the Station fire happened in 2003 and nobody has managed to learn a single thing in all this time. don't work at clubs with acoustic foam on the ceilings and a bunch of candles everywhere. don't go to these clubs. the people who own them do not give a shit if you live or die

Whoa, egg prices are now at a 5-year low... 67 cents/dozen wholesale -88% YoY @teconomics

The Manhattan Institute's City Journal today published a piece anchored in a favorite chestnut of both the landlord lobby and the leftists no-development types: That ~50,000 rent stabilized apartments are sitting empty. Except, that's not true. www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/m...

Why yes, I would like it, in fact, I might even like to live in one of those "conditions" myself!

Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair

NJTransit's naming rights deal with BetMGM for the Meadowlands rail spur has come to an end, so now the line shows up as white text on a white background on NJT's app 🤦‍♂️

Prefab facade units at 80 Clarkson

this is almost as good as the Dutch word for "baseball", which I am overjoyed to reveal is "honkbal"

Really like these new status cards. Far more helpful and usable than the size 12 ticker font that preceded them.

Andrew Cuomo says he will continue to not live in New York City if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor.

At least the "SHARKS IN PIT" light isn't on.

From @reinhart.bsky.social: Dallas' parking reforms, though not 100% comprehensive, are starting to have an effect in Dallas. “Parking reform won’t be as transformative as people think it will be, but it will free things up around the edges.” As it should be! www.dmagazine.com/publications...

Homeownership rate by decade of birth by current age (United States) www.datawrapper.de/_/27AUY/

Breaking news: DHS has uncovered Antifa's diabolical plot to "de-ICE" thousands of airplanes.

btw, a point to keep in mind when you see the claim that private equity or Wall Street is pricing families out of homes: Homeowner families have never owned a larger portion of the housing stock.

🚨NEW RESULTS (w/ Slattery & Nober) - When gov't engineers retire, highway projects cost more: the engineers pay for themselves 6 times over - Improving gov’t engineer quality from the 25th to 75th percentile reduces costs by 14%, equal to 3x avg. engineer pay Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Interim U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III directed his staff to remove the Times Union and its [staff] from his office’s media distribution list after the newspaper published a story last month about him listing a boarded-up residence in Albany as his address." -- www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

oh my god

Seriously, check out the Tax Equity Now case. Or for that matter the Post’s past crusade going after Bill de Blasio as a beneficiary of the tax inequity at his Park Slope properties. law.justia.com/cases/new-yo...

Lmao

Does anyone on the Cuomo campaign or who has endorsed Cuomo live in New York City and I'll even include Yonkers

The Port Authority has broken ground on a project to provide pedestrian access for the first time from Newark's South Ward to Newark Airport. www.nj.com/news/2025/06...

The cool thing about Zellnor Myrie is I personally have interacted with everyone of his voters online.

what corporate-speak emails ACTUALLY mean

Weekend PATH service will be getting even worse this month—trains from 33rd Street to Journal Square will detour via Hoboken AND Exchange Place. 38 minutes to take a trip that's 4 miles as the crow flies. AND service will still be cut in half, only every 20 minutes. panynj.gov/port-authori...

It's always astounding to me that just 30 years ago, the Port Authority could put together one of the most forward-looking payment integration schemes in the world, and work hard to get other agencies on board, all out of a sense of civic duty. I miss that Port Authority.

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This amendment doesn’t protect trees. It just prevents more people from living near them.

I'm loving these plug and play solar+storage products. Now available in the U.S. (starting in Utah). Energy abundance! Local resilience!🔌 ⚡💚🌍

Super impressed with the attention to detail in the new @nyctransit.bsky.social screens from @wafisher.bsky.social & team. Here at Chambers St the stairs for the E are around the corner, and for the 2,3 are to the right.

In case you've been feeling like google search doesn't work anymore (for years now), no it's not just you. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I assumed this article was about zoning, because that is the most common legal tool used to block projects people in power don't like. The zoning code in Selah, WA requires 2x as many parking spaces for mosques as any other religious building. This is totally legal and many people approved it. 😵‍💫

Um, 🔌💡 -- looks like Utah just legalized "balcony" solar systems under 1200W. No permit, no interconnect agreement, no NEM. Just need to have a safety shutoff, meet NEC, and UL certification. le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/... Is there a certified product available in the US, @commercialsolarguy.com?

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

The @mta.info Digital Services team is still growing! We’re looking for frontend software engineers. We work on realtime screens in the subway and apps (like TrainTime). If you love working on impactful projects with a smart, fast-moving team, this is your job. www.mta.info/document/163...

Now we’ve got FDNY getting in on the action and installing a trash enclosure on the sidewalk

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

Comparison of speeds for the first week of January: marcel.dejean.nyc/bqe/cbdtp.html

When you absolutely positively cannot have the building be more than six stories.

But what if the concrete catches fire and people need to escape down a ramp into a gravel lot. Here's what FRA has to say about NFPA130.

And I don't think the turnstiles are even aware the card being tapped is a reduced-fare card - NYPD can't harrass people about it if they don't even know.

I had a chat with the train driver about them. He says batteries aren't used for traction power on their own, rather they give the train an extra boost when leaving stations. This allows them to downsize the diesel motor, and put less strain on the electric grid near stations when trains accelerate

Paper ads don't fail in a way that can be dangerous.