lga isn't that bad imo but I also I could like walk there
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
I flew into JFK once too I don't remember that tho
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
I also flew into the twin towers and then bush started the war on terror and invaded iraq
sorry ya'll
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
o great one time dayo, leguardia experts here, iatees lived in ny for what 6 months, thx 4 the advice noobs
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
*stands on the lefthand side of the escalator*
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
ya but the 6 months were very close to lga I got time to study it
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
newark is the most underrated of all airports
― max max max max, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
max is from nj btw everyone
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
lol I've flown into newark probably the most times
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
I like LGA just cuz it's a shorter cabride from my hovel.
"take the miles, always take the miles" - from max's remake of The Godfather
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
if you're getting picked up or taking a cab to wburg then yeah lga
if you're taking public transit jfk
― iatee, Thursday, December 22, 2011 8:02 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
I read this as "If you're taking public transit jfc"
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
that too
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
definitely closer if you live or are staying in manhattan
― higgs boson (the deli llama), Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but you have to deal w/ the shame factor of having landed in jersey
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
But yeah, laguardia is significantly closer geographically to williamsburg, although the airtrain to A to L is not terrible. Cab ride from LaGuardia is probably not expensive though -- maybe like $15 and you'll be there in 15 minutes, I'd guess? I think there are also bus lines but I never tried that.
Also LaGuardia is pretty small and in my experience the few times I've been there that's meant getting in and out fast. Guess it depends when you fly.
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
meant to say west side of manhattan - LGA is closer to east side
― higgs boson (the deli llama), Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
none of the bus lines is gonna be worth it from lga
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
are
I dunno why you would be grudging these kids just because they're organized. maybe because this is AMERICA where we SHOULDN'T GIVE HANDOUTS because everybody must WORK for their LIVELIHOOD
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, December 22, 2011 7:56 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
Lol "organized" -- you make it sound like they formed a cooperative. They are being ripped off by some old creep in their neighborhood who takes most of their proft and does who knows what else to them.
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
take the miles, always take the miles
thiiiisss i mean cmon now
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's a stretch to assume that the kids are getting molested
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
here i just see candy. in seoul ppl sell all kinds of cool stuff on the train. i have a square cloth with korean sign language alphabet printed on it and this great knit sponge/dish cleaner
― rayuela, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
newark airport is p bad imo, i might be conflating memory of eating a sad bagel at newark airport dunkin donuts w/a more considered analysis of its location & transport infrastucture though. i maybe just found the trains there confusing.
alsoa man singing sam cooke's "a change is going to come" on the train yesterday made me shed actual tears.
― bene_gesserit, Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:30 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
ya but it's kinda cynical for him to use 'change' like that
― iatee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:32 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
lol
― Never translate German (schlump), Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
my rule is never, ever fly into laguardia if you can help it
― max max max max, Thursday, December 22, 2011 3:01 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
^^^
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, December 22, 2011 3:08 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
yall are crazy, LGA's a lot easier to get in and out of
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
totally agree. 20 min to LGA vs 1 hr to JFK but admittedly this is just b/c i live in queens. also the bus stop is right outside my apt.
― rayuela, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
I go through LGA when I can. It's an easier/faster/cheaper cab ride to/from my aerie. If I go through JFK these days, I'll suffer the interminable Airtrain/subway ride (which isn't much better than the M60 iirc) on the way back. I appreciate EWR's public transit convenience, but New Jersey is a tunnel too far.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Thursday, 22 December 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
BTW protip if you are renting a car from NYC the airports usually have way better deals, especially if you bid via priceline.
― Hurting, Thursday, 22 December 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
thx dudes I go to LGA why becuase miles
― river wolf, Thursday, 22 December 2011 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
how much are folks paying for internet? i have time warner and the cheapest plan when I signed up was $33/m. sometimes it's so effing slow...but I can't bring myself to pay any more than that!
― rayuela, Friday, 23 December 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I believe that's what my plan costs too. I refuse to also pay $50 more for basic cable. Just have internet.
― Hurting, Friday, 23 December 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
I flew into newark today and when I was walking out I passed the security screening point and they had erected these glass corridors that let people through two abreast and it was like children of mine so upsetting
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Saturday, 24 December 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
i flew into newark airport yesterday and didn't think it too bad (well, until the waiting curbside for my ride to pick me up part, but that was arguably worse for my brother)
new york penn station today, otoh, was hellish
― silvana mangano, Saturday, 24 December 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2011/12/23/the_most_expensive_cities_have_the_highest_wages.html
people in the Bay Area, the DC area, New York, and Boston really are richer than people in Tucson and Akron it's not all given back in higher housing costs.
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, 25 December 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
so I'll be in NYC from the 30th to the 4th
no plans for NYE just yet, but I should prob able to get lunch on the 2nd and 3rd while my bros are at work, I think?
― river wolf, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
ay is off til the 3rd
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
This year I'm breaking my streak of doing absolutely nothing for the new year and spending the day in NYC. Going to try and hit a few museums; my absolute musts are Daphne Guinness at the Fashion Institute of Technology (my last chance to see it, and the closest I'll get to the McQueen exhibit I missed) and Carsten Höller at the New Museum, but I'm going to try and fit in the Neue Galerie too if at all possible.
No real plans for the actual Eve part of New Year's, so I'm probably just going to head back into Philly and do my usual NYE ritual; pile of blankets, bottle of wine, stack of DVDs, terrible sleep-related decisions
― Telephone Thing, Friday, 30 December 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/nyregion/nyc-traffic-deaths-set-100-year-low-mayor-says.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
that ray kelly is given any credit is a joke, police dept is pretty useless.
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
oh wow you're making those people going 70 on a cross-street at rush hour wear their seatbelts
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
ray kelly gets credit for everything
― max max max max, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
was just noticing yesterday how cavalier new yorks pedestrians are, take some care w/yr lives fools!
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
it's just insane how casually people will stand *inches* away from cars going 60+. I think about this like 3 times a day on queens blvd.
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah exactly i was on the manhattan side of the williamsburg bridge pedestrian entrance and people are just standing right at the edge of the road waiting for the light to change while cars are zooming so fast onto the bridge
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah that's easily one of the worst areas for deaths. total clusterfuck.
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
i saw a guy on a bike purposely cross two lanes of traffic to wait in the three foot wide only separated by trafic cones divider
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
i always noticed this but being away from ny for a while now im like WTF
everytime i go out running im like omg so many cars coming for every direction wut do i do
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
I'm all for being an asshole pedestrian grr new york right, but anything that requires believing that nyc drivers are always gonna see you and care is a belief that borders on religious
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
I just pretend I'm robert duvall in apocalypse now
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
I also keep my parents advice in mind which is "if they hit you they have to pay the hospital bills"
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
only if they stop afterwards
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link