as someone who commutes through there I’m annoyed by it

not buying anything, only go thru GC when visiting fam in CT.

i own no apple products and almost never go to grand central

i’m sure it’s less garish than a wal-mart in the same space would be tho

I just noticed the Apple store sunken into the plaza near FAO Schwarz on 59th Street. Feels evil.

Oh I’ve been to that one, it’s like an underground lair.

Jobs’ frozen body in the sub-basement

you just noticed that morbs?? it’s like one of the biggest tourist traps in the city at this point.

virginia plain texted me about mona’s tonight but has not given a time, who’s going?

Everyone. 6–7pm start time.

Oh yeah, sorry, thread—I declined to stage-manage this one so I haven’t really been paying attention but there is a fap tonight!

okay I might be a little 7:30–8ish

I had 4 hrs sleep and have 20–30 films to watch at home, so I no go.

and who is Pyth, goldurnit?

laurel

Yeeup.

hi new york!!

I’m glad they took photos now because it will never, ever be that uncrowded again.

Totally confused how the powers that be are allowing a store with millions of visitors a year in the middle of a commuting hub that millions of people a year pass through. ???

I feel like the failure of the apple store in grand central is gonna be one of the first examples of apple’s overreaching hubris that could not be controlled once the helmsman died

cool that i got invited to the fap

You did! On this thread. Anyway, we’ll all see you on Sat.

‘car guy’ cuomo back to work

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2011/12/09/after-taking-320-million-in-transit-funds-cuomo-strips-lockbox-bil-as-well/

vetoing outer borough taxi bill too. what a guy.

wtffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/nyregion/woman-burned-alive-in-brooklyn-elevator-police-question-man.html?hp

this...

Why on earth did I click on a thread I’d never clicked on before? I am depressed as hell now.

security camera stills of the guy will haunt my dreams http://www.nypost.com/r/nypost/2011/12/18/news/web_photos/fire--525x300.jpg

man

this plus the woman getting chopped in half by an elevator = taking the stairs this week

that happened around the corner from me, the woman getting burned to death

yeah I was wondering, was it apparent something was going on w/ police and fire?

http://www.nypost.com/r/nypost/2011/12/18/news/web_photos/fire--525x300.jpg

c u guize at halloween next year

JFC why did I

- stare at the picture

- read the times’s detailed account of the death

- read the explanation of why fire is the worst way to die

- read the comments

- all of the above

Incidentally people really need to be disabused of the notion that there are all these murderers getting off because of their harsh past and upbringing. Does not happen. Even “insanity” defenses are not only rare and hard to prove, but lead to more-or-less the same result — lifetime involuntary commitment instead of imprisonment.

stfu I lite u on fire inside elevator

it seems pretty clear he’s insane and yes I would be fine w/ him getting lifetime involuntary commitment

iatee: “I would fine him”

iatee: “he needs hugs”

Legal insanity is much narrower though. I’d have to look up the exact version NY follows, but it basically has to reach the level of not being able to comprehend either the act you are undertaking or the fact that it is wrong. I don’t think this guy fits into that category.

huh why do I have a soft on crime rep, I think all people who own cars should be jailed

so wrong its right

i.e you don’t get the insanity defense just for “he needed meds” “he was unstable” “he was a fucked up dude” etc.

iatee: “why do i have a soft-on”

loool

haha

btw where does one go in NYC to get someone to perform “odd jobs” who will not set you aflame?

its a package deal so sry

i wasnt in the hood most of saturday so i didnt notice any serious ambulances or anything

heh i have been checking craigslist for a new apt and the day after the woman died a v. sketchy “one bedroom on underhill” ad was posted

btw where does one go in NYC to get someone to perform “odd jobs” who will not set you aflame?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, December 19, 2011 5:14 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

Dude only had one negative review on Angie’s list, but it was as REALLY negative review

was the apt a good price?

1800 which is a little much for that end of prospect heights, but no brokers fee. i dont know the sq ft.

the elevator-chopped-in-half building is a block from my work and the elevator-set-on-fire building is four blocks from my apartment

so yeah, elevators are not seeming like the place to be

walking up stairs is healthy

$1800 for a 1BR in the less nice part of Prospect Heights? At first that sounded insane, but then I saw that it was an elevator building

fire sale prices

live-in handyman, will clear your clutter for extra $

hahaha

landlord provides exterminators

just gonna link to this again

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten

I am taking the stairs forever now btw

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

ya but the 6 months were very close to lga I got time to study it

newark is the most underrated of all airports

max is from nj btw everyone

lol I’ve flown into newark probably the most times

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

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”

that too

newark is the most underrated of all airports

definitely closer if you live or are staying in manhattan

yeah but you have to deal w/ the shame factor of having landed in jersey

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.

meant to say west side of manhattan—LGA is closer to east side

none of the bus lines is gonna be worth it from lga

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.

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

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

guess like a bakeware store, prolly not any of the restaurant supply stores around the bowery

I am in CHINATOWN!

I AM CHINA

no I am

hey now

I had dumplings fyi

i think you mean DUMPLINGS!

the friend i stayed with earlier in the month lives in little italy/chinatown—i had to restrain myself from eating DUMPLINGS! every day—of course, there are a lot of other foods too eat in nyc, so...

boarding a redeye to nyc in a few hours

Think a caught a bug on the plane, as I’ve pretty much been sick as hell for the week (but did store up enough energy to make it to the Bush Tetras show on Wed).

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

Sur La Table?

sorry iatee, by the time I got out of ICP it was 7:30 and I didn’t see a payphone.

L4urel expressed interest in FAPping on the 1st?

ya no worries I just woulda said ‘nobody likes us’. that’s uh, Sunday? sure.

it’s good luck to be hungover on NYE right

its no problem, i mean assuming you have all yr cocaine ready to go

oh ok

guys NYC is so pleasant

do u mean Boerum Hill?

I think so?

K, dudes...leaving in a sec to bike to Gowanus. gbx, holler by txt if you’re going out soon to that neighboring neighborhood cos my show might be too full to get into right away and I can easily meet you.

rewatched The Tree of Life, went to bed. Gonna write a couple checks now.