Rebecca Baird-Remba @thecitywanderer Twitter profile

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Rebecca Baird-Remba

@thecitywanderer

2 years

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i love how people are asking if this is real. yes! i was writing a lease story in google docs and this popped up in the first sentence.

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2 years

Now that I live off the F I am just constantly seeing Bill de Blasio

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3 years

the city gets pushed to crush load energy usage every summer, we freak out about rolling blackouts, and instead of fixing whatever underlying problems the grid and Con Ed have, the mayor asks millions of outer borough tenants to turn off their ACs on a 95 degree day...

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3 years

just got an email from an affordable housing lottery in greenpoint informing me i make too little for the available units, lmao

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2 years

@SoBendito landed gentry

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Watching this cargo ship pass under the Verrazzano was very fun

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

New Jersey guy who works in construction built a sonic cannon because he was bored during quarantine

New York Post

@nypost

4 years

Mystery of booming sound in New Jersey apparently solved

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Oh my god

Exclusive | 'The Wire' actor Michael K. Williams found dead in NYC apartment

“The Wire’’ actor Michael K. Williams was found dead of a suspected drug overdose in his Brooklyn penthouse Monday afternoon, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

nypost.com

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Rebecca Baird-Remba

@thecitywanderer

4 years

i keep looking at the random exposed section of brick wall in this crown heights apartment listing photo and feeling increasingly baffled

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

Hey remember when the Times and a bunch of other papers claimed that density was to blame for the high rates of COVID cases in New York City? I still think about that from time to time now that suburban and even rural areas are being overwhelmed

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4 years

A thing I am consistently struck by is that a lot of people, maybe even most people, outside of New York City seem to have no idea what it has been like here for the past two months

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Help I actually love this tiny midtown dunkin

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@ajjordanphoto

3 years

this is the world’s saddest dunkin

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1 year

Got jumped by a group of teens in southwest Philly tonight and they took my bike which unfortunately had everything in my bike bag, including my phone and wallet. Some nice people gave me $100 and dinner and helped me clean my scrapes. I dealt with Philly PD…

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3 years

truly begging developers to stop doing ugly stuff like this when they gut renovate a unit

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3 years

Please step away from the digital staging software

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1 year

We don’t talk enough about this 1960s tribeca gem

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

I think a lot about the fact that five day a week office work had been unnecessary for the past 20 years and didn’t work for most people, but a small number of corporate leaders insisted shoving everyone in the same box designed by married men with stay at home wives in the 1950s

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1 year

NYC is obviously not in a doom loop and it’s annoying that everyone keeps saying that

Office Occupancy Breaks 50% — Not So Fast for NYC ‘Doom Loop’

THE CITY’s June economic recovery analysis shows a jump in office usage, and a small boost on job and unemployment figures.

www.thecity.nyc

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Rebecca Baird-Remba

@thecitywanderer

6 months

This is clearly not true if you’re familiar with Westfield’s business or the leasing issues at the Oculus and Fulton Center. Retail operators blaming theft for bad planning/leasing/management is getting old

Gothamist

@Gothamist

6 months

Westfield, the real estate company managing retail at Manhattan’s busy Fulton Transit Center says rampant crime and mayhem has gone unchecked for years, forcing it to break its lease with the MTA. Read more:

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2 years

Would love to hear more about this manhunt that apparently involves the NYPD circling Greenwood 800 times

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1 year

Graffitied train at Church

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

TIL New York City has a true mcmansion neighborhood and it's a small wealthy subsection of College Point, Queens called Malba.

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3 years

Hellloooo from the Flatiron Building

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2 years

Love that it now takes two tries to reply to a damn tweet

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@thecitywanderer

3 months

An incredible comms shit show from the governors office today

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

TIL there's a very cool 1960s synagogue in Tribeca

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

'it would cost us $3 million a year to give our employees email addresses' is one of the funniest things i've ever read

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

Honestly exhausted by how badly reported this is

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2 years

@kristoncapps Gonna see how gdocs handles that one next

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2 years

Writing about the reno of this deeply 1970s lobby

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Spotted

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

@JakeAnbinder @freedaaron @JHWeissmann we don’t talk enough about Mickey Rooney’s potato fantasy

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@thecitywanderer

1 year

Why are there so many men on twitter who refuse to learn what art deco is

Axial Wanderer

@EricWollberg

1 year

Sir Jamie Dimon is building a new art deco HQ for JPM at an insane clip in midtown manhattan. It will be the largest all electric tower in the world. It is a monument to techno-capital.

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3 years

Absolute unit of cat

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2 years

Bernese mountain dog on the G

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4 years

NYC cut 40,000 youth jobs when they were needed most

N.Y.C. Cut 40,000 Youth Jobs When They Were Needed Most (Published 2020)

“I wasn’t doing this for video games,” said one participant in the Summer Youth Employment Program, whose budget was slashed because of the pandemic. For those who didn’t get a slot, it was yet...

www.nytimes.com

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5 months

Spotted a commercial trash hauling truck in Park Slope with the 10 commandments, a Star of David and ‘Proud to be Italian American.’

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

i saw this studio listing for an occupied apartment and now you all need to see it

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2 years

@Eric_Erins She could just recaulk it lol

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Sometimes it makes me a little sad that so many healthy people still have COVID anxiety about the subway, despite the fact that it is better ventilated than a lot of the indoor spaces in NYC. kind of a referendum on the questionable reporting of the early pandemic.

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Rebecca Baird-Remba

@thecitywanderer

2 years

This is insane

jack healy

@jackhealyNYT

2 years

What happens to a fast-growing desert community when the water gets cut off? People catch rainwater. Stop washing at home. One guy I met is even pooping into plastic bags! (Alas, his girlfriend was adamant they not be a part of our story)

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

lol

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@thecitywanderer

1 year

No one wants to admit that ‘allowing the BQE to fall into the sea’ is the secret option we are choosing by not dealing with the cantilever

New York’s BQE plan is flawed, would widen highway, former DOT commissioner says

Hank Gutman, the city's former transportation commissioner, said the city's current plan to fix the BQE would lead to an even larger highway.

gothamist.com

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

Everyone gets mad at the people going fast on bikes, but I feel like it’s important to note that if our bike infra sucked less and was wider, we wouldn’t have constant conflicts between fast cyclists, slow cyclists, emobilty users, maintenance vehicles, etc

Hayden

@the_transit_guy

2 years

As of late, I’ve been really conflicted with how Lycra wearing cyclists treat the West Side Highway Bike Trail like they’re training for the Tour de France. Any good examples of cyclists of varying experience utilizing the same infrastructure?

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

I get that Biden had to pick a message but ‘it will all be fine if you’re vaccinated’ is not really the vibe we’re having in New York right now

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Lmao apparently my dumb tweet is on NY1

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

This looks scary, both because you’re right next to traffic and because I can’t imagine dealing with oncoming cyclists in a lane this narrow

@[email protected]

@josephfrazier_

3 years

Here's a sneak peek at what riding over the Brooklyn Bridge bike lane looks like:

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Rebecca Baird-Remba

@thecitywanderer

3 years

not sure i will ever understand the appeal of buying a $2K exercise bike that you can only use inside when you could buy a nice real bike and a trainer for that cost

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

because it needs a plumbing hookup and a gas hookup, and you already have both in the kitchen. plus its a small studio with what looks like one closet, so not many other places to put it

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@CaitCamelia

3 years

NYC apartments are insane. Why is the washing machine next to the oven???

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@thecitywanderer

1 year

As park slope as it gets

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

This man is simply announcing that he has never spent time in the middle and working class parts of the outer boroughs and upper manhattan

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@PHuenermund

3 years

You never see old people in the streets of NYC. In Copenhagen you do. It's a real city, not just some romcom dream for 20-somethings.

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2 years

This video of the ceiling falling down at the Prince St R/W subway station is absolutely sending me

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@thecitywanderer

1 year

Have started calling south of Prospect Park ‘the country’

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Amazing!!

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

The bus takes the same amount of time and costs $15

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@martinvars

2 years

I just took an Uber from Manhattan to Philadelphia. In one hour and 45 minutes different governments charged me $140 in various tolls and taxes.

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

Kept trying to think of why I knew Eric Goode's name and it's because he owns B Bar, Jane Hotel, Waverly Inn, and a bunch of other NYC hospitality businesses. This is real bad

Their Wealthy Boss Was The Director Of “Tiger King.” They Got Laid Off And Can’t Pay Their Bills.

Tiger King codirector and executive producer Eric Goode owns a suite of trendy Manhattan hotels and restaurants. Some of the workers he laid off amid the coronavirus outbreak are pleading for help.

www.buzzfeednews.com

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Rebecca Baird-Remba

@thecitywanderer

3 years

What a specific forecast

NBC News

@NBCNews

3 years

New York City could see between 2 inches and 20 inches of snow this weekend.

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

Every time Cuomo complains about quality of life issues in the five boros I think about how he cut funding for affordable housing and homeless voucher programs nearly a decade ago and helped put us on this particular path

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

@zillowgonewild why does this look like the setting for a Swedish horror film

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

When you simply cannot be trusted

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Apparently half of NYC is selling their pandemic impulse purchase stationary bikes

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

The exterminator informed me that his company is hiring “if I want a career other than journalism.”

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Rebecca Baird-Remba

@thecitywanderer

1 year

Hard agree. Embrace your home’s quirks, your old weird furniture, your older kitchen!

Alexandra Lange

@LangeAlexandra

1 year

Free your soul (pick a color)

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Rebecca Baird-Remba

@thecitywanderer

3 years

this is tangential but i am unsettled by this photo of cuomo and bill clinton

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

So I spoke to an architect yesterday who had worked w/ Andy Byford designing London Tube stations and then came over here to help with redesigning the subway. He pointed out you can get into TfL w/o touching anything but swiping into NYC subway involves touching like 5 surfaces

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Rebecca Baird-Remba

@thecitywanderer

4 years

Pass this under construction apartment building every day and I hate the window ACs more as time goes on

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

oh boy now she's pissed off the carpenters

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

When I start to feel depressed about NYC real estate, I look at SF and think, well it could be much worse

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

my only work life separation is closing tabs at the end of the day

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@thecitywanderer

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“Estimates for how much it would cost in total to renovate it are around $50 million, including $14 million to deal with crumbling facades and $4 million to comply with building and fire code violations.” Meanwhile the celebs have raised.. $16K

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

Really half-assed this backsplash

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

Just discovered a cute little dead end block in Prospect Park South - Albemarle Terrace

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

why is he so intent on this 1970s-style rhetoric of making people afraid of the subway? it's like admitting to the fact that he's not doing a good job on crime, which makes no sense.

Erin Durkin

@erinmdurkin

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. @ericadamsfornyc says the next phase of transit safety plan will include a campaign on “how to be a safe passenger,” including telling women riders not to stand alone in isolated areas.

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

@DanielKayHertz this is google docs. been typing the word "landlord" for years in gdocs but i guess they are rolling out a whole new raft of writing suggestions using purple underlines + pop-ups bc this just happened to me today for the first time.

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

thinking about the man i went on a date with the other day who worked at a real estate-related company and informed me my job "sounded boring"

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

lol ok

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Lol I’m waking up at 5 am to bike 100 miles tomorrow

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

tired of people who don't know much about cycling in new york city acting like women don't bike, whether it's commuting, road cycling, racing. many of them become cycling advocates too.

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Just saw a maskless cop at the late night halal place with a patch on his gun holster that read ‘2020 riots hats and bats’

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Truly amazed by the number of people who don’t understand that you can’t snap your fingers and relocate hundreds of thousands of tenants who may be living in basements, garden units and first floor apts. I also struggle to imagine the city subsidizing relocation at that scale

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

Losing my mind over this bike I discovered on eBay

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

As usual, tons of national politics writers in D.C. are weighing in on our local races here in New York City but lack basic knowledge of local politics and neighborhoods

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

nyc twitter somehow turns everyone into pro- or anti-bike people

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@thecitywanderer

1 year

So now I just have to buy a bus ticket home and then cancel my cards, i guess

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

My pitch to developers is: try cooking a few meals in that kitchen and then washing the dishes by hand for a few days and see how you like it. You will quickly figure out if that weird coat closet should be converted to regular counter space.

Bobby Fijan

@bobbyfijan

2 years

This 8' straight apartment kitchen is big enough for any renter. Need more space, just add a floating island.

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Rebecca Baird-Remba

@thecitywanderer

1 year

So many guys commenting on congestion pricing who don’t live here, don’t seem to understand how people commute here or what the costs involved are for respective modes of transit right now.

tylercowen

@tylercowen

1 year

When does urban congestion pricing *not* make sense?

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Uhhhhh

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

He’s announcing a rezoning for 6000 units near the new Metro North stations in the East Bronx

Mayor Eric Adams

@NYCMayor

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New York City is our home, and it needs more affordable housing. It’s time to #GetStuffBuilt .

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

if you're ever tempted to put a sliding barn door in a 550 square foot studio... you could simply not

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

A man waiting for the bus on the sidewalk in the Bronx fell into a random sinkhole full of RATS that opened up underneath him

‘He couldn’t move, and the rats were crawling all over him,’ says brother of man who plunged into...

A Bronx man who plummeted 15 feet after a sinkhole opened underneath him had to deal with a swarm of scurrying rats as he waited for help, his brother told the Daily News. Leonard Shoulders, 33, wa…

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

it is rather funny to me that many people on here seem to have gotten into 'urbanism' and 'development' during the pandemic and fancy themselves experts (is it trendy now?), while i have been writing about development in new york city since it was deeply uncool 8 years ago

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@thecitywanderer

1 year

Thankfully I have my iPad so if you’re trying to contact me, do it here/email/etc. I don’t have cell service on this device so I wont see non iMessage texts till i replace my phone

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

Decided to sign up for my first group ride with a cycling club and I am the only person under 50

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

bring coffee places to more stations!

Morgan McKay

@morganfmckay

2 years

As if the Q train wasn’t already the best - a coffee shop opened at the Q - 86 St Station

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@thecitywanderer

2 years

@freecondo blocked and reported

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@thecitywanderer

3 years

honestly that's fine, i'm not paying $2236 for a studio anyway

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

Hate to tweet this again but it is frankly insane that the governor of New York and the mayor of the country's biggest city seemingly cannot communicate on the BASICS of their plan to re-shutdown several neighborhoods

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@thecitywanderer

4 years

Honestly they should extend it! Even if heat lamps/outdoor enclosures cost a couple grand, for a lot of restaurants this will mean the difference between staying in business and not

New York City Considers Extending Outdoor Dining Into Colder Months

Restaurants are mixed on whether they would participate in outdoor dining in the colder months if New York City still isn’t allowing indoor dining.

www.wsj.com

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