Crazy to think the bad AQI day we're having today in NYC was just "normal" for summer in the 80s-90s. (Note that 2001-5 overlap across the two plots). Data via www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-...

it is a brand new day in Brooklyn www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/17/b...

To every New Yorker: this rule is not yet in effect. The earliest it could take effect is Sept. 18, 2026. New York City will use every tool at our disposal to fight this attack on immigrant families and the communities that make our city the greatest on earth.

Roughly 100 wildfires are raging out of control in Ontario, sending smoke streaming more than 1,000 miles from their origin. www.wired.com/story/northe...

"Options include stepping up airstrikes, sending ground forces to seize Iranian islands near the Strait of Hormuz and bombing a fortified site that could be used for covert nuclear work."

think there needs to be some kind of moratorium on use of the word diarrhea in headlines

“.. We’ve burned through all of the buffers we had. Everything,” said one trader. “All of that’s now gone,” he said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6c31...

US inflation is the highest in the G7.

2d Cir. upholds NYC's law prohibiting brokers' fees. Held: the law does not violate federal or state free speech rights, nor does it violate the contracts clause. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/OP...

I wish NYC rental landlords would just decide on one set of documents for rentals. Bad enough that they all use totally different application systems, but I would really love to not waste my time pulling different amounts of bank statements, rent payments, differing pages of my tax returns, etc.

Turned 36 yesterday and not sure I feel any different than I did before! I guess I’m officially in my late 30s (?)

Fed hike by September now 90% priced, US 2y yield just trading at the highest level since Feb '25.

The President just announced a 20% toll on all cargo shipped through Hormuz, payable...to the US>

This better apply to internet providers bc I have never found a business that makes it harder to cancel than Optimum

MetroLoft faces a more than $30 million lawsuit alleging that the roof and walls at a Tribeca luxury building were ‘literally falling apart.’ on.wsj.com/3RatGhA

NY FED: “.. nearly half of firms that have paid tariffs still plan additional price increases to offset these costs, with some expecting to raise prices six months or more in the future.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/07/more...

Thinking about the man I met at a party over the weekend who was explaining the futures market to me - which to be clear is something I cover - but also didn’t know what duration risk was

GS DESK: “.. The selloff in momentum has now surpassed 20pp in the last week, exceeding our short term expectations for a summer slump in the factor. Hyperscalers and Datacenter Equipment valuations are near liberation day lows.”

Here's a sightseeing bus for tourists in New York City in 1904.

Imagine saying this on the record to the Times

Another mayor, another plan for bus action. The difference this time? The MTA has signed on as a partner and has made its own commitments to help speed up buses nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/07/08/t...

Ped plaza for the win in my neighborhood. The game is on with plenty of chairs

Pfizer conversion is going to be lawsuit central after seeing those buckling steel columns. The structural engineers must be freaking out

A construction worker filmed video showing support beams buckling inside a building under renovation in Manhattan, which has since been evacuated.

Some sobering graphs from the EIA today. This one shows that, while the rise of renewables lately has been notable, the real energy story of the 21st century in the US has been the large-scale replacement of coal by natural gas.

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

clam box, ipswich, massachusetts, 1984

Feels like these FIFA-approved victory songs (Country Roads, Wonderwall) were an effort to stamp out the kind of stuff that Mexico was chanting tonight. And ultimately FIFA didn’t even bother trying to stop the game for it…

“.. The Florida for-sale market is flashing warning signs: 45% of listings have taken a price cut (6.6 pts above the national rate) “.. 1 in 10 homes are selling for less than the original owner paid.” - Parcl Labs

lol

on the east river ferry and uhhhhh

The Goodyear blimp is flying past my house… nypost.com/2026/07/02/u...

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Yall this wind is crazy

The idea of working in this weather is crazy

I’ve been home since 730 and my apartment is just starting to really cool down

cant believe nyc is not only walkable but climbable

cliffon's club harlem, kentucky avenue, atlantic city, new jersey, 1978

ok i am actually reading this book now and it's really good. yes it's a finance textbook but i love that the explanations are pretty plain language. i am probably going to order a used copy to keep

Hot Mess Express Elm City, NC

brokers need to be stopped. they're calling everything in bed stuy 'stuyvesant heights' now on the listings.

Council members are being briefed as we speak, tho, on a city budget deal that appears to have been agreed to by both sides, per sources. The deal involves $125M in new annual baseline funding for CityFHEPS + $50M more in Council funding, just for the upcoming fiscal year.

There's no sugar-coating Slaughter. It's an enormously important ruling (far more important than the other three decisions #SCOTUS handed down today). It's a huge win for Trump/the executive. And it's going to have massive ramifications for the functioning of the government long after Trump is gone.

We have Slaughter and Cook. By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS overturns Humphrey's Executor and lets Trump fire heads of independent agencies. But by a 5–4 vote, it refuses to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Roberts' core holding is that (a) the Federal Reserve is special because of history, and (b) Trump did not allow Lisa Cook to exercise her statutory right to dispute the charges against her. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

The US will endure one of its most expansive heatwaves in history this week. Then another long lasting record breaking heat dome will plague #Europe again, back to back on its worst #heatwave in its history! With #elnino on top of a heated globe, expect the unexpected this year!! END

New acquisition for the Transportation Library: Fancy Cycling: Trick Riding for Amateurs, 1901.

shoutout to everyone who recommended Apteka in pittsburgh. one of the best meals i have had this year