Watching the city I grew up in being reborn in real time

The “says” has been gentrified out of rock paper scissors

What the hell is an encumbrance depot?

The groundbreaking legislation banning broker fees has resulted in just three fines paid, @davidfbrand.bsky.social reports gothamist.com/news/nyc-ten...

Wegmans isnt fucking around due to this storm

Forget micromobility, Williamsburg is revolutionizing micro-pseudo-policing

One of the oldest parking lots in Manhattan vanished a few weeks ago, creating a wide open space to hang out next to the East River on 34th street

Forty minute wait for a PATH train at WTC and the schedule online is wrong because someone forgot to manually update it before the weekend started

Why is the NYSDMV the worst at FOIL they just quoted me $31,000 for a request

Coney Island fireworks tonight CANCELLED due to the tide being too high

Annual shoutout to this princess tree which has grown stronger despite being chopped down a week ahead of the UN general assembly every summer for 15 years

NYC's new greenway master plan plots world of possibilities to get around city https://gothamist.com/news/nycs-new-greenway-master-plan-plots-world-of-possibilities-to-get-around-city

One one corner, two councilmembers are protesting against the food blockade in Gaza, on the adjacent corner, Anthony Weiner just walked into Smith and Wollensky

Long Island police dog attacks passerby at funeral for fallen NYPD officer in Bronx www.instagram.com/reel/DMyHeMU...

Today's NYC Rockaway shark report: three shark sightings that turned out NOT to be sharks after drones were sent up to check them out, per parks department

Just when you think you’ve seen every type of ‘emergency vehicle’ in NYC here goes the NYCHA emergency services truck in the style of an NYPD vehicle

DOT crews are busy replacing signs on the BQE which now direct drivers to the Holland tunnel rather than Downtown Brooklyn as they had since at least 2011 (old on left new on right)

After two false starts with new designs, the NYPD is reverting back to this decades-old livery which commissioner Keechant Sewell sought to update in 2023

A serious crash earlier this morning left the body of one victim lying in the middle of Bowery. The path of the destruction leads from the exit of the Manhattan Bridge to the doors of a jewelry store

It’s so hot that i walked out the door and found my super hosing down the deli guys feet

This Bronx desire path is so well worn it’s on google maps

Big changes to NYC ferry routes could be arriving this winter, including a Staten Island to Brooklyn boat, the first of its kind since 1960-something(?) www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/14/n...

NYC Parks officials tell me that the parks worker who appeared in a viral video this weekend spouting homophobic rhetoric will be fired. www.instagram.com/reel/DMBtNeZ...

This plan will basically create a squad of e-bike riding pseudo cops to police delivery people by 2028. The NYC T&LC police have existed for decades, have never had guns, but can arrest people -- mostly cab drivers. gothamist.com/news/dozens-...

We labor under the threat of severe storms daily this summer

Tilden/Riis - Mamdani Rockaway - Adrienne Adams Breezy Point - Cuomo Orchard - Blake Hamptons - Tilson

Looks like the Staten Island data in this story was (at least to some extent) skewed by a scheme led by a Queens-based company that offered licenses for $1,600 without having to take the road test www.silive.com/crime-safety...

The Windea Reliance is at the Brooklyn Navy Yard today. It’s used to bring workers to offshore wind farms and is owned by the same company that runs NYC Ferry

The Wynd Scylla “the most advanced offshore wind farm installation vessel” seen this morning from the Amtrak in New London, CT. Nearby is a yard full of massive turbine nacelles.

I wish our train system in the USA was better. I was booked on a nearly $400 r/t to Rhode Island on Amtrak and now I might not even get a seat because they oversold and offer no compensation for switching to a train that leaves 8 hours earlier

Despite the new, lower speed limit, this Citibike made it to Rockaway. It was abandoned

If your favorite pool is closed this summer it might be because somebody pooped in it and the parks department had to add a bunch of chlorine and cycle the poop out of the water gothamist.com/news/these-n...

That was one of the craziest election days I've ever covered, and one of the most vivid pictures of NYC I've ever witnessed

Always obsessed with how the family living in the Commandant's House in the Navy Yard can turn their whole district one color, this time just one of them voted for Brad Lander in the primary

At Brad Lander's election night party in Brooklyn, the energy is that of a victory, not at all a defeat. "We are on a path to win a city that all New Yorkers can afford and where everyone belongs," Lander says.

Brad Lander is campaigning at Atlantic Terminal. He shares his RCV ballot: 1. Lander 2. Mamdani 3. Myrie 4. Adrienne Adams 5. Micheal Blake

Sometime in the last few days one of the longest running hotspots for placard abuse and abandoned cars in Brooklyn was mostly cleared away (under the bqe on Navy St)

NEW: The city has decided to let the Elizabeth Street Garden stay for good, according to first deputy mayor Randy Mastro. Councilmember Chris Marte has 'agreed to rezonings in his district' to increase affordable housing in the area, Mastro says. "This is an example of how government should work"

First firefly spotted (central park like 7 of them)

Luckily he doesn't own a car www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/19/n...

NYC candidate for mayor Zellnor Myrie is hitting the campaign (election?) trail hard tomorrow. His campaign logo reminds me of a dentist office or a department store.

Thanks to a FOIL somebody filed, I was able to learn today about Amtrak's rather strict dress code, or I guess not strict for any uniformed organization

One of the mopeds being crushed by the city on Staten Island caught on fire. Also there’s a citibike in the pile

NYPD commissioner is asking lawmakers to make the possession of ATVs in NYC a misdemeanor. They’re already illegal to operate but she calls this a loophole that needs closing. Also, these mopeds are about to be crushed

The newest Staten Island ferries have these bollard type things on the front which can be used as a desk

The Elizabeth Street Garden created their own mayoral ranking based on if candidates would proceed with evicting them or not. Notably absent is mayor Adams, who has seemingly reversed course on kicking the garden out of the city-owned plot of land

Haven’t seen this before: NYC Department of Investigation protest monitors at the rally downtown now

Debris from SpaceX rockets are washing up on the beach in Mexico south of the Texas launch site www.krgv.com/news/debris-...

An off duty police officer (honda) just ran a red light on the Bowery and hit an uber. The officer refused to identify himself and started yelling at me for asking his name. Nobody was injured in the collision.