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Postby elaine » Sat May 16, 2020 7:10 pm

Cops are mostly good I think. Very reasonable people in general especially in nyc in my experience. They make me nervous too but it’s ok.
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Postby elaine » Sat May 16, 2020 7:10 pm

I guess cops are kind of essential workers too aren’t they
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Postby The Priest » Sat May 16, 2020 7:11 pm

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Postby big zorb » Sat May 16, 2020 7:27 pm

so i says, yeah, all cops are great, but NYPD cops? the BEST!
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Postby Fr. Blanc » Sat May 16, 2020 7:37 pm

Franco’s in the bedroooom,
He said, “time to go now”
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Postby cool party » Sat May 16, 2020 9:01 pm

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.


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Postby cool party » Sat May 16, 2020 9:04 pm

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
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Postby Ekopestback » Sat May 16, 2020 10:01 pm

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.
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Postby Honk For Dracula » Sat May 16, 2020 10:05 pm

big zorb wrote:so i says, yeah, all cops are great, but NYPD cops? the BEST!


they're very smart
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Postby abs » Sat May 16, 2020 10:08 pm

gutenmorgan wrote:
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).


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Postby Zurich » Sat May 16, 2020 11:42 pm

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. :|
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Postby lockheed » Mon May 18, 2020 8:53 am

I am so happy about being back in bed stuy

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.
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Postby lockheed » Mon May 18, 2020 8:55 am

The bedford/nostrand G part of bed stuy used to be a mystery to me lol
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Postby gauchebag » Mon May 18, 2020 9:10 am

delgriffith wrote:
gauchebag wrote:more photos

i was in greenwood today

sorry i made 2 links

https://imgur.com/gallery/pR5P99Y

https://imgur.com/gallery/zRgQwjW

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)
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Postby gauchebag » Mon May 18, 2020 9:41 am

https://imgur.com/gallery/0vISOq3

sorry it's like 28 pictures

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!) Image

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).

Image - 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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Postby big zorb » Mon May 18, 2020 9:49 am

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Postby lockheed » Mon May 18, 2020 11:00 am

This is going to sound very dumb but

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.
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Postby lockheed » Mon May 18, 2020 11:01 am

also bike exploration guides
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Postby lockheed » Mon May 18, 2020 11:02 am

i'm pretty fucking done w/ solely expressing myself through consumerism and ready to do it thru action
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Postby super gas » Mon May 18, 2020 3:21 pm

great stuff, gauchebag
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Postby lockheed » Mon May 18, 2020 6:37 pm

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Postby Mr Spaceship » Mon May 18, 2020 10:57 pm

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
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Postby lockheed » Wed May 20, 2020 11:53 am

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.
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Postby cool party » Wed May 20, 2020 1:22 pm

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
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Postby cool party » Wed May 20, 2020 1:33 pm

also i have to apologize again to came to wreck because i am definitely noticing more people in bushwick without masks now
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Postby odilon redon » Wed May 20, 2020 2:11 pm

who is the first nyc boarder we’re going to shame off the board for not wearing a mask outside gonna be

hopefully me
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Postby odilon redon » Wed May 20, 2020 2:12 pm

just to clarify i do do my civic duty and wear a mask as much as possible i can only hope everyone is doing their best
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Postby cool party » Wed May 20, 2020 3:39 pm

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
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Postby lockheed » Wed May 20, 2020 3:54 pm

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!
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Postby manvstrees » Wed May 20, 2020 4:05 pm

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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