new york city related discussion itt

dude was "working late" on a friday night but needed a cigarette break after watching a baseball game

man there was something i read recently that was talking abt the legality of this case where a bike messenger got decapitated by an elevator but i cant remember what it was

it's totally legal for an elevator to decapitate a bike messenger btw because bike messengers are obnoxious

his dreadlocks we stuck in the matrix or somethign

dude was "working late" on a friday night but needed a cigarette break after watching a baseball game

Well, to be fair, it was the Mets in the NL Championship Series he was watching so not really just "a baseball game".

Yeah. It was more just a "lol @ sad office life" comment. I've already done the "working late but screwing around" thing before, wondering all the while wtf I was doing.

visited the grand central apple store, it's enormous and doesn't really feel like 'a store'. anyway it's a big win for apple, most famous train station in the country is now just an apple advertisement. mta shoulda got a better deal for the space but I dont think they had much leverage in the discussions.

any idea why the previous rent was so low for that space?

well it's not that it was low or high it's that apple will be making $$$$ and iirc w/ other apple stores the city has managed to get a cut.

basically the value of that space as a restaurant (which it was before) or some random retail store and as 'an apple store' are very different things

yeah - just pointing out that apple is paying something like 5x what the previous tenants were for that space

dunno what the revenue sharing deal is w/ the other locations

yeah but they're really making their presence known there

I dunno it's interesting it feels very 'of the time we live in'

aka -'growing old' :(

remembering a time when a child would build an apple store in the street &c

yeah but they're really making their presence known there

I dunno it's interesting it feels very 'of the time we live in'

I know, I can't believe they added Jobs to the constellations on the ceiling.

I still don't quite think of retail inside grand central as being fully part of nyc, as silly as that might sound

oyster bar, fav tourist trap

The Posner's (Posman's?) Books in there is pretty good. I have bought things there a couple times.

does dayo live in nyc now or am i confused

yeah thats a great bookstore, excellent mystery section

I'm just a fan xp

ah ok! like me

I'll probably be in nyc the first weeek of jan though

fap will obv be in order

Miss the NYU Posman store, much bigger, lot of remaindered and imported books on sale. Website says that they also have Chelsea Market and Rockefeller Center stores.

Yeah, I used to go to that Posman's on University (yes, it is Posman's, not Posner's); it was a really good bookstore.

Dayo I would be down for an early Jan fap btw. Keep me posted.

mos def! will email

so cuomo *did* sign the taxi bill in the end

say hello to green cabs in brookyln

niiice, i was just saying what a good idea that was

18,000 cabs so this is def gonna be 'a thing'. prob won't be hard at all to hail one if you live in brownstoney brooklyn or western queens, really anywhere near a major subway stop. outer borough cabs and a bikeshare program, old school new yorkers are gonna grumble but the city's making some pretty big strides in the next few years.

and shake shack in bk wut

I knowed about that for a long time, b/c my school was right there. I missed it though. W/E it would have been bad news during finals stress.

I think there's also a panera going in next door which is...uh, panera

so over shake shack, it's okay but c'mon

yeah it's not worth standing in long lines for

no food is worth waiting in an hour line for but be serious shake shack is super dope

and hey since there are so many now you dont have to wait!

i'd rather wait for the shake shack than for lucali

That's batshit

i'm not gonna wait an hour and a half to pay $26 for a plain pizza

don't knife me bro

I mean even if you tend to eat half a pizza yourself it's $13 a person -- not really very much for a top notch food experience. It's also really not a "plain pie" the way you mean it, but w/e, be a philistine.

also the wait isn't as bad if you show up a little before they open

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no food is worth waiting in an hour line for but be serious shake shack is super dope

― Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:52 (7 hours ago) Permalink

and hey since there are so many now you dont have to wait!

uws location is easier to negotiate that union square

man those krinkle kut fries are my favorite, best in town next to yr favorite bistro frites

i have never waiting an hour in line for shake shack, its "overrated" i guess but dollar-for-dollar probably the best burg in nyc

max goes in through the kitchen w/ 'and then he kissed me' playing in the background iirc

they even have Shake Shack at Saratoga racetrack now. shortest Shake Shack line I have ever stood in, surprisingly

Shake Shack lines may be pretty quick at Citi Field next year

I would maybe be more impressed by shake shack if I weren't from california but that place really just seems like a pretty good generic burger place to me? except for the concretes, those are good.