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So, fantasy authors need to read Thünen?

bernie wagenblast, whose voice new yorkers hear every time they ride the train www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/n...

And you might say “this museum has little to do with anything that existed in 1776,” and you’d be right, but that’s kind of the point—people took it as an occasion to celebrate whatever about the country they happened to think was worth celebrating.

Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks! Here’s some great advice he gave me back he was a wee lad of 95. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Happy Pride Weekend, New York! 🌈 If you're headed to the NYC Pride March, we're providing additional service on the 1 train to get you to/from the festivities. Expect larger crowds than usual around 14 St (1/2/3) and 23 St (1) stations. Some entrances at these stations will be exit/entrance only.

feels like as good a time as any to dust off and update my montage of every annual report of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

The advent of desktop publishing followed by the gradual abandonment of many printed materials altogether has really been an aesthetic loss for society. (It may have other benefits, but aesthetically it’s been terrible.)

Another day, another goodbye to an absolute legend of the Aegean and a symbol of everything wrong with the greek economy: HSV Aeolos Kenteris A icon of pride and progress when launched, she was mothballed during the recession and was led to the scrapyard a few days ago. A thread (1/7) 🧵

Tokyo flow

What is “the book” that everyone reads/refers to about your city, if there is one? Not the most encyclopedic history but e.g. (by my perception) The Power Broker for NYC, City of Quartz for LA, or Nature’s Metropolis for Chicago.

I have seen two instruction buses out today and I know it's for operator training but I prefer to imagine it's the teacher bus for the other buses. to help them learn how to be good buses

It's always interesting to see what takes people have that belie their ostensible cosmopolitanism. Judging by the discourse on this site, "Domestic migrants to my city are invaders who must be repelled" and "My country's cuisine is art and yours is garbage" seem like top contenders.

Dude I was just in a crowd that was blocking a bus and the girl behind me started chanting “MTA, MTA” and then the crowd parted to let the bus thru 😭 Greatest city in the world baby

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

HISTORY.

The Knickerbockers!

The I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-a-rendering store named after me is selling *squints*…cosmetics?

A survivor of the early days of automobility, when road signs, especially directional signs, were installed by the Automobile Clubs or the Touring Clubs and sponsored by local shops.

It’s official: the rooftop of the David Dinkins Municipal Building is now open — and free for all New Yorkers and visitors alike. Come one, come all!

Even I have been turned into the kind of person anxiously refreshing my phone on the subway to check a score.

To celebrate the New York Knicks' first NBA Finals home game since 1999, we brought back the K train for a limited run before tip-off of Game 3! On the vintage R32 train, Knicks-themed surprises were handed out while riders were hyped up by Niko Knickerbocker and MTA Music performer Chanese Elifé.

Take the K train!

Here in the hamlet of Achadas da Cruz, Madeira, a group of locals are locked in a heated debate I cannot understand except one of them keeps saying “neembee.” A mini tower crane hovers over an adjacent lot.

"Welcome to Mohawk and Hudson Railroad Takes, what's your take?" "The degraded Black Irish swarming into our fair cities of New York and Brooklyn from their wretched Papish isle to take jobs and apartments from the Anglo-Saxons who grew up here shall never be real New Yorkers." "100% agree"

The server at the restaurant I’m at with my parents described the weather as “tempestuous” and I’d say that’s accurate. I’m worried if I go outside I’ll be washed up onto an island with the Duke of Milan.

Parade of Trains!

I picked a good time to move to New York. I see why people make it their entire personality now

NOT IN SERVICE #filmphotography

I feel like eating a bagel, pizza, and Chinese food in one day is some kind of platonic NYC food day, at least for a certain era/version of NYC. (Although I am very modern, so it was Neapolitan pizza and Sichuan food. 😂)

Hard to overstate what a big problem this is, and it rears its head in basically *any* kind of transportation research you might try to do, at least in the US. Data on non-commute trips is, more often than not, just nonexistent. Unless you have the resources to collect your own data, good luck.

Fascinating finding. Railways around Tokyo rely on timed overtakes to provide exp and local service on 2 tk lines. These lines tend to have very high reliability (>95% <5m late), but there's apparently a *lot* of on-the-fly adjustment. More than 20% of overtakes do not take place where scheduled!

Back when I worked for a big university press, there was a piece of an old printing press it once operated in the lobby as a historical artifact. It stopped printing its own books in the 1980s but interestingly kept a small printing operation for the university’s own needs, itself closed recently.

🤫 Subway archaeologist Max Diamond makes an interesting discovery at Canal Street station. This is the next secret from #50SecretsofTransit, a new series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the #NYTransitMuseum.

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 I’m hiring a website content manager for MTA.info! Looking for someone who has Feelings about making good websites and smart content. Knowing how the MTA works is helpful, but this is also a great opportunity for a generalist. More info: careers.mta.org/jobs/1775830...

Me putting the finishing touches on my LinkedIn profile.

If you miss the 60 Wall Street cocaine decor lobby, Sarajevo's Holiday Inn (currently "Hotel Holiday") is the right place for you

Catch @chittimarco.bsky.social launch our new Transit Priority Atlas (TPA) on friday at 9am in Brooklyn. You know about Offset Bus Lanes and Queue Jumps but what do you know about Transit Modal Filters and Auckland's bus-speed curve? luma.com/rf2ehtyu

One day until my book is out! If you want a cute little guide of things to do in New York for every season, I got you!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/roug...

Happy National Train Day! Celebrate with us by taking a trip on public transit today 🚇🚉

The Canvas outage is fun because it’s simultaneously widespread and confined to members of a specific (large) community.

I didn’t even know double-sided tape measures were a thing. The Stanley tape measure I have at home (I don’t know where it was made) isn’t. (It’s a newer model, not like the chrome ones I grew up with, which were certainly made in Connecticut and which my parents still use after 40 or 50 years.)

Vendor whose marketing emails I inexplicably never unsubscribed from: “Come visit us at this event in New York! It’s always a great time to visit New York!”

The whole conspiracy is going to be blown open!

Hoisting this from the discussion. In the 2000s and 2010s there was quite a lot of academic debate around the concept of "urban planning culture" in Europe, as a reflection emerging from the process of EU harmonization. This map is still quite simplistic, but it captures some broad commonalities.

It seems like this may be it for Spirit Airlines. Flights in the air now may be its last. You can laugh at this bottom tier airline, but a lot of people are about to be jobless. Pilots, cabin crew, mechanics, ground staff, and countless contractors who don’t even directly work for Spirit. It sucks.

specific request, for journalism: looking to talk to New Yorkers who got a local problem solved (OR NOT) through their House rep's office ... who's gone to their federal district office to try and get help? were you successful? would love to talk about it for a story. thank you!

Anyone here want to be in The Economist? I am looking for people who grew up in the suburbs of a big US city (Chicago, NYC, LA) but are now choosing to raise kids in the city

I just discovered a fantastic, well-organized, easy-to-navigate online version of 1963 Buchanan's "Traffic in Towns." Just wonderful. trafficintowns.uk/index.php/bo...