new york city related discussion itt

take the miles, always take the miles

thiiiisss i mean cmon now

I think it's a stretch to assume that the kids are getting molested

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

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.

also

a 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

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

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.

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.

BTW protip if you are renting a car from NYC the airports usually have way better deals, especially if you bid via priceline.

thx dudes I go to LGA why becuase miles

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!

yeah I believe that's what my plan costs too. I refuse to also pay $50 more for basic cable. Just have internet.

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

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

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.

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?

ay is off til the 3rd

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

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.

oh wow you're making those people going 70 on a cross-street at rush hour wear their seatbelts

ray kelly gets credit for everything

was just noticing yesterday how cavalier new yorks pedestrians are, take some care w/yr lives fools!

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.

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

oh yeah that's easily one of the worst areas for deaths. total clusterfuck.

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

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

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

I just pretend I'm robert duvall in apocalypse now

I also keep my parents advice in mind which is "if they hit you they have to pay the hospital bills"

only if they stop afterwards

was just noticing yesterday how cavalier new yorks pedestrians are, take some care w/yr lives fools!

driving in NY = white-knuckle city. and wtf @ ppl who jaywalk w/strollers

sad thing is all the police dept has to do is actually just enforce the laws already on the books. city speed limit is 30 mph and they have to have a publicity campaign to try to guilt people into not speeding.

speaking of speeding cop cars there was a spectacular crash outside my window a couple months ago. heard a siren blaring and then the sickening crunch of metal-on-metal. police cruiser slammed into a cab at intersection and got completely turned around. officers had to be pried from the totaled car, looked like the entire precinct was on my block. non-fatal, luckily.

they should build a device into nyc cars so that when they go above 30 mph they are automatically ejected from their cars and the cars maybe get teleported to the moon so they can't hurt anyone anymore

that is what I am going to campaign on as mayor of NYC

ime the nyc police to not enforce traffic laws unless they happen to be in some specifically set up trap or w/e, like one time i was driving down 2nd street talking on my cell phone not paying attention and took a right going south onto 1st ave which is the wrong way down a one way and almost crashed into a stopped at a red light cop car, i just turned around and the cop did nothing

btw i am fully aware this is unconscionable behavior and i apologize

sometimes I want to get a job as a nyc traffic cop and just pull people over every 5 seconds I would be so happy

they have quotas tho, whole thing's a farce

think about all the paperwork though *boom* just took you through the thought process of a nyc transit cop

(beats up protester)

traffic cop is the definition of thankless job. regular cops call em "meter maids"

they have quotas tho, whole thing's a farce

just like the narcotics division under giuliani ;-)

The lowest quality cop I ever met was the one who drove me to my car at the lot where my car got towed to, that's where they put the worst cops

ime the nyc police to not enforce traffic laws unless they happen to be in some specifically set up trap or w/e, like one time i was driving down 2nd street talking on my cell phone not paying attention and took a right going south onto 1st ave which is the wrong way down a one way and almost crashed into a stopped at a red light cop car, i just turned around and the cop did nothing

wish this had been posted with a coda of fuckin cops rather than an acknowledgement of guilt, fuckin cops

ps fuckin cops

ban cars

who wants a drink?

me

on a plane iirc

I am free tonite and tomorrow (/no life)

also psst mr dayo will be in town iirc but I dunno what his schedule is

i could be into tipping one or two back this evening