is New York City dead?

So glad movie theaters are back ❤️ pic.twitter.com/N300NKmQmT

— Lebbertoxd (@InsaneLetterbox) May 29, 2021

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

it's fine. it required some research for some of the downballot position and i wasn't aware there was ranked voting for comptroller for instance but i was voting lander only in any case, so...

only thing that bummed me out is last night I read that the two running for judge in queens were a "pick any two" so I didn't research them and then when I got there it was "pick one"

For comptroller there was some thing where you were supposed to vote for Corey Johnson second for some reason.

the only confusing part for me was remembering to only pick one for the DA race, since that one isn't ranked-choice

we didn't have that in queens, but my city council race had 1000 candidates.

Because I voted absentee, I had time to look up the judges, and I'm glad I did. I specifically have a bone to pick with the Kings County Democratic Committee, as a member of it who got dragged through a 12-hour zoom meeting right before Christmas where the party leaders just straight up lied to everyone and obstructed the progress that was legally supposed to happen.

I was not exactly thrilled to vote for my incumbent council person but she's better than her absolutely insane rival.

couldn't quite bring myself to vote for paperboy prince

i ranked him fifth bcuz by that point i had forgotten what order i was supposed to be doing

.@ericadamsfornyc “I’m going to promise you in one year, one year, you’re going to see a different city.” Promises economic development, Bitcoin, self-driving cars, renewed businesses.

— Sally Goldenberg (@SallyGold) June 23, 2021

So are all of the candidates just crackpots

greatest city in the world iirc

Bitcoin? Uhhh

hoping against hope for some unlikely combination of mail-in ballots and ranked-choice developments to still deliver us Mayor Wiley or, as a fallback, Mayor Garcia. Yang being out of the running is certainly a relief. but Adams is essentially a Republican and really does not bode well.

nice to see though that some hedge fund manager completely wasted their money sponsoring the approximately 400 million glossy Ray McGuire mailers dumped on the city's mailboxes over the past month

The police unions hate Adams though don’t they?

they hate everybody! anyway it's inconceivable adams would in any way restrain the police anymore than BdB has. his campaign has been like 95% "i was a cop and i carry a gun and crime is out of control."

hoping against hope for some unlikely combination of mail-in ballots and ranked-choice developments to still deliver us Mayor Wiley or, as a fallback, Mayor Garcia. Yang being out of the running is certainly a relief. but Adams is essentially a Republican and really does not bode well.

Wiley's got my (absentee) vote!

I voted early and it was really the most pleasurable voting experience ever. I got to share the process with my kids and was easy as pie to mail in.

I don't get this part at all -

The first round of ranked-choice voting analysis will eliminate the bottom candidate, recount votes accordingly, then continue until there is a winner with 50% of the vote. The process will kick off next Tuesday, June 29, and will include only in-person votes.

Absentee ballots will be counted a week later, on July 6, and the process could recur the week of July 12 if uncounted or controversial ballots remain.

How can they do the ranked-choice stuff before they count the absentee ballots? Won't the absentee ballots change the order of the rankings?

not enough outstanding ballots to alter the bottom quartile

I'm relieved to see Cornegy (probably?) out of range for Brooklyn Borough Pres, I must say.

I guess I live in a Jimmy Van Bramer bubble, had not idea he'd be so decimated for Queens Borough Pres.

A certain amount of work went into this:

https://www.vulture.com/2021/06/nyc-mayors-race-who-every-nyc-tv-character-would-vote-for.html

immediate quibble: tom from succession is definitely a registered republican