is New York City dead?

de Blasio, NYPD clear Occupy City Hall

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-clears-occupy-city-hall-pre-dawn-raid

de blasio retire bitch

queens bringing some masala to the legislature!!!! https://t.co/25bBXU7bSQ

— fainan 🧹 (@socialistfai) July 22, 2020

https://ny.eater.com/2020/8/5/21354365/nyc-prospect-park-homemade-cocktail-sale

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/nyregion/nyc-economy-chain-stores.html

“There’s no reason to do business in New York,” Mr. Weinstein said. “I can do the same volume in Florida in the same square feet as I would have in New York, with my expenses being much less. The idea was that branding and locations were important, but the expense of being in this city has overtaken the marketing group that says you have to be there.”

For four months, the Victoria’s Secret flagship store at Herald Square in Manhattan has been closed and not paying its $937,000 monthly rent. “It will be years before retail has even a chance of returning to New York City in its pre-Covid form,” the retailer’s parent company recently told its landlord in a legal document.

unrelated but still:
https://ny.eater.com/2020/8/11/21361791/sour-patch-kids-store-opens-noho

The company’s first brick-and-mortar operations includes plans for a candy-fueled cafe, slinging unasked-for creations like a milkshake topped with a slice of rainbow cake and Sour Patch Kids-flavored cookie dough, the latter of which has been created in partnership with popular cookie dough brand Do.

not paying its $937,000 monthly rent

welcome to the resistance

“ not paying its $937,000 monthly rent. “It will be years before retail has even a chance of returning to New York City in its pre-Covid form,” the retailer’s parent company recently told its landlord in a legal document.”

stfu dingdong

so yeah why would anyone wan't to live in NYC at this point?

Sigh big retail is gone there Goes the neighborhood

what exactly is going to fill those spaces is my question, more overpriced office buildings after people have been working remote for most of the year?

paying crazy rent in a tiny apt to do what this winter when there isn't even outside dining or outside activities?

I have a colleague who predicts unoccupied retail spaces are going to be taken over by well-armed homeless people during the next few months

Hmm. I don’t think anyone has ever considered such a perspective! Go on...

Xp to carne

fuck me for bring it up then! you got it all figured out no need to discuss further

obviously no one has it figured out and obviously there's some big questions we're all asking each other at the same time.
one of those questions is decidedly not "how will victoria's secret survive"

lol

Sorry carne, just spitting some trash

i don't give one fuck about those stores. Im just here wondering wtf i'm doing paying out of my ass to live within a 20 min train ride of a place i don't see myself going back to either for work or any other reason anytime soon.

Testify!

on the other hand i always hear the stories from old school New Yorkers of how wild and awesome 80's nyc was. maybe we'll get back to that and i can vibe

bad news, all the old school wild awesomeness depended on strangers gathering in interior spaces

also coke

also Koch

Now we’re taking!

Talking

Manhattan keeps on making it,
Brooklyn keeps on taking it
Bronx keeps creating it,
and Queens keeps on faking it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLVlIJmYaS8

this motherfucker

Ice cream truck keeps plowing into NYC street barrier https://t.co/j2Sqyus6jj pic.twitter.com/QBR0OzUNIQ

— New York Post (@nypost) August 12, 2020

that's exactly what i figured he'd look like

Street closings are routinely disregarded from what I’ve seen. Some people get uppity and try to close them off again after the barricades have been moved but a minute later some other douche with a car comes and decides that the closure is not applicable to him so he moves the barricades ...and so forth

yeah I'm pretty aggro about setting them back up in my area but it's gotten to the point where I can really only worry about my section of the world. setting barricades back up in deep carrol gardens is disheartening

BdB admits there could be 22,000 layoffs, none of them cops

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/08/12/de-blasio-threat-of-22-000-layoffs-is-painfully-real-1307983

This Mayor🤦🏾‍♂️- a few things (THREAD):

- Sunset Park is one of the hardest hit communities by COVID-19

- Nearly half its residents are immigrants, and 3/4 people of color

- It's been neglected for years by the Mayor, and now is being underfunded by the Council b/c of politics https://t.co/NlzUjJKhFa

— Carlos Menchaca 萬齊家 (@NYCCouncil38) August 12, 2020

menchaca (generally) otm

https://gothamist.com/food/de-blasio-turns-his-back-chinatown-bakery-manager-he-pleads-help

A bakery manager tells de Blasio that his business is suffering from reduced foot traffic in Chinatown: “We’re all hurting.” pic.twitter.com/9qCLi2IOXX

— elizabeth meryl rosner (@elizameryl) August 11, 2020

“That’s very unfortunate,” responds the mayor as he turns his back on the young man.

— elizabeth meryl rosner (@elizameryl) August 11, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1CJuzpuca4

Young man, there's a place you can go
I said, young man, when you're short on your dough

please allow me to resubmit:

As the mayor told the baker: “Young man, there’s a place you can go when you’re short on your dough”.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/opinion/jerry-seinfeld-new-york-coronavirus.html

this is like if nyt just had a field on the Op Ed page where readers could paste in their own pieces

Millionaire takes other lesser-known millionaire to task for not being optimistic enough

https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/08/car-runs-into-outdoor-dining-upper-east-side.html
this is gonna happen again with fatalities.

Fucking ban cars in the city already

rt

another one that takes the thread title seriously
https://gothamist.com/news/high-tech-tool-city-testing-air-quality-public-schools-toilet-paper

i can only upload 140 seconds of it, but the full version can be found on facebook. DM me if you’d like, i can see if i can send the full through there. pic.twitter.com/Q3yY1y9vEv

— the DOE wants us dead (@dianadoesnt) August 26, 2020

Update: "Ventilation Action Teams are comprised of licensed professional engineers who are analyzing building ventilation components to determine if they are functioning and what, if any, repairs must be made," DOE spokesperson Nathaniel Styer said in a statement. "This includes a 'tissue test' which is a CDC recommended way of determining airflow. Air quality tests will be conducted with certified CO2 readers. The Council Member should reach out to us with his concerns before jumping to conclusions on the internet."

IOW, yes we use toilet paper to test ventilation and we are proud of it

https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/09/make-expanded-outdoor-dining-permanent-in-nyc.html

what could possibly go wro-
https://people.com/human-interest/car-crashes-outdoor-dining-area-nyc-3-injured/
https://nypost.com/2020/08/27/video-shows-woman-hit-by-car-while-dining-outdoors-in-nyc/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OSw6wHN0RM