is New York City dead?

I am 49 w/o any morbidities and just scheduled a booster.

"Governor Hochul encourages New Yorkers who are 18 and older and feel at risk to get their COVID-19 booster dose. This includes individuals who received their Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna initial vaccine series at least six months ago or the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at least two months ago."

I parse this as you are eligible if you feel at risk. Who doesn't feel at risk at this point? Anyone going into work in person, eating at a restaurant, shopping in a store could legitimately feel at risk.

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The boosters are widely available now. Getting a booster is not preventing someone else from getting it. Get it.

I have to assume being Cuomo's Lt Gov was designed to be a permanent position and never a stepping stone to governor. NY doesn't have term limits. She doesn't seem like she was meant for this. Her messaging style is not great.

yeah the booster messaging has been unclear, the nys gov website says you need to have an underlying condition (tho i know most pharmacies don’t really ask) and there’s no indication that rules in the city are any different

It's too late for everything to return to "normal". First of all, where are the cheap and plentiful and fast testing sites and test kits? Get that first.

But secondly, people don't want to come back. I'm back in the office 2 days a week and it's a ghost town. Meanwhile I have co-workers who are pushing to get everybody back in the office 5 days a week because they think that's best. While any number of people, especially people with longer commutes, are not feeling that.

Hochul getting dragggggged for that tweet

they should just extend central park though most of midtown anyways

Make sure you get your $100 incentive by getting yr booster in a gov facility like Shea stadium.

i will take my incentive in one (1) ticket to watch the new york knicks play basketball

got my booster at duane reade. was a nightmare. wife got hers at Elmhurst aka covid ground zero and got a crazy goodie bag of swag.

Maybe I should head over there.

She didn't get 100 bucks. Just a t-shirt and bracelet and booklets and stickers and stuff.

https://gothamist.com/news/photos-nyc-says-goodbye-east-river-park/

RIP the East River Park Amphitheater, original site of Shakespeare in the Park; scene of the climactic hip-hop concert in WILD STYLE; & site of countless graduation ceremonies & music/dance/theater performances, restored after 9/11 but razed by the city... https://t.co/LKNVraSLRY pic.twitter.com/b7I1tWDe4H

— Mike Rubin (@rubinbooty) December 28, 2021

This some sad shit

I spent so much time over there. Took a lot of pictures too because of rapidly accelerating Old Weird New York attrition awareness.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/nyregion/eric-adams-mother-photo.html

Anyone have a photo like this ( in a brandy snifter?)

https://i.imgur.com/c7ewC1g.png

Coming to NYC this December, Airbnb for comfort, got to start saving (but it's always nice when you're looking forward to something). Doing XMAS, will probably come back before new year though. Hyped. Pandemic levels withstanding of course.

Goodbye to the R32 subway car, 1964-2022.

The first stainless steel NYC subway car, and the last to have a front window for passengers.

Rest in scrap.

Oh no is that the car that runs on the A and C trains??? Are they going away? That's too bad, I love riding in the front car and looking out the window.

You're probably thinking of the R46 trains (orange seats). The R32s have grey seats.

The A/C line now I think is mainly R179 trains, which have blue seats.

no I think you're right, the R32s were used on the A,C,J, and Z lines

Yeah on second thought you may be right, but when they last ran on the A/C lines I'm not clear on

wikipedia says: "With the R179 delivery completed, the R32s were gradually phased out until the last train made its final trip on the C on March 26, 2020."

it's a bummer, but a long time coming - they were originally going to replace them years ago! I like to think I got the most enjoyment out of them that I could while they were around.

Ah well that explains it, it was early covid and I wasn't in the city at the time. Pour one out for the R32 front window. I lived on the C from 2000-2003 and on the AC from 2011-present, so I got a good bit of use out of them.

yep I was definitely dreading the day, but at least was able to make peace with the pending loss. (though tbh, it's been awhile since I've ridden one now since I'm now firmly lodged up in the bronx.)

ffs

As big-box retailers reduce their brick-and-mortar presence in New York City, an emerging class of tenants is proving to be just what the doctor ordered.https://t.co/hpvvMqTKTg

— The Real Deal (@trdny) January 10, 2022

can't wait til these close after the pandemic and become weed dispensaries

and / or walk-in gambling parlors like they have in the uk

They are all totally going to become dispensaries

“After the pandemic”

15 minute groceries delivery joints.

on a block near me THREE of these things opened side by side more or less simultaneously; they are all pretty much packed.

Well this is quite the proposalhttps://t.co/HMvZekXzzo pic.twitter.com/T1Ps2Od1YF

— Samantha Maldonado (@sssmaldo) January 14, 2022

lol that's so terrible

Real Estate: They're not making any more of i...

it's good but they should do more

amateur hour compared to

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJFHaW5X0AA4lLW?format=jpg&name=large

oh wow, now i wanna read up on that.

I mean I don't know if that's a "good" idea or not. It's certainly an out there idea, and it seems so grandiose and expensive that I can't imagine it ever actually gets done.

USA!

should be a quick and easy job, definitely not worth looking at how well we're using our existing land

Building new land in a tidal estuary is probably easier than dealing with that tbf

absorbing governor's island must be part of the government's "hammocks for all" initiative

I mean go for it I guess, it would be a good thing. I guess so much of new york seems just kind of underdeveloped and half empty when I walk around (not in manhattan)

oh but an extension of a single local train plus a couple new g train stops is not gonna cut it

i suppose the other argument for this is: you've got to do *something* to protect lower manhattan, so you may was well go for it.