Which train stop gets you to the Brooklyn Central Library quicker from Manhattan? Grand Army Plaza or Brooklyn Museum/Eastern Parkway?

The SpaceX IPO is so absurd it really feels like Elon and Wall Street are spitting in the face of every retail or retirement investor, especially with the BS rule changes. youtu.be/IHD8BDFYyGI?...

This is irrationally pissing me off right now. It’s like everything evolving into a crab but for billionaires

It’s so absurd! We can’t allow people who live and look like women use the women’s room for “safety”. Instead; we must force people who live and look like men use it instead. How does that make any fucking sense!?!?!

This is totally unacceptable and a breach of civilian control over FDNY. The chief who allowed this (or the firefighters who did it without their permission) should be sanctioned.

A cheat sheet to what these words mean: Institutional: lots of ordinary people pooled together (REITs that you can buy on the stock market, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds) Private equity: rich people who aren’t related to each other Family office: rich people who are related to each other

Do data centers have substantial negative externalities? Yes. Do people hate those negative externalities? Yes. Do people incorrectly think water usage is the greatest harm from data centers? Yes. Was the negative externality AOC showed accurate and true? Yes! The only liar here is you!

It’s seed oils. He’s another MAHA idiot. Is Aaron Rodgers gonna be the team dietician.

In 2023, I reported on a network of people exploiting weak rules in New Jersey and Georgia to illegally sell temporary license plates through sham car dealerships. Yesterday, DOJ announced federal charges against eleven people involved in some of those dealerships: www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

There’s a Bluesky parallel here. Hating SNL is similar to hating the Dems. You’ll always get praise for it. Well I’m here to bring back cringe. I fucking love SNL and will watch nearly all their skits after the fact on YouTube. They’re trying! And I appreciate it. The shit is mostly funny.

🚨 Delighted to announce I am USMNT reporter for talkSPORT at the World Cup. Incredible line-up including Kyle Walker, Stuart Pearce, David Moyes, Fabian Hurzeler, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Emmanuel Petit and Brad Freidel.🎙️ talksport.com/football/wor...

Got my costume picked out and everything already!

My family looked at the building on the left when we moved deeper into Brooklyn for more space when we had kids. Despite being 2 blocks from Prospect Park, the entire street scape is like a suburban stroad. It’s feels very “unwalkable” despite existing high density on OP parallel 2 blocks over.

This is the type of stuff my mom and aunties used to say about my HS girlfriends. “She look so old”. “Her skin ok?” Thanks Dai-yee.

One of the absolute biggest time savers as a busy working parent. I don’t do it for the environment. To save cash. I do it simply because it literally gives me more free time. In suburban America there are time trade offs. In dense Brooklyn and Manhattan; it means more time with my family.

This is the kind of stuff that is preserved in "Victorian Flatbush", either by landmarks or zoning or both. These are right off the subway and cannot be replaced by apartment buildings. Is this rezoning going to touch those?

My degrees are in international relations and finance. I’m a lawyer that works on complex cross-border financial transactions and like 90% of my formal education is now garbage. Just waves of this shit. Crypto - it’s just greater fool theory! Strict scrutiny for fundamental rights? Not if trans.

The thing I’ve learned about reading fiction, is that you need the patience to make it through that first 25% of the book. Like 1/2 the time; I’m like fuck this. This is going nowhere. But you need to be an adult and eschew the need for instant gratification. And you’re usually well rewarded!

Has Zohran posted about Arsenal winning the league yet? Anyway, this is one area where American sports championships are better. We have a tournament! Someone needs to win! Here, Arsenal wins the league today because Man City just tied Bournemouth.

Spotted from the Manhattan Bridge last night. I wonder what they were filming.

I am kind of a big deal!

this guy’s collecting pristine stuff out of the garbage to sell at the Chelsea flea market, like these boots that have never been worn

LIRR strike over. Details TK.

it is a conflict of interest for elected representatives to march with striking public employees. I know NY politicians never get to do it so they aren't used to it, but you are supposed to be on the other side of the table

It makes me super happy that Bruce Blakeman wants us to keep showering the LIRR in cash and in the next sentence will talk about the favorable business climate in South Carolina or Arkansas and not a single person will make any connection between these things

I don’t know how to tell anyone this but paying people $250,000 to do $125,000’ worth of work (and lay the groundwork for a $250,000 pension) isn’t sustainable in the short or long terms, take me to the guillotine now

Me, when a normal union goes on strike: 🪧✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼🪧

Me, when the LIRR goes on strike:

TT's THREE RUN BLAST TIES IT UP 🔥

Reupping this thread on the decades-long fight leading to this strike from a month ago (and then I'm going running) =>

I grew up a relatively high SES liberal. But thank god I’m mixed race and not full on white because the white liberal guilt shit is so insufferable to observe. The performative self-flagellating. An urban neighborhood is becoming whiter. Please repent! Move to an all white suburb with good schools!

Crazy how active my family is on weekends just using our cargo e-bikes across Brooklyn. Movies, gymnastics, Best Buy (twice, second time to get the racket we forgot), clothes shopping, brunch, tennis, horse back riding, library trips all in one day.

Amazing. They have shuttle buses from NJ because LIRR is shut down!?!? They’re also promoting bike share to get them the game but those damn Philistines also ban bike helmets in the stadium.

Hearts of Midlothian and things of that nature.

Atlantic + GCM can squeeze in the entire peak direction schedule if the LIRR has access to all its rolling stock. There’s no reason to chop the trains at Jamaica and dump everyone onto the E or the J.

I guarantee that if Nolan had made the cyclops black, Musk would be totally fine with that.

This tweet, for a Ross Barkan story that copied my lede and reporting, now has more than 10x the views of the original. Ross hasn't apologized or acknowledged it; maybe he's just waiting for me to shut up. Without any explanation, I'm left to wonder how many times he's done this

Absolutely ridiculous way to do enforcement. MTA should never delay a bus to do fare enforcement. "The agency’s fare enforcement “EAGLE” teams are ramping up an initiative where they halt buses for about five to 10 minutes while they scan riders’ phones or OMNY cards to check if they paid."

I closed my deals this week so I can hang. Where are all the sunset park Mahjong Clubs at? Still having those meet up’s in Industry City? I only play for Mon Woo. No chicken feet.

Brooklyn Streets. #BikeNYC

Teoscar Hernandez or AJ Ewing?

New from me: What We've Learned from the First 40 Games ABS is changing more than how we call balls & strikes NL domination WBC=slow starts Pirates bound for October? Braves! Rays! Was MLB right or wrong on Murakami McGonigle/Griffin & future of baseball www.nytimes.com/athletic/728...

More than once at work I’ve had to hide my tears over “the America I know is lost and I’m mourning it still”. I fucking hate this shit so much and every single person who helped make it happen.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Add this to the next participatory budgeting list: A: $500K to shorten a street crossing near a school; B: $750K to install modern A/C in PS 212 C: $1MM for Jim Walden to fart out talking points from 2014 D: $1.25MM for ADA accessible curb-cuts at local library.

The % of shooting victims in NYC who are Black or Hispanic is 96%, and it has varied very little—even as total numbers have changed. This racial disparity exists year after year after year. It’s amazing how few are aware. (Or purposefully ignored it in related public policy and police discussions).

How timely - Tropic Thunder: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Twitter was the gold standard for breaking news and now this is the best we can do. Oh great. Really useful. Like Bernard Shaw reporting from the Al Rasheed hotel in Baghdad.