Daniel Trubman
@danieltrubman.bsky.social
Who wants to grab a beer and talk about land-use regulations and building codes?
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Its modern appearance is more historically accurate, but the Gothic Revival style cottage now used by the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum out on Staten Island looked WAY cooler with the open air colonnade memorial pavilion built on top of it to mark Garibaldi's 100th birthday.
January 6, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Its modern appearance is more historically accurate, but the Gothic Revival style cottage now used by the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum out on Staten Island looked WAY cooler with the open air colonnade memorial pavilion built on top of it to mark Garibaldi's 100th birthday.
"If we're going to keep unnecessary conductors on trains as make-work jobs, should we also still have elevator operators?" is a rhetorical question often brought up in the discussion on subway automation, but the union's answer is unironically yes.
And in 2023 a judge agreed!
And in 2023 a judge agreed!
January 6, 2026 at 2:03 AM
"If we're going to keep unnecessary conductors on trains as make-work jobs, should we also still have elevator operators?" is a rhetorical question often brought up in the discussion on subway automation, but the union's answer is unironically yes.
And in 2023 a judge agreed!
And in 2023 a judge agreed!
"Equity" in NYC means even the rich folks in wealthy neighborhoods like the Upper West Side have to squeeze between mountains of recycling and trash bags on their evening strolls.
January 6, 2026 at 12:53 AM
"Equity" in NYC means even the rich folks in wealthy neighborhoods like the Upper West Side have to squeeze between mountains of recycling and trash bags on their evening strolls.
It's funny how everyone understands it makes sense to store trash in the street (even if it takes up a parking space or two) when it comes to construction, but loses it when someone proposes doing the exact same thing for regular waste.
Status quo bias is a bitch, huh?
Status quo bias is a bitch, huh?
January 6, 2026 at 12:03 AM
It's funny how everyone understands it makes sense to store trash in the street (even if it takes up a parking space or two) when it comes to construction, but loses it when someone proposes doing the exact same thing for regular waste.
Status quo bias is a bitch, huh?
Status quo bias is a bitch, huh?
I get why NYC tore down most of the elevated trains in Manhattan, but from the right angle they really do look so amazing 😍
January 5, 2026 at 9:40 PM
I get why NYC tore down most of the elevated trains in Manhattan, but from the right angle they really do look so amazing 😍
The lack of interest in how transit works abroad (e.g. fare enforcement, pass structures, staffing policies) among many local professional transit advocates makes more sense when you recognize that a lot of them actually view themselves primarily as anti-poverty activists.
January 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM
The lack of interest in how transit works abroad (e.g. fare enforcement, pass structures, staffing policies) among many local professional transit advocates makes more sense when you recognize that a lot of them actually view themselves primarily as anti-poverty activists.
I don't think I've seen this level of parking in a crosswalk since the last time I strolled around South Philly.
We need better enforcement across all of NYC, but this crosswalk leads DIRECTLY to the Greenpoint Playground in Brooklyn. Young kids and parents with strollers deserve better.
We need better enforcement across all of NYC, but this crosswalk leads DIRECTLY to the Greenpoint Playground in Brooklyn. Young kids and parents with strollers deserve better.
January 5, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I don't think I've seen this level of parking in a crosswalk since the last time I strolled around South Philly.
We need better enforcement across all of NYC, but this crosswalk leads DIRECTLY to the Greenpoint Playground in Brooklyn. Young kids and parents with strollers deserve better.
We need better enforcement across all of NYC, but this crosswalk leads DIRECTLY to the Greenpoint Playground in Brooklyn. Young kids and parents with strollers deserve better.
There are way fewer store signs today in Manhattan compared to the streetcape photos Bernice Abbott took in the 1930s for a WPA project.
But there are A LOT more street trees nowadays. And in this case a decent bike lane!
Jefferson Market Court/Library and 6th Ave
1938➡️2026
But there are A LOT more street trees nowadays. And in this case a decent bike lane!
Jefferson Market Court/Library and 6th Ave
1938➡️2026
January 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
There are way fewer store signs today in Manhattan compared to the streetcape photos Bernice Abbott took in the 1930s for a WPA project.
But there are A LOT more street trees nowadays. And in this case a decent bike lane!
Jefferson Market Court/Library and 6th Ave
1938➡️2026
But there are A LOT more street trees nowadays. And in this case a decent bike lane!
Jefferson Market Court/Library and 6th Ave
1938➡️2026
Seems pretty obvious to me bike lanes makes parenting young kids in the city way easier.
And more fun!
But it can't just be some paint squeezed between traffic and parked cars. If you wouldn't let your toddler scooter in the bike lane it doesn't count.
And more fun!
But it can't just be some paint squeezed between traffic and parked cars. If you wouldn't let your toddler scooter in the bike lane it doesn't count.
January 5, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Seems pretty obvious to me bike lanes makes parenting young kids in the city way easier.
And more fun!
But it can't just be some paint squeezed between traffic and parked cars. If you wouldn't let your toddler scooter in the bike lane it doesn't count.
And more fun!
But it can't just be some paint squeezed between traffic and parked cars. If you wouldn't let your toddler scooter in the bike lane it doesn't count.
One way Queens is just straight up better than Manhattan is how quiet the riverfront parks are.
In Manhattan all of the waterfront parks are pretty much immediately adjacent to highways and all the noise they produce.
But the Hunter's Point South Park Extension was so tranquil.
In Manhattan all of the waterfront parks are pretty much immediately adjacent to highways and all the noise they produce.
But the Hunter's Point South Park Extension was so tranquil.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
One way Queens is just straight up better than Manhattan is how quiet the riverfront parks are.
In Manhattan all of the waterfront parks are pretty much immediately adjacent to highways and all the noise they produce.
But the Hunter's Point South Park Extension was so tranquil.
In Manhattan all of the waterfront parks are pretty much immediately adjacent to highways and all the noise they produce.
But the Hunter's Point South Park Extension was so tranquil.
Congestion Pricing:
How it started vs How it's going
How it started vs How it's going
January 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Congestion Pricing:
How it started vs How it's going
How it started vs How it's going
America's legacy cities like NYC don't have to become museum pieces. We can still have dynamic, growing neighborhoods IF we maintain the political will to say yes to growth and abundance.
Long Island City, Queens
2014➡️2026
Long Island City, Queens
2014➡️2026
January 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
America's legacy cities like NYC don't have to become museum pieces. We can still have dynamic, growing neighborhoods IF we maintain the political will to say yes to growth and abundance.
Long Island City, Queens
2014➡️2026
Long Island City, Queens
2014➡️2026
I hope Mayor Mamdani's Land Inventory Fast Track Task Force will seriously reconsider repurposing some of the less robust publicly owned community gardens for social housing.
It's one thing if the property is accessible to the public and well maintained, but some are eyesores.
It's one thing if the property is accessible to the public and well maintained, but some are eyesores.
January 4, 2026 at 10:32 PM
I hope Mayor Mamdani's Land Inventory Fast Track Task Force will seriously reconsider repurposing some of the less robust publicly owned community gardens for social housing.
It's one thing if the property is accessible to the public and well maintained, but some are eyesores.
It's one thing if the property is accessible to the public and well maintained, but some are eyesores.
The lack of actual protected infrastructure and any sort of enforcement often defeats the nominal bus lanes in New York, frequently forcing the buses into the mixed-traffic lanes anyway.
No wonder the MTA struggles to maintain decent and even headways on these routes!
No wonder the MTA struggles to maintain decent and even headways on these routes!
January 4, 2026 at 9:20 PM
The lack of actual protected infrastructure and any sort of enforcement often defeats the nominal bus lanes in New York, frequently forcing the buses into the mixed-traffic lanes anyway.
No wonder the MTA struggles to maintain decent and even headways on these routes!
No wonder the MTA struggles to maintain decent and even headways on these routes!
Everyone knows the view of the Manhattan skyline from Long Island City in Queens is one of the coolest in the world, but the vista of the Greenpoint skyscrapers in Brooklyn across the Newtown Creek from the Hunter's Point South Park Extension is also pretty neat.
January 4, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Everyone knows the view of the Manhattan skyline from Long Island City in Queens is one of the coolest in the world, but the vista of the Greenpoint skyscrapers in Brooklyn across the Newtown Creek from the Hunter's Point South Park Extension is also pretty neat.
NYC literally spent decades watching its transit infrastructure rot because politicians were too terrified to touch the nickel fare. Seeing @ridersalliance.org repeat those same mistakes for a 10 cent increase is just disappointing.
How about fighting for a lower pass multiple??
How about fighting for a lower pass multiple??
January 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
NYC literally spent decades watching its transit infrastructure rot because politicians were too terrified to touch the nickel fare. Seeing @ridersalliance.org repeat those same mistakes for a 10 cent increase is just disappointing.
How about fighting for a lower pass multiple??
How about fighting for a lower pass multiple??
So many haters of Billionaires' Row south of Central Park are convinced the residential towers replaced a neighborhood of affordable housing, when in reality the corridor was a bunch of gimmick chain restaurants more appropriate in a Sun Belt exurb (and eventually Times Square).
January 4, 2026 at 1:57 PM
So many haters of Billionaires' Row south of Central Park are convinced the residential towers replaced a neighborhood of affordable housing, when in reality the corridor was a bunch of gimmick chain restaurants more appropriate in a Sun Belt exurb (and eventually Times Square).
Getting ready to "mind your business" on the subway in the year 2030 as half the passengers blast TikToks and the other half vape.
January 4, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Getting ready to "mind your business" on the subway in the year 2030 as half the passengers blast TikToks and the other half vape.
I'm not sure how decent the ferries are for transit, but I understand subsidizing them as an economic development tool because watching them travel up and down the East River is one of the coolest things you can do in New York City.
January 4, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I'm not sure how decent the ferries are for transit, but I understand subsidizing them as an economic development tool because watching them travel up and down the East River is one of the coolest things you can do in New York City.
So many of the bike lanes in NYC seem to run along heavy arterial roads, which seem really uncomfortable and scary.
But not so bad when cyclists are actually very protected, like here on the Pulaski Bridge connecting Long Island City in Queens and Greenpoint in Brooklyn.
But not so bad when cyclists are actually very protected, like here on the Pulaski Bridge connecting Long Island City in Queens and Greenpoint in Brooklyn.
January 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM
So many of the bike lanes in NYC seem to run along heavy arterial roads, which seem really uncomfortable and scary.
But not so bad when cyclists are actually very protected, like here on the Pulaski Bridge connecting Long Island City in Queens and Greenpoint in Brooklyn.
But not so bad when cyclists are actually very protected, like here on the Pulaski Bridge connecting Long Island City in Queens and Greenpoint in Brooklyn.
Just took a G train without a conductor and of course it was fine.
Thank God @governor.ny.gov vetoed the mandatory overstaffing bill because it would've made the mediocre headways worse for no benefit to riders.
Thank God @governor.ny.gov vetoed the mandatory overstaffing bill because it would've made the mediocre headways worse for no benefit to riders.
January 3, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Just took a G train without a conductor and of course it was fine.
Thank God @governor.ny.gov vetoed the mandatory overstaffing bill because it would've made the mediocre headways worse for no benefit to riders.
Thank God @governor.ny.gov vetoed the mandatory overstaffing bill because it would've made the mediocre headways worse for no benefit to riders.
There really is an implicit threat of violence that allows one person in a subway car to subjugate dozens of fellow riders to the loud noise from their phones.
That's why it's not just an annoyance but a form of public disorder normal folks are understandably uncomfortable with.
That's why it's not just an annoyance but a form of public disorder normal folks are understandably uncomfortable with.
January 3, 2026 at 7:18 PM
There really is an implicit threat of violence that allows one person in a subway car to subjugate dozens of fellow riders to the loud noise from their phones.
That's why it's not just an annoyance but a form of public disorder normal folks are understandably uncomfortable with.
That's why it's not just an annoyance but a form of public disorder normal folks are understandably uncomfortable with.
It always seems so unnatural to me to see 2 story buildings so close to multiple subway stations in Lower Manhattan, but this Japanese place and apartment at 231 E 9th Street in the East Village used to be a car repair shop, so still better than it used to be!
~1940➡️2026
~1940➡️2026
January 3, 2026 at 5:57 PM
It always seems so unnatural to me to see 2 story buildings so close to multiple subway stations in Lower Manhattan, but this Japanese place and apartment at 231 E 9th Street in the East Village used to be a car repair shop, so still better than it used to be!
~1940➡️2026
~1940➡️2026
"We won't force the homeless to go into shelters when it's extremely cold BUT we will let them smoke on subway platforms" doesn't seem like a recipe for sustainable social democracy in our cities.
January 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
"We won't force the homeless to go into shelters when it's extremely cold BUT we will let them smoke on subway platforms" doesn't seem like a recipe for sustainable social democracy in our cities.
I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching trains cross over NYC's many cool bridges, like the Park Avenue Bridge over the Harlem River here.
January 3, 2026 at 4:34 AM
I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching trains cross over NYC's many cool bridges, like the Park Avenue Bridge over the Harlem River here.