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...
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
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
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…
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
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
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.
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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.
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.
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)
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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.
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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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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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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