long blitz. They took turns darting from the sidewalk into the street to light streams of Roman candles, which they topped off with five-hundred-­gram “cakes”: the largest firework that can be legally used without a ­federal explosives permit. People watched from their apartment buildings. One neighbor leaned out his window and begged the group to stop; the fireworks were scaring his dog. “Fuck your dog!” one of the men yelled back at him. “We will shoot these shits at your house!” Moments later, a cop car rolled up, and the group retreated.

new york city . . . lives

New study of Covid seroprevalence in New York by @florian_krammer and team; finds that 1:5 New Yorkers likely already had SARS-CoV-2 by late April and the infection fatality rate in New York City was about 0.7%. https://t.co/ekqxUuhGwv

— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) June 29, 2020

finding it hard to believe regardless

Most of the estimates of ifr I saw that were being tossed about months ago based on Asian data were in the range of 0.5% to 1%. This fits.

1 in 5 though?

1 in 6 I think, obv far more likely

1 in 5 sounds like a lot but the important thing to note is that NYC wouldn't reach the coveted 'herd immunity' status until a bit less than 4 in 5 have had it. This finding only puts 'em a quarter of the way along. So, unless a vaccine comes along, you can take the current number of deaths in NYC and multiply by about 3 to get a rough estimate of how many more would likely die on the way to herd immunity, sans vaccine.

can't believe it's been over 4 months since i've been in NYC! i can't imagine when I will be in there again for work or otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPQ16Asyoo

sorry if this is stating the obvious but there's a large difference between 1% and 20%

20% is an estimated infection rate; 1% is estimated fatality rate

got it, the post didn't specify

From the documents, here's how the city council is characterizing the supposed $1B cut to the NYPD.

The tally I've seen counts $42M in increased traffic/parking enforcement revenue as a cut, toward the $1B total pic.twitter.com/aynFiT0bJi

— Yoav Gonen (@yoavgonen) June 30, 2020

hard to imagine how diblasio coulda fucked this up worse... everybody hates him now!

oh no, our luxury Avenue is being denigrated

NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the @NYCMayor is going to paint a big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury Avenue. This will further antagonize New York’s Finest, who LOVE New York & vividly remember the....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020

that might be the Trumpiest tweet ever

hard to imagine how diblasio coulda fucked this up worse... everybody hates him now!

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, June 30, 2020 3:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yeah he's even worse than the hated milk machine

suspect something Freudian with Trump's word choice

new york's finest love new york so much they live in different counties and states.

cops LOVE this one luxury avenue

suspect something Freudian with Trump's word choice

― below the mendoza (rip van wanko), Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:25 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh fuck just saw it

"no YOURE the racist how could you think that"

subconscious maybe or Stephen Miller's handiwork? hard to imagine him ptting that much thought into these inanities but who knows

Plenty to criticize NYC cops about, choosing not to live in NYC isn't one of them

can't believe they're gonna paint a YELLOW sign on luxurious fifth avenue

Plenty to criticize NYC cops about, choosing not to live in NYC isn't one of them

all cops everywhere should be required to live in the communities they ostensibly serve, and not actively wanting to should be a disqualifier

it's hard though when complaints force your relocation to another department

given that we are now about an hour in to July 5, perhaps we can stop with the motherfucking fireworks already

4:30 AM “wake up” call. Yup, I’m up now!

https://nypost.com/2020/07/04/more-than-1300-nyc-covid-19-victims-awaiting-burial-in-freezers

https://bklyner.com/new-york-jobless-face-new-woes-with-end-of-600-pandemic-unemployment-assistance/
dunno man, they need to address this in the next two weeks or there's gonna be a citywide rent strike

Where the f is everybody? Quiet today

People think it’s going to rain? Lightweights

weather is for old people

Right?

we are old people tho

i was hoping no one would notice

weather doesn’t exist

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ec0hChBXoAAeb08?format=jpg&name=large

AJ Parkinson would be proud

EUROPEANS

http://80s.nyc/

That's pretty cool. My neighborhood looked so much grottier back then. I wish the photos were a bit sharper though - they're like tantalizing glimpses.

WHY ARE THESE PHOTOS SO SMALL/GRAINY?

The Finance Department recorded each 1980s print as one frame on Laser Video Disks (LVDs), using analog video capture. When the Archives obtained possession of the photo set, they extracted low-resolution TIFF files of each LVD frame. This site uses the low-res JPG thumbnails of these TIFFs.

The underlying photos of individual buildings represented by these thumbnails won’t win any prizes for technical merit. They’re small, grainy, washed out and often the buildings might be unrecognizable. Still, taken as a whole, the thumbnails paint a distinctive picture of New York City in the 1980s – in many places, recovering from near-bankruptcy in the prior decade which left hulks of burned-out buildings and garbage-strewn lots; in other places, hanging on to the grandeur and glory of the greatest city in the world.