is New York City dead?

they're teaching from folding tables on the cement play yard

def a practice to replace before February

https://www.curbed.com/2020/9/28/21492749/heres-what-we-know-about-the-guy-who-dumped-two-sacks-of-eels-into-prospect-park-lake

"is that all eels?"
"yeah like i bought them from the store"
"yeah but that's like a hundred eels"
"I don't care"

Here is a video from the bystander- “Yo you’re not supposed to be dumping eels here dude” https://t.co/uVAERyNF8S pic.twitter.com/gDMs8c5QXB

— chelsea lee greenwood (@ChelseaLee) September 28, 2020

amazing

gross!

have those who left New York come back? it appears ... not.

Manhattan's residential trash is still way down as of August. almost everywhere else, it's up.https://t.co/chj4N1hKAw pic.twitter.com/qK7MYUERk8

— Rachel Holliday Smith (@rachelholliday) September 28, 2020

i want to move to manhattan!

Meanwhile:
https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/brooklyn-home-sales-boom-as-manhattan-market-struggles/

I live in Nassau County and real estate in our tiny village is crazy right now with people leaving the 5 boroughs.

My brother & his partner just sold their house in Durham for the asking price in like 4 days, to a family from NYC apparently.

anyway VOTE EARLY NYC
https://www.voteearlyny.org/

This piece is weeks old but not linked here I think? And it's so badly argued that it makes me feel like New York City can't actually be dead if this guy thinks it's dead

https://medium.com/@jaltucher/nyc-is-dead-forever-heres-why-1b4646dc5e03

I cringed when I saw the name James Altucher but then I couldn't remember how I know of him or why I dislike him

yeah, this was the guy that Seinfeld responded to in the NYT, fuck em both imo

Guy better not show his punk face around my block

I cringed when I saw the name James Altucher but then I couldn't remember how I know of him or why I dislike him

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, October 1, 2020 11:18 AM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

reminds me of frau blucher *horses whinny*

#UPDATE: A source confirms that Steve Barnes (of Cellino & Barnes) and a female relative were on the plane that crashed in Genesee County.
There are no survivors. pic.twitter.com/jC9YvF6U3e

— Jeannie McBride (@jeanniemcbride_) October 2, 2020

I wonder if Cellino has an alibi.

RIP TO AN ICON

damn, I just read the New York mag's behind-the-scenes-of-the-breakup piece
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/cellino-and-barnes-breakup.html

Every NY Post story about Manhattan from now on should describe events as taking place “within miles of where Rick Moranis was assaulted” https://t.co/kIvA0f4GW4

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 9, 2020

"Have you been to that new falafel place in Queens that's 1.3 miles from where Rick Moranis was assaulted?"

(i have a friend who had a computer date with Rick Moranis who said he was a heavy MAGA-head. it was not a love match)

I want to move to wherever Elizabeth moss is

Greenpoint @NYCferry stop out of commission ‘indefinitely’ bc the developer sold the property. This isn’t how public transit functions.

And here’s how commuters are being notified this morning: from a boat operater calling out to people as the ferry goes by. Seriously @NYCEDC? pic.twitter.com/KNU7QQdy83

— Elizabeth Adams (@ElizabAdams) October 19, 2020

The ferry is kind of a disaster any way. EDC/ the mayor plugging in millions of its rent revenue into it, which usually goes to City's general fund. That money would really come in handy during a crisis.
And of course the ferries serve almost a predominately high income clientele
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/10/01/icymi-de-blasio-plugged-debt-spouting-ferry-service-with-millions-from-times-square/

DeBlasio of course grew up in Cambridge MA, assume that is well-known

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, June 13, 2020 12:13 AM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

As I understand it, this is a free country. A man can live where he wants.

― peace, man, Saturday, June 13, 2020 8:39 AM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

My Spike Lee reference was criminally unappreciated here. Maybe NYC really is dead.

"Have you been to that new falafel place in Queens that's 1.3 miles from where Rick Moranis was assaulted?"

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, October 9, 2020 11:10 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Moran-Eleven Never Forget

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-10-20/judge-rules-nyc-crosswalks-fail-to-protect-blind-pedestrians

🚨A federal court (SDNY, Engelmayer, J.) holds NYC in violation of fed & local law by making its crosswalks inaccessible to the vision-impaired.

"Unable to reliably locate crosswalks or time their crossing, they risk being hit by cars."

Remedy to follow.https://t.co/kyVBFse1Xh pic.twitter.com/wCXyb6Lvr3

— Greg Shill (@greg_shill) October 20, 2020

I think we all have to agree that the answer to the titular question is now "yes"

yes

Yeah more than ever

Astor Place Hair is closing. This isn't the absolute death knell, but it's gotta be damn close. They were there for over 70 years.

Oh man. Haven’t been in years but went through a phase where that was my spot.

Got my first nyc haircut there in '96. It's true, something will feel very out of whack without them down those steps.

fuck, that's the place i got my first haircut in nyc and the place where i got my last pre-covid haircut. i may well never get my hair cut in a salon again.

I remember it costing $7 for a fade. Loved that place.

There was another place not far from there, on Prince, an ancient barber shop with a stack of old Playboys on a little side table. I got my hair cut there once and when I asked the geezer who ran the place how much to pay him he kinda shrugs and goes 'whatever you think.' I think I paid him $5, he didn't complain.

$5? Hope this was in 1972

i was not a rich man at the time, what can i say.

My childhood barbershop upstate also had a stack of Playboys (on a bookshelf!). First place I ever saw one.

and they said the real old new york was dead!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-election-board.html

Gotta love it when “bungling” makes the headline

it lives!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/new-york-city-sinkhole-rats-man-falls

I like this accompanying story from May

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/25/us-city-lockdowns-rat-aggression-lack-food-waste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODDYP-b7oY

the video on that dude falling through the sidewalk is terrifying
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/10/26/bronx-sidewalk-collapse-video-greg-white/

pretty devastating story
https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/11/rip-chhapte-sherpa-russ-and-daughters.html

I feel like the mythology of NY has been built up so much over the past 20 years that even as the city craters economically, young people will still want to come here, mitigating the collapse to some extent

only if their parents subsidize the rent