is New York City dead?

also you don't need the "." at the start any more

Mercury Lounge building is listed for sale: https://t.co/15PF5QK5q0 pic.twitter.com/5FD8UGNdwI

— BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) March 19, 2021

oh wow! first place I ever saw a live show in NYC

i was there right before lockdown to see kassa overall

Just got a chilling email from Spike W about how Smalls just dodged a serious bullet.

Yeah, I retweeted that. Shit was fucked up. I mean, of all venues to go after, Smalls?

Now they got this fsck jerry Seinfeld making safety announcements on the platform. Shut up you rich asshole

not dead yet

I thought i had seen every possible obstacle in the #bikenyc lane but this city never ceases to surprise me pic.twitter.com/MIyWKOOAeg

— Jared Paul (@jaredjaredpaul) March 23, 2021

why is there always some dick sitting in the middle of the bicycle lane

Sitting here in queens
Eating refried beans

That’s been like my theme song forever

I have multiple affinities

Huge expansions of vaccine eligibility in NYS coming up: 30 and over can make appointments starting tomorrow 3/30, and 16+ starting 4/6.

NYC peeps over 30 lookin to get jabbed: here are some good bots to follow for appointments! got mine in Feb with their help. @nycshotslots @turbovax @nyvaccine if there are others please reply in this thread!

— rachel handler (@rachel_handler) March 29, 2021

hot vax summer y'all

Ha ha well I guess it’s good I just made an appointment today?

i look forward to spending a week or two hitting refresh

Remote Work Is Here to Stay. Manhattan May Never Be the Same.
New York City, long buoyed by the flow of commuters into its towering office buildings, faces a cataclysmic challenge, even when the pandemic ends.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/nyregion/remote-work-coronavirus-pandemic.html

THE NON-COMMUTERS
KILLED NYC

😱

Thank christ. Commuting is absolutely thankless. It's an hour each way including a long walk, working up a sweat, then standing up, sweaty, packed in with cranky people who haven't had caffeine yet. Let's never go back. One or two days a week max in the office (if any) and no meetings before 11am.

That article made me wonder why I've been limiting myself to applying for jobs in this part of the country. (I do still apply for jobs from time to time.) I feel like I should just pick a part of the country that I might conceivably want to live in, get a remote job there, and move at some indeterminate future date.

I agree. Goodbye and good riddance to the daily commute. I wonder how it will reshape Manhattan though, especially Midtown and the Financial District. Maybe it will be possible to find a good, reasonably priced restaurant for dinner in Midtown again.

No line at halal guys :)

Mine has a branded tub of Fireball miniatures https://t.co/1pX9WLunQZ

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) March 30, 2021

The wiiiife and i have been seriously brown bagging it for the last year and let me tell you we do not intend to stop

open container laws are a fucking joke

what IS up with all the Fireball at counters all of a sudden? some new idea by their local sales managers, or did some mafiosos take possession of a truckload?

I agree. Goodbye and good riddance to the daily commute. I wonder how it will reshape Manhattan though, especially Midtown and the Financial District. Maybe it will be possible to find a good, reasonably priced restaurant for dinner in Midtown again.

― o. nate, Monday, March 29, 2021 9:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

As much as I don't like midtown and FiDi, it's hard for me to imagine things not getting bad in those areas in the short to medium term, like I just don't see how you quickly repurpose that much office space, and I don't see how you get enough traffic into those areas to support businesses without the office space.

without that office space being occupied I mean, obv

This can of beer and a large paper coffee cup, please

I agree. Goodbye and good riddance to the daily commute. I wonder how it will reshape Manhattan though, especially Midtown and the Financial District. Maybe it will be possible to find a good, reasonably priced restaurant for dinner in Midtown again.

The New York state legislature formally voted to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana for adults and expunge the records of people previously convicted of possession.

make it the new W33d District

Hamsterdam

New Hamsterdam

happy legal weed day

No more Pyramid Club.

First NYC bar I ever set foot in. It was that and Babyland down Avenue A the same night.

Places I thought were already .....

Yeah I probably should have dropped in there at some point in the past 20 years. See what happens.

get out there and drop dem tens

We went once, sometime in the past 6ish years, out of nostalgia. It was the classic 80s night and it was a bit like a theme park in a sad way.

walked around chelsea for a half hour today, it's fucking bleak out there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/nyregion/nyc-population-pandemic-recovery.html

many VAX avail at Javitz apparently (1030AM, Friday 4/2)

There has been temporary dislocation, but I think it’s mostly a phenomenon among people who have the resources to move. If you ask me what the real threat to the city is, I will tell you the real threat is that we stop attracting immigrants.

BOOMING POST

yup

I was around Union Square area briefly today -- first time back in the city in some months -- and it certainly did not feel dead. Maybe slightly less bustling than before but even that is pretty bustling by the standards of anywhere else.

Did not feel like I had missed Manhattan atmosphere, but had a couple slices of Joe's pizza and certainly did miss that.

ffs

What a perfectly normal, functional city we have here. https://t.co/CpHJvfJY1X pic.twitter.com/PbQS2e8Gq9

— Chris 😷'Leary (@ohhleary) April 20, 2021

I don't get it, why would undercover cops be getting rid of OpenStreets barriers? They don't seem like the most likely suspect at all to me?

seems v plausible to me - cops love cars, love driving, and are aligned politically with reactionary car drivers who view Open Streets, like bike lanes etc., as illegitimate namby-pamby uses of space which could instead be devoted to driving as fast as possible at all times. so if they have secret fake amazon vans and an attitude of total impunity to rules/oversight/procedure, why not use the vans to destroy the Open Streets?

idk, it makes as much sense as a non-cop with similar beliefs and a fake (or legitimate!) Amazon van doing the same thing.

Cops know they’re gonna get away with it whereas amazon employees would absolutely get sold out by the mothership if there was a hint of bad press. And now there is regardless if amazon is letting the NYPD clone their vehicles for surveillance purposes xp