gentleman wrote:okay guys. im not saying i love cops but in terms of the history of the world, when there's less opportunity and things to do, they tend to increase police to keep things at bay.
wish it wasn't the case...just what happens.
"i don't like it, but i'll have to go along with it"
look when a nation in the global south starts doing self determination, they tend to increase cia coups to keep things at bay. i'm not saying i like it. i just live in the real world
The crossing guards still work everyday with schools closed. My issue is that they only work for the kids and never make an effort to help me cross. They just stand there when I jay walk too.
flying wrote:ssam moving and gabrielle hamilton considering closing prune is shocking me. i knew neighborhood restaurants would close, but i guess i didn't realize how thin the margins were for the big places
I think they are extremely low, but I also think Chang has better-margined options as he expands (including various retail things) and is using this as an opportunity to cull some of what he does that is less profitable. Gabrielle seems kind of personally bizarre/not a great person and strikes me as an unreliable narrator, from everything I've learned about her over the years (even if the first chapter of her memoir is absolutely magical and something we emailed to all of our wedding guests since we had a rehearsal dinner at her dad's place near our venue).
seeing some indignant tweets about nyc and people not social distancing
just wanna say, i'm at home and fucking chillin! don't @ me!
but really i hate how this thing has made me feel like a total buzzkill/narc on anyone having fun. i really don't hate you for trying to have fun, i'm just increasingly unhappy and hating you for acting like a dumbass and being silly/happy makes me feel just a smidge better.
and that sucks and i hate it, but that's all i've got to say.
One silver lining about getting quarantined at my old apt was falling back in love with my old neighborhood, so much that I signed a lease, albeit in a different part.
tomorrow i have big plans for the old croton aqueduct trail.
Awesome. And that's a great trail, enjoy!
If you're gonna be in that neck of the woods and on your bike, Ferncliff Cemetery is a couple miles from Irvington and while it's no Greenwood, there are some incredible people buried there. Malcolm X, Paul Robeson, James Baldwin to name a few. I've gone there before just to pay my respects. All the grave markers are simple/austere, definitely no monuments like at Greenwood.
hi del, thanks for the tip i only saw this now. i was in the sleepy hollow old dutch reformed church cemetery where Washington Irving and Andrew Carnegie were buried but didn't get up to their graves bc we got there at 4:23pm and it closes at 4:30 haha! but I found the old weir house from the aqueduct trail which i wasn't sure if i'd be able to see from the cemetery to the aqueduct trail. you can see it. i'm going to sort through my pictures at some point today. i was going to stop in Irvington to find a ventilator on the trail south of Main Street but we ended up skipping Irvington. (I was fortunate enough to drive up)
but it basically hits the most notable Old Croton Aqueduct landmarks that still exist. I skipped the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx as this was a long day anyway and JPR is part of New Croton system. Even though the dam is New too (the old dam is submerged in the reservoir above the new one!)
Everything is labeled, ventilators, weirs, Aqueduct bridges, and of course one of the crown jewels of the system at the source - the New Croton Dam. (imo THE jewel is the High Bridge)
i spent a lot of time researching and figuring out where these things were - i haven't been able to find a labeled map but supposedly 21 ventilators still exist as well as 3 Weir houses (I saw two on Saturday, the other has been moved off the trail to private property).
- 888 st nick ave, former vent (they used to be every mile on the way up, they only exist mostly in westchester now - 1 in yonkers is covered in graffiti.
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i guess for when the city reopens, but I want to get a lot more involved with my community and direct way more of my free time toward common concerns and preoccupations. Can we like have a thread within a thread just for resources for everything? Like people's favorite community gardens, grocers, farms that ordinarily need volunteers, radical book clubs, diy event spaces, etc etc. I know plenty of you are already involved with things and it would be super cool if like, rider's alliance is represented, arts/theater/performance, and stuff could more centralized or easily accessed and shared on here.
I really want to be more connected with people/projects/whatever around me who are doing valuable things and like as soon as I fucking can.
for the future, my Fair Fares application was finally accepted and I am now officially enrolled in the program. It took 3-4 weeks, but yeah I was approved while reporting & documenting my unemployment insurance income, which obviously did not disqualify me for the program. I can't quite remember how the program works, but they said they're gonna mail me my metrocard, which I guess I will use directly to purchase discounted fares? I dunno, I'm obviously not gonna buy a weekly or a monthly anytime soon, but when I do I definitely ain't paying full price or suffering through a fare hike.
Mr Spaceship wrote:everyone is still following the lockdown protocols, right?
I met a friend of mine in Prospect Park who said his roommate's bf comes and goes out the apartment. Unbelievable
most people i know are mostly observing the protocols but are starting to make exceptions for a limited number of people. i understand the urge to do this for people you're close with but i feel like the problem is that in any "limited number of people" group there is at least one person who is not careful/doesn't give a fuck.
i'm no scientist but what's happening in brazil doesn't seem to bode well for the hypothesis that heat/humidity will stem transmission of the virus
i wear one while being mad that it effectively prevents me from running which is the only thing that makes me not depressed 24/7 and yet others are not obeying The Law
there is a crowd outside do or dive every night that drink between a couple traffic/construction barriers mask off and i jokingly thought about calling 311 on them, but it would also be fun to call 311 on them. it was like up to 20 ppl the first night i moved in, on sunday. crazy how these kids don't get summons issued to them!
Ive got it to put on when the sidewalk isnt empty or when i go inside anywhere Its not on each second im outside No ones wrong to have it on at all times tho
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