forepeaksolutions.bsky.social
Public historian of New York Harbor
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I thought herding cats was hard; now they want to make decisions by consensus!?
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If this is a rabbit hole, I might live in Watership Down
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I can’t help wondering whether all this attention that we give the rich—even the negative attention—doesn’t contribute to the inequality problem. The president understands that all attention is power. What would happen if we stopped telling/consuming stories centering the rich?
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What about Howard Pyle?
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I’m not sure what aspect of these carts seems legally questionable to you. I am all for safe streets, but a lot of the laws governing street vendors are a mess that attacks immigrants, doesn’t reflect the reality on the streets, and sustains a black market for licenses @streetvendorproj.bsky.social
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As a former bus driver, let me tell you, once one bus gets slowed down by traffic or issues with riders, they start falling behind schedule and the number of people waiting to get on increases, which slows the bus more. Since I wasn’t MTA, I don’t know why they don’t make like a subway & skip stops
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Based on the gridlock of trailers at Malcolm X Promenade any warm day without a home game, a lot of them are privately owned and possibly call Corona home.
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On behalf of the entire maritime industry: FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD OR EVER HOPES TO BE NO
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William of Orange started the war on cars.
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I think I’ve ridden the J fewer than 10 times in many NYC years but I love it as a physical manifestation of NYC before there was a midtown, when downtown was the city.
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Bring back the free puppet library!
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Never talk about the rich or their stuff without talking about how they got that way and how it affected the rest of us.
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I think if there are improvements in performance they’re not detectable and given Hollywood’s track record with borrowed artifacts (e.g. the instrument borrowed from Martin Guitar destroyed by Django Unchained) Hollywood should not seek even temporary custody of original artifacts even to copy.
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Is it possible to have public housing and a school and a garden(/park) or is that putting us into super tall building heights? Because we need parks and schools and (and especially if we build it) affordable housing
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They just kicked a hornet’s nest of Boomer amateur genealogists
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Chiming in here on behalf Quakerism (Friends General Conference et al.) where we’re just watching everyone else compare the size of their golden calves. Anarchism as religion.
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The Old Ones come for all
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I vaguely recall Blockheads; what I want to know is whether there are any Blarney Stone (I hesitate to call them pubs) anymore. They were once so ubiquitous there was an off-brand Blarney Rock near City Hall—would love to know its story.
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I just imagine the phones are big silvery boom boxes and it’s the 1980s
Librarians in the know have suggested that cell phones, which bring the intimacy of private conversation into the public sphere, are the root cause or incivility or at least the initial breach toward it.
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Another opportunity to recommend Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos, also published that year, broader in scope and far more daring in form and therefore harder to force down the throats of high school students
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I’m waiting 24-48 hours before any celebrations, but it was quite breezy this morning, so maybe my blossoms are okay(?)
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I’m holding out hope that the winds will be strong enough to keep some of the frost off
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The completely insane MAGA I remain contented to on social media for just these insights has been saying for weeks that the economy was going tank this year no matter who was in charge
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This administration is like the “comedian” Gallagher, only instead of being stuck in the 60s and smashing fruit, they’re stuck in the 70s and smashing vital institutions and the economy
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Thrilled to see this. Also, context: Spokane is culturally surprisingly close to Canada, probably because there’s nothing but a lot of miles separating it from the border. The Spokane Kiwanis Club sings both nations’ anthems at the start of their meetings.
(Please don’t ask me how I know this)
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But it’s so good!
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My sister insists that eating rice and beans for my main meal almost every day is a big part of what keeps me single.
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What if the entire urban built environment had this level of artistry—call it the city beautiful movement (but more bottom-up and diverse this time—the elegance of desire paths…)
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Yeah…that didn’t work out so well for the assassins’ side.
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I would miss it, but I wouldn’t blame you—but wouldn’t you rather have the whole escalator wall as a scarf?
MTA museum shop, take note.
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Sounds like someone needs a cookie