new york city related discussion itt

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

what Bklyn nabe are you staying in? I am undecided where I'm ringing in NYE... South Slope, Slope/Flatbush Ave, Wburg.

^he asks rivwolf, but any other visitors can answer

I honestly have no idea!

country mouse

lol u dont know where ur staying

dude doesnt have time for GoogleMaps during rock climbing

Surprised he can get one hand free to type these posts tbh.

you could say that about most of ilx

tip yr waitresses everybody

Boerum hill apparently

okay are you and ice cr?m still up? morbs is gonna call me eventually. I dunno what the critical mass is.

think I've had NYE plans made for me, but I'll know more once I actually arrive (in a cab)

this was w/r/t tonight

Ah. Welp we are getting dinner and then ???

guess this prob isn't gonna happen

anybody know of a place where I could pick up a madeleine pan for cheap