That's the key point that makes me nervous. I can't exactly take this off like a costume at the end of the day. If one of these assholes clocks me...

Discouraging to see this sort of thing spreading to the city. If it keeps up I'll start to get nervous.

Fair point. I'm way too paranoid because of the direction that the Times has been steering things lately, and of course there was the past two years.

But hey yeah there's a bunch of stuff going around right now.

It's bizarre to witness nyc's transformation from "diverse global migrant city of the world" to "first in time first in right"

The Times really has pretty much abdicated its role as a news organization and is now a party organ for fomenting elite hysterias.

Pack it in boys. Cities are too risky. Tear em down. Everyone to the burbs. Just order delivery.

> Yusef Salaam (of the 'Exonerated 5') will be one of the candidates in that race.

Damn that's quite a move for someone who's gone through that.

That was just a pretext, a requirement that couldn't practicably be fulfilled. She doesn't want anyone who doesn't already live there moving to the neighborhood. It's classic nativism dressed up in new language.

Didn't work for Elizabeth Holmes.

Very well I will open the door and let the rats wash over me.

Come and get it boys

> The diatomaceous earth does wonders to help kill the next ones that get through.

I've done that too! Put it behind all the electrical panels and everything! And the damn things keep coming because the neighbors are just really nasty! Won't even put their garbage in the cans and keep trashing the backyard lol

My cat is a fantastic mouser but will do nothing in the face of roaches. She sees them but just isn't interested.

I have to kill the roaches. And then there's inevitable placement of a bunch of bait in the nooks and crannies that follows, the purging of corrugated cardboard and placement of all food into plastic tupperware, the cleaning out of every nook in the cabinets, the sealing and re-sealing of trim cracks and plumbing holes...and inevitably another roach eventually shows up because the disgusting downstairs neighbors won't stop piling up literal garbage in their apartment.

If your neighbors don't give a shit about roaches well then you're just fucked.

Sorry just bitching.

> The one special owl in Central Park died

Barry? She was hit by a truck.

Was there another special owl that also got killed? Oh no...

Second this. I never have problems with mice or rats in my places. Friends who get cats have them clear up almost immediately. I know right away if mice are getting in because the little beast kills 'em, and I never find their droppings around.

If you get a cat that enjoys killing bugs as well then you've got it made.

I have so many good pics of the RBB infrastructure with new growth twisting it apart. There's also that awesome graffiti on the Richmond Hill platform you can only see from the air.

Wild turkeys in the hills too!

> You can walk along the old tracks and even find the old station platforms if you go far enough.

I have seent the Richmond Hill station platform with mah own two eyes, and it is glorious.

Modern reporting is a lot more vibes than facts. Takes an inordinate amount of effort to separate what the author is speculating/opining vs what he's reporting, which yes here is very little.

It would be more difficult but more intellectually honest to make the case that while mental illness and criminal behavior are positively correlated that's not sufficient to justify this policy choice. Dunno why the author is so strenuously avoiding doing that.

One would think that you could build a boutique practice around PI for bicycle accidents.

Maybe not that exclusively but doesn't seem that strange to me.

edit: This is the guy, right?

Things are pretty busy down there already. You'd need to tunnel quite deep, right? And I'm not sure that's as simple in Lower Manhattan as it was for SAS Phase 1 which was mostly solid rock. I know they're already worried about working in soft soil for SAS Phase 3/4. Lot of additional concerns about water intrusion, for one.

> Things are only worth what people are willing to pay for them.

This is just not true. Some of history's greatest artists were commercial failures in their lifetimes, often living very hard lives, only popular after their deaths.

Of course nobody wants to be a financial failure in their own life and an artistic success after they die. They want both financial and artistic success while they're still alive.

I don't think that everyone should be entitled to a good living just because they want to make art - after all, most of it is going to be crap and peoples' talents are often better utilized elsewhere - but I'm just saying that I don't think someone is a fool or a bad artist just because they're struggling to stay out of poverty. It's hard to judge that kind of thing.

I'm not an artist but I hate it when people trivialize their work or their lives like this.

I'm glad they're around. The city would be worse off without people trying to make art and it's a shame they're paid so little.

Pre-renovation Penn was superior in this regard. Plenty of cheap eats and quick stuff to go.

Agreed. It was just so off the wall that maybe it's a thing I haven't heard of.

Moynihan could be really nice but they keep trying to turn it into Oculus 2.0 where you're not allowed to sit on the floor, the wayfinding and track info is obscured by advertising, and the shops are all "up market."