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Michael Friedrich

5 months

The YIMBY free-market agenda can’t solve the housing crisis. But there are solutions that provide the homes we need without ceding power to the profiteers who rigged the system. I wrote for @newrepublic .

The Case Against YIMBYism

Why encouraging more private development won’t solve the housing crisis

newrepublic.com

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

Please just properly tax the wealthy and make public transit free for everyone

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3 months

MTA prepared to pay $1M for consultant to study why riders skip fares

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 years

If we rely on the "mega-moguls" to create our public spaces, they will continue to build "charming" little SimCity vanity projects. For the love of god, simply tax these people and use the revenue for real parks.

A New $260 Million Park Floats on the Hudson. It’s a Charmer. (Published 2021)

Little Island, developed by Barry Diller, with an amphitheater and dramatic views, opens on Hudson River Park. Opponents battled it for years.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 years

It is a time-honored tradition for sober guys over age 35 to get really weird about working out

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

2 years

Contrary to prevailing wisdom, building more is not enough to solve the housing crisis. In fact, it can make matters worse without policies designed to help low-income people stay in affordable homes. I grappled with housing politics for @newrepublic .

More Building Won’t Make Housing Affordable

America’s housing crisis has reached unfathomable proportions. But new construction isn’t enough to solve it.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 years

Only in the context of our radically diminished expectations for existing civic infrastructure can vanity projects like Little Island can look like public goods. My essay for @thebafflermag .

Escape from Little Island | Michael Friedrich

It’s only in the context of our diminished expectations for civic infrastructure that vanity projects like Little Island can look like public gifts.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 years

As housing prices soar in many American cities, community land trusts form a model to keep housing permanently affordable for low-income people. For @nytopinion , I wrote a story about their promise.

Opinion | Affordable Housing Forever (Published 2021)

Nonprofits that purchase land, build homes on it and sell them below market rate are giving low-income buyers a chance.

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

@CrainsNewYork Please just properly tax the wealthy and make public transit free for everyone

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

2 years

For @TheAtlantic I wrote about Elvia Wilk's new book 'Death by Landscape,' which argues that giving more space to weird phenomena might help us pay better attention to the crises of our time.

The Way We Talk About Nature Is Getting Weirder

A new book argues that giving space to strange phenomena helps us pay better attention to the crises of our time.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

@jackwdenton there's no wrong time for that

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

@lionel_trolling lemon poppyseed muffins

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

5 months

Building public housing is the most direct way to increase the supply of low-cost apartments.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 years

I visited Little Island and wrote for @thebafflermag about what happens when a city gives up the ruse that it’s anything other than a playground for tourists, the “creative class,” and absentee real estate investors.

Escape from Little Island | Michael Friedrich

It’s only in the context of our diminished expectations for civic infrastructure that vanity projects like Little Island can look like public gifts.

thebaffler.com

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

2 years

For @newrepublic I wrote about SST Records, the American indie underground, and why we lack a meaningful counterculture today.

The Unraveling of SST Records

Jim Ruland’s book on the legendary punk label helps explain why we lack a meaningful counterculture today.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

2 years

Who is brave enough to commission a 7,000 word essay from me about how aging punk icon Henry Rollins is a major but uncredited precursor for the manosphere, Joe Rogan, and more broadly the idea that personal-responsibility politics are countercultural?

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

At one of my regular 12-step meetings, a group of guys meets at the same time in the room next door. Sometimes they get so loud that we have to politely ask them to keep it down so we can hear each other. Today I learned what they do together: look at photos of trains.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

10 months

For this week’s @NYTMag , I wrote about the landlords of TikTok and why they seem to relish playing the villain

The Landlords of Social Media Seem Happy to Play the Villain

Why are property owners on social media crowing about the least lovable parts of their job?

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

The best suicide prevention measure would be to dismantle the Vessel and turn it into a reef in the Atlantic

Gothamist

@Gothamist

4 months

Hudson Yards' Vessel to reopen later this year with new suicide prevention measures

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

@joshtpm Is that about what you figured?

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

5 months

NYC real estate interests are again pushing to raise rents in regulated apartments. History shows that such policies lead to harassment and evictions without creating new or better housing, writes @neildemause .

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

The 15-minute city has provoked a stunning range of reactions: a useful exercise in reform and branding by liberal mayors, an insane right-wing backlash, and a largely unrealized egalitarian vision. I wrote about it for @newrepublic .

The Strange Villainization of the Walkable City

The 15-minute city proposed to shorten commutes and increase convenience. Why has it proven so divisive?

newrepublic.com

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

2 years

For @creemmag , I wrote 5,000 words about how aging punk icon Henry Rollins is a major but uncredited precursor for the manosphere, Joe Rogan, and the lucrative idea that individualism is countercultural

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

5 months

Implementing rent control is the most direct way to limit prices and keep low-cost apartments affordable.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

2 years

My essay about the reactionary legacy of punk icon Henry Rollins is out in print @creemmag

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

Incredibly moving dispatch @thenation from Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

I support alternative modes of transit, but at the same time my greatest fear of danger in NYC is that I will be struck down and killed by an adult riding an electric scooter

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

Not sure how to articulate exactly what I mean, but this is the type of urbanism that I support

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

The 15-minute city proposed an egalitarian idea to bring people closer to their needs, reduce commutes, and make cities more sustainable. Why has that proven so difficult to accomplish—and so divisive? I wrote about it for @newrepublic .

The Strange Villainization of the Walkable City

The 15-minute city proposed to shorten commutes and increase convenience. Why has it proven so divisive?

newrepublic.com

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

"I am wary of a hysterical campus discourse...that draws attention away from the ongoing slaughter in the Gaza Strip and settler violence in the occupied West Bank. We should be focusing on the material reality of war." Important piece from @jbenmenachem .

I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’

Smears from the press and pro-Israel influencers are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

The true 15-minute city

snaily snail

@fru1tsodas

3 months

you want your city to be walkable and bikeable? what's next? suckable? fuckable?

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

Interesting new study on the “green gentrification cycle” in LA and Chicago. It finds that gentrification both precedes and follows the opening of new parks in LA, and precedes the opening of new parks in Chicago.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

You see, the part that's still very clever after all these years is that his hands are small

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

Corporate acquisitions of housing spell rent hikes, poor living conditions, and evictions for tenants as landlords seek to extract maximum profits for investors. Very simply, we should stop allowing these purchases.

Leilani Farha 🍉

@leilanifarha

5 months

Blackstone - private equity behemoth + aggressor - has just purchased 27,000 homes x the US in a single transaction. The 76 multi-family apartment communities, prev owned by AIR, wont be on the stock-exchange, which limits transparency of operations.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

I have invented the 14-minute city. Mr. Carlos Moreno, what’s your move?

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

I read Denis Johnson’s ‘Train Dreams’ this week and it’s so gorgeous, I loved it

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

"The replacement park is so bland I can hardly think of a way to describe it, even negatively. It’s just a void." Nice @dirtyverse essay by @KevinBuist on the anonymizing of an iconic park and its digital afterlife.

The Unreality of Love Park｜Dirt

Skating the past.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 years

I tried to get onto Little Island tonight but the timed tickets were sold out and they changed their open admission times due to what employees called “aggressive” crowds last night. “It’s supposed to be an oasis!” one employee said.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

I am at my favorite public park today enjoying the key lime restroom

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

Happy MILF Manor to those who celebrate

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

6 months

Pitch: a reality dating show where participants think they are being taken to the beach to meet attractive singles but instead they are taken to a ten-day silent meditation retreat where they meet themselves

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

6 months

I found a card for Mayor Eric Adams’s 2024 Interfaith Breakfast sitting on the taco truck at Union Pool. You can view and download the photos of the event, if you please. Password: faith.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

6 months

Pleased to announce my forthcoming work of autofiction, "Shopping at Ikea on an Empty Stomach"

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 years

@nytopinion This piece grew out of my work on cities building High Line-style parks. Often, organizers form community land trusts around those structures in an effort to protect affordable housing as developers and city governments engineer gentrification.

Perspective | How ‘landscape urbanism’ is making gentrification look like fun

The problems with the High Line and all its imitators.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 years

@nytopinion Prying land and buildings away from the city takes organizing, and community land trusts face powerful resistance. You can read about how organizers do the hard work in @robinsreport ’s feature @newrepublic .

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

5 months

Crunch gym is constantly answering the unasked question: What would an EDM version of Marc Cohn’s 1991 hit “Walking in Memphis” sound like?

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

"It's clear what the right to the city means: we the people decide how the places we live change over time." Great in-depth video on the problems of the "third place" framework and the lasting importance of claiming a popular "right to the city."

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@rad_planner

3 months

i really can't believe it, but its done - my video about why we should all move on from Third Place theory and focus on the Right to the City is up on youtube now:

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

Another beautiful day to make the perfect the enemy of the good

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

This week real estate and banking lobbying groups released a "housing affordability" letter that calls on Biden and lawmakers to preserve tax loopholes for the ultra-wealthy and reject a federal tenants' rights package

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

5 months

“Our guiding philosophy is that those who produce the riches of the city must have the right to live in it," says @IanBrossat , on why Paris devotes billions of dollars to public housing.

How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing

One quarter of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

The story today, as for many months, is Israel’s continuing massacre of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, the bombing, starvation, and mass graves. Campus protests are demanding that US elites stops funding and enabling these horrors, and the elites are mad about that.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

5 months

I am become moon destroyer of sun

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

@PippengerHarlo “No one believes that upzoning alone will solve the housing crisis”

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

The defining essay on the rank absurdity of the self-styled underground attempting to emerge into the mainstream

Dan Brooks

@DangerBrooks

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The Trouble With Music by Steve Albini

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

All I want is to look and dress and act and be built exactly like Patrick Swayze in Road House (1989)

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

Why would we do this instead of prioritizing a federal funding bill that supports cities to produce public housing directly at the lower end of the market? It seems unnecessarily convoluted to try to induce private-market supply through federal incentives.

Shane Phillips

@ShaneDPhillips

3 months

Who do people think about a federal funding bill that pays cities a flat amount for every home built? It seems this would naturally incentivize smaller, denser units, and a large enough payment would encourage cities to lower impact fees to spur more production.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

Crazy how Hudson Yards has bounced back. Man, I wonder if the $1.2 billion that the developer grifted through an investor visa program meant to benefit poor neighborhoods helped it survive through the lean years.

How Hudson Yards Went From Ghost Town to Office Success Story

The vacancy rate at Hudson Yards’ office towers is considerably lower than in the rest of Manhattan, though its luxury housing and retail offerings have been less successful.

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

5 months

Denying incarcerated people the ability to see the eclipse is one of those things that reminds you how needlessly punitive and dehumanizing the U.S. prison system is

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@HellGateNY

5 months

Like many New Yorkers, incarcerated people are eager to see the rare total eclipse on April 8. Instead, DOCCS has ordered a total lockdown for all state prisons before, during, and after the eclipse. @rebeccakmccray reports:

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

6 months

Death is the ultimate social media timer, but nobody likes to hear that

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

Should be understood as CUNY punishing its poorest students for protests over the university's backing of Israel's occupation and atrocities in Gaza. Sickening.

Luca Saeed

@cityascanvass

4 months

🚨City College announces it is closing its food pantry as a result of the solidarity encampment. In 2022, 40% of CUNY students reported having low or very low food security. Thats 110,000 students.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

If you don't love me at my tootinest, you don't deserve me at my rootinest

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

Authors suggest some directions for planners and policymakers: —implement policies to limit gentrification before not after building parks in underserved communities —pair parks with new affordable housing —build new parks in neighborhoods that are not rapidly gentrifying

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

6 months

@andrew__wetzel @peebgardt I read it over the summer and marked my mom’s house and other personal landmarks on the map in my copy. Love it, especially the depiction of the ice cream shop on Long Wharf.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

The recording of Keith Jarrett in Köln rips so hard

Keith Jarrett-The Köln Concert (Full Album)

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

10 months

It’s astonishing that landlords (sorry, “housing providers”!) are logging on to social media to boast about the most loathsome parts of their job, but in their bravado you sense a deeper desire

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

The threat from the real estate industry in this letter is pretty explicit: keep giving us tax breaks, deregulate land use, and drop proposed tenant protections or else we will not build that new housing supply you want

Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

This week real estate and banking lobbying groups released a "housing affordability" letter that calls on Biden and lawmakers to preserve tax loopholes for the ultra-wealthy and reject a federal tenants' rights package

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

Much credit to @rad_planner whose excellent video essay helped shape my thinking about the possibilities for the 15-minute city.

15-Minute Cities for Leftists

15-minute cities could be the solution to climate change and income inequality. Or they could just make everything worse. What we do know is that they probab...

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

6 months

@RaxKingIsDead I really appreciated the movie Sound of Metal for this reason. The whole conflict takes place within the context of the protagonist’s recovery but his sobriety is not the main arc.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

Can’t believe my punk rock hero (the guy from Aquabats) has gotten so old and is hanging out at Coachella

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

In this case, gentrification before new parks are built isn’t about the “announcement effect,” where prices rise due to news of planned green space. Rather, it indicates that city officials and developers may seek to build parks in already gentrifying communities.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

Trying to win even the most baseline tenant protections from lawmakers who are controlled by real estate turns out to be losing proposition. For one thing, we need a strong public housing sector that can compete with private profiteers and diminish their power.

Rebecca C. Lewis

@_rebeccaclewis

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On good cause eviction, one source tells me concessions include: - exemption for rents 200% of fair market rent - 30 yr exemption for new construction - owner-occupied buildings of 8 units or less, and those landlords with a 10 unit portfolio exempt - opt-in for municipalities

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

5 months

I started writing my first drafts out long hand and it has drastically changed my life for the better

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

5 months

The sun is moon now

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

Also interesting: the study finds gentrification is linked to small neighborhood parks, not larger regional parks like the LA River project or Chicago’s 606, which had a small sample size. (Other research has shown that regional parks do drive gentrification.)

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

Seems fine for now if cities want to let developers build taller uglier apartment buildings, but only provided that those cities also implement strong rent controls. Clearly rent controls are the only part of that proposition that ordinary people need to be fighting for.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

If campus protests are helping Trump, maybe Biden should stop doing the thing that students are protesting

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

5 months

Even the Buddha had to touch grass, from time to time

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

@Matt439miller @JessieSingerNYC right, so make the norm that public transit is free for commuters at the point of entry

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Michael Friedrich

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6 months

@iantwang @ArtReview_ this is excellent

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

“Integrity is an undervalued and under-considered quality in art these days; somehow it has come to seem childish to insist on ethics while navigating the marketplace. I can’t help but marvel at Albini’s certitude on this front.” — @amandapetrusich

The Beautiful Rawness of Steve Albini

The producer was uncompromising in his opposition to the commercialization of music. That might seem today like a Gen X relic—or it might seem kind of awesome.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

@chrisgherbert Hard to find these days. Got to visit Central Perk.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

Cool Donald Fagen song. Tasteful, evocative lyrics. Morph the Cat makes a shape-shifting survey of the post-9/11, pre-bust city. Wouldn't we all like to recapture that feeling? (Notice, however, that Morph does not bother to visit Bushwick.)

Morph the Cat

Provided to YouTube by RepriseMorph the Cat · Donald FagenMorph The Cat℗ 2006 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside o...

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

It’s cool that Heatherwick only designs things that nobody wants (Garden Bridge), that only billionaires want (Little Island), or that actively drive deaths of despair (the Vessel)

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

Watching Bill Burr bullying Bill Maher is a top-tier experience of wish fulfillment

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4 months

@CarterGunn Sometimes he takes a break for tai chi or scrapping or kissing

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Michael Friedrich

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3 months

There is a London-based socialist transit punk band called Hygiene that has a song about the 15-minute city conspiracy theory. They are very good.

15 Minute City

Provided to YouTube by IIP-DDS15 Minute City · Hygiene15 Minute City℗ Static Shock RecordsReleased on: 2023-12-15Producer: Jonah FalcoMusic Publisher: Copyr...

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

"The soldiers were taking pictures of themselves while pretending to be kind to show the world how well they were treating people, but in reality they were demolishing houses on people’s heads and trampling them with their bulldozer at dawn."

Jack Mirkinson

@jackmirkinson

4 months

Today in @thenation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it.

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Michael Friedrich

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5 months

Sign up for my course

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@DrTaraGoddard thank you, that's so great!

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Michael Friedrich

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4 months

I listened to "Prayer to God" just last night and thought about how impossible it is to measure up to that sound. Albini's recordings and ethics helped define for me what underground music could mean. As he would say, requiescat.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

@marcelemoran hell yeah, let's do frequency and reliability too

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@mark_oprea Rogan would never

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Michael Friedrich

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4 months

@jbenmenachem yes join us yes yes

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Michael Friedrich

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4 months

Puts me in mind of this excellent old Ian Svenonius essay @jacobin . "These devices, which never stop upgrading...present a world where it is only through Apple that we get our information, our culture, our relationships, our sense of self, our love."

All Power to the Pack Rats

In the sleek Apple future, our

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Tim Cook

@tim_cook

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Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.

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Michael Friedrich

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3 months

The 15-minute city has also penetrated the tinfoil hats of far-right actors, who equate it with “climate lockdowns” where we will be surveilled and forced to eat bugs.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

@DearSplenda True, your question made me think about that—how the 606 has pocket parks on ground level along the path. Actually not sure if the study accounted for those as part of the 606 system or as independent pocket parks.

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

@brianonhere what's the least simple solution that is also highly unlikely to fix the problem?

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

This is so dumb, man. Unreal.

Gothamist

@Gothamist

3 months

Gov. Hochul��s order to put congestion pricing on ice threatens $15 billion in funding for transit construction projects, raising the possibility NYC’s subways could fall into a state of disrepair and sending service back to the bad old days. Read more:

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

4 months

@jbenmenachem seltzer is definitely better when it’s not flat!

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@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

@fuelgrannie unreal, you really get these folks worked up lol

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Michael Friedrich

@mfriedrichnyc

3 months

A new book by Carlos Moreno, inventor of the 15-min city, outlines a moderate program for a more sustainable & less car-dependent future. It relies on limited policy changes—more bike paths, public transit, & green space—with big draws on private capital.

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