is New York City dead?

I love any business that uses the ‘in’ —> ‘inn’ construction

i like the double pun of the classic "dew drop inn" but the word "dig" isn't something i want adjacent to my office drone lunch bowl

It’s great but it’s rebranded. It’s now just Dig. Somebody agreed with you.

if they agreed with me it would just be "inn"

top union square lunch slop stop is rainbow falafel though it is instant heartburn agony

I was once staying in a fancy hotel in NYC on someone else's time and I got Halal Guys and ate it in my expensive hotel room and felt a frisson

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dig inn/dig is definitely adequate lunch fare, beats chipotle or five guys or whatever. feels ok to be eating a meat and couple of veggies. probably oversalted but otherwise good enough. amazing what you can accomplish in business by just taking "picadilly cafeteria" and making it all upscale and designy.

The thing is, it's office lunches/eating at your desk that's soul sucking. These bowl places try to improve the situation by bringing a bit of dignity and serving something resembling real food. They can't overcome the situation, but it's not their fault.

fair point!

would love a union square picadilly

the great innovation is the online ordering bit. sweetgreen is so much sweeter when you just walk in grab your shit and leave. truly do not understand waiting on line at these places

I agree eating at your desk makes it very difficult to really savor a meal. Also, midtown around Bryant Park is pretty good, but if you get too close to Central Park, it becomes kind of a dead zone. I thought I'd tried Cava but I realized I was confusing it with Naya, which is a similar concept.

is maoz still going?

Last I knew, there was maybe one left, over by Port Authority.

Watching Serge Gainsbourg made me have a Coconuts flashback.

is maoz still going?

No, maoz is gone. Also, it was gross.

I think the food court at the Roosevelt Feild Mall in Long Island might still have a Maoz, but i haven't been there in years.

Also there's a dig inn down the street from me and you can smell the rancid oil half a block away.

dig inn is too oily, i agree.

sweetgreen is good if you want to spend your whole paycheck on lunch. i no longer live that life though i am a suburban guy but there was a time.

I never actually tried sweetgreen, I was so disappointed to find their "sabzi" isn't actually sabzi khordan that i walked out in disgust, never to return.

I can't imagine that Maoz's concept of "build your own falafel from a salad bar" would translate well to the age of Covid.

was out in Manhattan on a Saturday night in well over a year. such a wild vibe out there atm! it's a trip

same here, it was really something

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so there is a curfew at Washington Square now and the fucking riot geared nypd just go in and start beating people after 10:00? sounds cool

Also Union Square and Tompkins Square Park.

it's fucked

police only do this when they are VERY stressed and underfunded! please don't post videos of them doing it :(

“The park has turned into a nightmare for those of us with kids,” said local resident Maria Rose. “There's constant drugs, constant nudity. There's sexual acts here all the time. The trash in the mornings has become really obscene and it's really not a place for kids anymore, let alone adults.”

Since when??? I thought all the fun stuff stopped decades ago tbh

Lol @ "really not a place for kids anymore"

The drugs, nudity, sexual acts, trash and obscenity getting to be a little to much for even the youngest of kids

Guessing obscene trash = used condoms but she could also be referring to drug-related waste i suppose

local residents are just cops who don’t get paid for it

It’s about to be summer is a city where people live in overpriced closets and bars are open till 4:00 but you can’t sit in a park after 10:00? Mayor’s office is deferring to the NYPD on this matter. How the fuck can the police decide on public park curfew with no input from elected officials. Some bullshit

I don't think I've been to Washington Square Park on a Friday or Saturday night since maybe high school, but Bloomberg had a clear vendetta against that site in particular and there was a protracted effort to restrict access to the park, especially to skateboarders and people hanging around the fountain.

I had thought this effort was more or less successful in killing off the park once and for all. Guess not.

Regardless, the idea that it's supposed to be a kid friendly neighborhood park is hilarious.

At the center of a nightlife destination popular with New Yorkers who don't live in the immediate area, suburbanites and tourists, NYU etc. Kids coming in from Long Island and New Jersey to buy their bongs.

Granted there are some ridiculous luxury buildings on the perimiter of the park, like One Fifth Avenue (the "Levandusky" co-op), but still.

i'm gonna be a single-issue acab voter in the mayoral primary i am sick of this nonsense

That plus charter school support is why not to rank Adams or Yang anywhere on the ballot. And I'm not too happy about K Garcia either.

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Can't tell if the guy is clowining.

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I've seen a dozen warnings that the ballot is confusing and people are going to get it wrong...but I'm looking at my absentee ballot and it seems pretty straightforward?

How is everyone else finding it?

it was fine for me and i feel like the "ITS SO HARD"-ness is a conversation that is had/handwrung every election regardless of voting style? like, most people are stupid, don't forget...

it's not difficult but it is tedious