Now finishing up my Mark Volman tribute by listeninig to The Crossfires album, the surf rock act that eventually became The Turtles. So much would come from this unassuming surf curio music.apple.com/us/album/out...
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Now finishing up my Mark Volman tribute by listeninig to The Crossfires album, the surf rock act that eventually became The Turtles. So much would come from this unassuming surf curio music.apple.com/us/album/out...
I had a 50/50 chance after round one and I chose … poorly. 🤣
For them it is literally a feature, not a bug.
I was a big Deadhead in high school - saw them 11 times, last one was ‘82, I think. Rebalanced my life by seeing the Ramones 11 times (and more). But I remember exactly which aisle of the hardware store on Calyer & Manhattan I was in when I heard the news of Jerry’s death on the radio.
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
Dental plan?
I bet AI could answer that…
Trump is so bad at his job he failed to bribe Mayor McBribe with an infinite number of bribes
More likely he found the leprechaun’s pot of gold.
You knew the payoff was coming.
Jay “I lost the House” Jacobs? THAT Jay Jacobs?
LOL. nypost.com/2025/09/02/u...
Oh, Carolyn, no. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
It is my 43rd anniversary as a permanent NYer (thanks for reminding me!!). I was born here, but moved here permanently at 19. A perfect place for neurotic introverts.
Anyway, this building was demolished at about what would have been the 161st anniversary of the opening of the church and at about what was the 174th or the 182nd anniversary of the construction of the building. More details (and notes) here: noveltytheater.net/buildings/st...
The German church remained on North 5th Street into the 1960s. In 1967 the building was bought by the Spanish Calvary Baptist Church of Williamsburg.
It is likely that the front section of the church was constructed in 1864. You can see that front section in this photo from 2005. A spire was added sometime, maybe in the 1880s. It survived into the 1940s, and may have been removed due to a fire in 1957.
In 1850 a new District 2 school building was erected on the south side of North 5th Street at the corner of Driggs, and the old school was possibly converted into the new city prison at that time.
The jail (sometimes described as the North Side Court House or "the cells")was constructed in 1851, but itself may have been a conversion from the original District 2 school. Secondary sources say that the school (now PS 17) was established in 1843 in a brick building on the north side of North 5th.
St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church was a German congregation, established in February, 1864 in a tenement house on North 3rd. That same year, the congregation purchased the former Williamsburgh city jail on North 5th Street between Driggs and Roebling and converted the building into a church.
This was the former St. Matthew German Evangelical Lutheran Church. I never wrote about this building because the origins were always murky. There were 3 churches that were built on North 5th Street between 1850 and 1865 (this one, Calvary PE and the North 5th ME), and they were often mixed up. 🧵
As a historic preservation professional, wow. Just, wow.
Definitely a conversion from an 1851 building, and possibly the 1851 building was a conversion of an 1843 building. I'll post details.
Is that what he is saying has no character? And it replaced the used car lot?
The one on the right is a new building?
Didn’t realize this Church was coming down. Building might have dated to the 1840s. Was once the Williamsburgh town jail, later a German Evangelical Lutheran Church. (Not 100% clear they were the same building.) newyorkyimby.com/2025/08/demo...
PSA: you can’t get on the train if I can’t get off the train! 📽️: @babymcgoo.bsky.social
Japan is more like east coast, DC area - hot and insanely humid. Saw people working in these where the “feels like” temp was over 100. But not 115, and not your dry heat.
Totally - police, construction workers, etc wear them all over Japan.
Might make you stand out too much, but these are quite popular among people in Japan who have to work in 90*+ weather.
I was wondering why my battery was running down so quickly yesterday, like barely an hour from full charge to shut down - activity monitor showed FF sucking up energy. I assumed it was a particular site, but maybe this? Ugh.
Omg all the billionaires will flee Atlanta! www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
Welcome back. We missed you!
BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop? #windows95
Classic tale of hubris.
Update: it got funny again
I think there have been less than 140 school days this year.
This is how the US got dragged into the Vietnam War
“‘I came with an open mind ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT I AM GOING TO ENDORSE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOMINEE,’ Clarke told NY1…, adding that she did not yet have a timeline for any endorsements in the mayoral race.” Fixed it for Yvette!! www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/26/m...
I think we're definitely past the point where this reflects much more poorly on Jeffries than it does on Mamdani. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/26/m...
One feature of corrupt, authoritarian countries is that they have a bunch of rarely enforced laws on the books, ranging from reasonable to unreasonable, that everybody is expected to break, and the regime can selectively enforce them to punish its political enemies www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Whee!
This morning we gathered on McGuinness Blvd. After a beloved Greenpoint teacher was killed in a crash, the local community thought they had won a transformative redesign of this dangerous road — then the work was halted by City Hall corruption. As Mayor, I’ll finish the job.
True. But it’s going to be a riot watching Andy try to do this.
This is literally his secret sauce. Most NYers love NYC.
i've decided to run for mayor of new york city. i hate this city, i hate being in it, i think everyone in it is stupid except for me, when people have fun here it makes me mad, i don't know why i'm running, i don't want to be mayor, and i have $4. see you at the polls
A thing Zohran & his campaign have powerfully tapped into -- and that his scavenger hunt captures so perfectly -- is that a vast majority of the people who live here genuinely *love* New York City. We wouldn't stay here otherwise!
LaGuardia statue on LaGuardia Place?
Hakeem Jeffries voice: This enthusiasm for the Democratic nominee is just a distraction.
A fun and engaging campaign that is bringing people out and growing the tent? Don’t tell the Democratic Party.
“Real officers do not wear ski masks.” 🤔
Who forced Cracker Barrel to do a dumb logo change? (And it is a banal rebranding.) I mean, this company shot themselves in the foot and everyone is blaming woke?
Why just tell that you are a federal agent?
That’s a … brisk walk? (Or barely faster than a typical NYCer walk.)
Omg @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is running an NYC-wide scavenger hunt tomorrow. What…fun! www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6VU3JXS/
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
Dominohenge is almost upon us.
A bit lost in this reporting is how divisive the ILM and Argentos made the McG Blvd fight within the community. They poured gasoline on a smoldering fire and fanned the flames of a culture war that vilified safe-streets advocates and led to personal attacks against community advocates.
Light wood frame construction should not be legal for any vaguely urbanized area, and sprinklers should not be required in most new buildings
Bribery. That “bold departure” is bribery. Strunk & White famously said - simplify, simplify. Do you know why I know that? Because the @nytimes.com fucking told me that 17 years ago. archive.nytimes.com/afterdeadlin...
Not letting Tim Walz do Tim Walz was a huge mistake.
* but only for that part of the block where the cars have deigned to move
Paris streets are really clean and cleaned daily, partly due to this system. Contrast to our system of having huge machines push dirt and sludge around.* I think part of our American problem is that we would rather pay for machines than labor.
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
The Times is ON IT!
I see lots of caps. LOTS OF ALL CAPS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Goes hard imo
And the Mayor has all that Bitcoin…
Everyone is talking about @katiehonan.bsky.social tonight, but @thecity.nyc also had this story tonight. ILM is even higher in the Adams orbit, PLUS a likely North Brooklyn connection. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/e...
Let your snacks become your kickbacks
Don’t talk a no-no while it’s happening. Now you ruined it.
This wasn’t even the only Eric-Adams-adjacent crime story today - indictments of Adams cronies coming tomorrow. Completely unrelated to potato chips! www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/e...
Just another day at the office.
I mean, this should go wildly viral.
Particularly not her - sold her soul, didn’t even get a bag of chips.
It’s important to pay for local journalism but not like this. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
i just called 9-1-1
O M Fucking G!!
I’m guessing no historic tax credits? 🤣
More vaporware from Elmo.
“Senator Brad Lander” sounds nice.
Ah - upping the pedantry - nice! But … I think that is a single dipole, so not rabbit ears. As I remember, sets came with a fold down antenna but you could attach an external pair of ears for better reception.
Very pedantically, those are not rabbit ears
(Everyone except Andrew Cuomo, that is - he has never lived (on his own) in NYC.)
Not sure sweetheart deal is the right phrase, but a good reminder that most NYers have had some sort of help affording housing along the way. And a 421-a tax break - which over 25 years will probably save Hakeem upward of $100k is a LOT of help.
I can get behind this. Even simple boxes with little or no ornamentation are better than one box pretending to be lots of boxes.
Guess I’ll break out the cocktail shaker.
I didn’t know (or understand) that my first NYC apartment was rent stabilized until I got the first renewal notice which showed the specific rate increase approved by the city. I’m sure there was something in the lease, but 22-year old me didn’t read it that carefully.
You’re also probably unfit to be HUD Secretary
Because this bitch never had to rent an apartment like a normal person
Any architectural historians out there have a copy of this unpublished paper: Hubka, Thomas C. “Cincinnati’s Housing for the Working Class: 1865-1930: The National and Regional Influences in the Making of Common Houses.” 2008? 🗃️
Can we PLEASE call this Trump’s Folly? (Also, I joked last week that Trump was going to give Alaska back to the Russians. And here we go…)
LGM!
June 2022, crime was peaking?
cite whatever statistics you choose, they simply do not jibe with the image of times square in 1979 that i have in my head. gangs roving a crumbling dystopia and the gangs got themes. some are dressed like baseball players. some are mimes. some are girls. were just trying to get back to coney island
I don’t know about DC, but in NYC the police doesn’t even do basic traffic enforcement unless it’s for political theater (cf, bikes, e-bikes).
An amazing restoration project and an amazing piece of public art.
Actually, “Best by” dates are just recommendations. You can eat these past the “best by” date, which means they are good for forever and a day.
This one ☝️