Listen, fuck the Eagles, and fuck whoever thought this was a good idea.

But they also did it for the Chiefs, and basically it was a celebration for the NFL Conference Championship winners.

It's not veto power. The Council has overruled a member's preference before.

It's an understanding among the CM's that they don't know your district well enough so, they defer to your lead. This happens in any organization all the time. One silo might opine on something but ultimately defer on the silo that knows the issue most intimately.

>gives individual wackos too much power

Actually, our elections did that.

Member deference might compound the issue but the tradition exists because the city is very large and each member understands that they might not know what's best for a district across the city. Council districts aren't very large so each member should know their district intimately. And some do.

What might be a huge neighborhood issue might not even register on the city's priority list. That's exactly why having a chief neighborhood advocate in the council is so important.

KRJ just massively fucked up here. I don't quite get her thinking, and yes, it's also rippled into a broader city-wide problem.

Correct! It was right before Central Perk opened and the space was instead of bar with a pool table.

Which would also connect Joey and Phoebe when she pretended to be Ursula and break up with him. They kissed, and he realized it was Phoebe as he was walking away.

Not a huge thing but they always had a bit of a connection.

True. Every time I think of this fact, it just keeps tearing up my heart.

Because 11101 is they LIC zip code.

>breach of promise.

That's not a thing.

Yeah, but it was still kind of weird that people were practicing their routines for weeks. I'm not hating, just saying how weird it was.

Which honestly, is great.

nEw YoRk Is JuSt So LiBeRaTiNg!

Genuinely the weirdest phenomenon of the late-aughts.

We started banning this shit back when the only recreation available to most folks was books, rolling a wheel down a hill, and if you had some money maybe the one play your town had.

Casinos and other gambling halls were the form of entertainment but they also sapped your money since they were addicting.

Nowadays, we have other options that should hopefully distract you just enough to prevent you from spending your rent payment on dice.

Then again, we have things like Candy Crush and EA games sapping our dollars in much of the same way that slots and pinball used to do 100 years ago.

Suozzi probably didn’t run much oppo research. He was an incumbent, with amazing name recognition, in a district that favored him, in a period of time that favored Democrats.

This time more research was done and it was being sent out in press releases since August m.

Also, it’s not the DNC that focuses on Congressional races. It’s the DCCC (they had a detailed memo on him in August). And “NY DNC” doesn’t make sense.

You couldn’t be more off base. His opponent was raising flags but no one cared. The DCCC, which runs Congressional campaigns (not the NY Dems) had put out a press release in August.

This was all being talked about but you didn’t see a single article about it because the journalists dropped the ball.

This isn’t Staten Island. It’s Long Island and a part of Queens.

The Democrat was Robert Zimmerman. Not sure if Santos had a Republican primary opponent.

Yeah. It was a well known (at least locally) that this was the first race of an open Congressional seat where both candidates were openly gay.

Eric Adams looks on anxiously.

Better than shoeboxes of DNA material...

Yup! Which is why there are barely any professional athletes from NYC. Certainly not in baseball, football, or soccer; we just don’t have the space.

You’ll get basketball pros because every school at least has a BS gym and some have nice ones.

Which is what folks meant when they’d say “NYC is dead/dying.” The city was famous for certain things, late night eats being one of them.

It’s not the same group of adults. It’s hundreds of different groups all vying for very limited space.

Adults have a right to public park space, too. And most of those adult leagues pay permit fees which (partially) cover maintenance.

Now, invading a children’s playground to play a sport you can play literally anywhere is stupid.

We desperately need more park space. I play intramural sports like softball and soccer but I also love my pick up games. Except they have become harder and harder to find as everything is a pay-to-play set up.

What’s worse are the adults who don’t even put together a league and charge $10 because they hold the permit. Like dude, the permit costs $10 total and you gave 20 guys playing. You’re not providing anything we wouldn’t have without you.

I’m not a fan of this but he (1) didn’t get any committee and (2) he’s gotten pretty shafted in redistricting. He’s making a basic calculation that caucusing as a Democrat isn’t helping him at all.

Either he stays a Dem and runs against Brennan in the primary, or runs as a Rep and maybe stands a chance.

He’s a sitting Council Member; he’ll still have discretionary funds.