is New York City dead?

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

three different incidents btw. there's been at least a half dozen of these with no one killed yet, but let's keep trying!

make outdoor dining permanent, ban cars

otm

yes! all in favor! however, that is not being discussed, either in that article or in real life!

make me the mayor then

done

brb, establishing 17 various "aggro dipshit" taxes on the NYPBA

I learned yesterday that breweries have a less strict food serving requirement and can get away with just a bag of chips with a drink

Century 21 is closing all stores

Ugh

where am i gonna get my armani t shirts and bedazzled boot cut jeans at bargain prices now

honestly thought they closed a few years ago

make outdoor dining daylight saving time permanent, ban cars

:)

the mayor also endorses staying on daylight saving time

just curious, I haven't been to NYC in years, but was Century 21 destroyed in 9/11 or just damaged?

If I recall correctly It was closed for awhile like everything else down there but wasn’t damaged

https://gothamist.com/news/pandemic-economy-could-turn-deserted-hudson-yards-even-bigger-taxpayer-money-pit

that place was horrible before the pandemic

I say wall it off permanently, for the quarantined and convalescing

i'm voting lazer tag

would prefer paintball, with bunkers like Vera Wang Bridal House—but yes that'll do

I’m into dead malls and such so it’s right down my alley, been meaning to go back since it reopened

i have no particular insight into whether nyc schools *should* be open for in-person classes -- i suspect not, but i don't have to balance the other considerations besides everyone's health. but suddenly changing your mind three days before schools were to reopen is just fucking with people

he is so bad at literally everything

presumably it's a combination of the union and his terribleness at negotiating with the union or with anyone really

My impression is that there are bad conditions in a minority of classrooms that could probably be remedied with a portable HEPA filter or something (i.e classes in old buildings where there are neither HVAC systems nor windows that open). I have also seen that the MORE caucus of the UFT is making unreasonable demands (MERV-17 filters and ACH 6 in every class, which is basically the conditions of a state-of-the-art operating room or precision robotics lab, and very hard to achieve). I am normally very pro-teachers union, but I really feel that the teachers here are kicking the can down the road and trying to avoid going in for as long as possible, and while I can't *entirely* blame them, it's not realistic to wait to reopen schools until there's a vaccine, and experts say we can return safely with modest precautions.

Kicking the can down the road until other school systems all around us and around the country collapse and go back to distanced/digital classes is EXACTLY the point. I knew that when the union treated the 11-day delay like a win in the press. There was nothing substantive that 11 days was going to to allow them to do--they can't hire 2x the qualified staff, they can't find more money, they can't renovate buildings or rebuild windows or HVAC systems in that time--so what was the point? The delay was the whole reason, because cases are going to cascade when students start to gather, and schools everywhere are going to go back to 100% online.

My second school is one of the 56 (so far) schools where a staff member has tested positive before kids even start. So multiple staff are quarantined bc of potential contact, and the remainder had their building wifi crash. Instead of getting the wifi fixed, they were told to go down the street and work from out of my first school, but because they don't know who's potentially asymptomatic, they won't go in the building because it puts the OTHER school's staff at risk, so they're teaching from folding tables on the cement play yard. Fantastic.