Carrie Kingsley
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A low-hanging fruit for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the new City Council in their first 100 days would be to approve legislation making outdoor dining year round and have it go into effect immediately. Given all the existing design regulations it should be easy to flip the switch on this.
Thousands of outdoor dining areas might not return to the city's roadways next spring, the result of what activists call a costly approval process created by the Adams administration when the program became seasonal.
Outdoor Dining Has Faded Out — And Not Just Because It's Winter - Streetsblog New York City
From thousands of pandemic-era eateries to perhaps just a few hundred, thanks to a seasonal, not year-round, program.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A low-hanging fruit for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the new City Council in their first 100 days would be to approve legislation making outdoor dining year round and have it go into effect immediately. Given all the existing design regulations it should be easy to flip the switch on this.
Unbelievably moving. Have a tissue close by.
“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4SkkDI
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Unbelievably moving. Have a tissue close by.
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"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus" might be the most astounding seven words any NYC mayoral candidate has ever spoken.
[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]
October 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus" might be the most astounding seven words any NYC mayoral candidate has ever spoken.
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Please permit me to remind you that just as the First Amendment protects Nazis, who would suppress our speech, it also protects the New York Times, which has sold out every American right and value for the mess of Park Slope potage that is false equivalency, false neutrality, and access.
This is a stunningly pathological lawsuit even by Trumpian standards. It reads as if he was holding a gun to the head of the child of the lawyer drafting it.
Donald Trump sues the New York Times (and Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, and Michael S. Schmidt) for defamation, and the complaint for some reason begins thus: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Please permit me to remind you that just as the First Amendment protects Nazis, who would suppress our speech, it also protects the New York Times, which has sold out every American right and value for the mess of Park Slope potage that is false equivalency, false neutrality, and access.
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
August 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
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Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”
Cities:
Cities:
August 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”
Cities:
Cities:
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The bad faith actors will dishonestly draw a through line connecting trans people to mass shootings but will skip right to over the fact that many of these mass shooters are racists, antisemites and misogynists because they harbor some of the same sentiments as the shooters.
August 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The bad faith actors will dishonestly draw a through line connecting trans people to mass shootings but will skip right to over the fact that many of these mass shooters are racists, antisemites and misogynists because they harbor some of the same sentiments as the shooters.
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There is nothing remarkable about this opinion. “I’m a conservative, and I only favor programs that benefit me“ is the oldest story in history.
August 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
There is nothing remarkable about this opinion. “I’m a conservative, and I only favor programs that benefit me“ is the oldest story in history.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Transformative work of the day, someone out there NEEDS this edition:
August 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Transformative work of the day, someone out there NEEDS this edition:
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I'm glad we can go back to hating on Adrienne Adams after having to pretend she wasn't bad. The city council torpedoing outdoor dining over a handful of loud complaints from car owners was such a damning mistake.
And I am begging restaurateurs to find someone better than Andrew Rigie to lobby.
And I am begging restaurateurs to find someone better than Andrew Rigie to lobby.
“Mr. Massoud [NYC restaurateur] said his financial difficulties stemmed from three things: business uncertainty, rising costs from tariffs and lost revenue from no longer offering outdoor dining.” All losses due to boneheaded, unnecessary choices by politicians
It’s not you; it’s not a personal flaw!!
New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...
New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...
August 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I'm glad we can go back to hating on Adrienne Adams after having to pretend she wasn't bad. The city council torpedoing outdoor dining over a handful of loud complaints from car owners was such a damning mistake.
And I am begging restaurateurs to find someone better than Andrew Rigie to lobby.
And I am begging restaurateurs to find someone better than Andrew Rigie to lobby.
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"New York, a dramatically safe big city, is still attached to the rest of the United States" seems to be the real story here.
Two targeted attacks by out-of-state murderers using weapons they brought with them from elsewhere. Lots of issues there, none of which are the general safety of midtown Manhattan.
July 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"New York, a dramatically safe big city, is still attached to the rest of the United States" seems to be the real story here.
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He drove from Las Vegas to New York with an AR-15, which cannot be purchased in New York.
This isn’t about New York.
This is about Republicans persistently blocking common sense gun safety reform, including an assault weapons ban, that a super majority of Americans support.
This isn’t about New York.
This is about Republicans persistently blocking common sense gun safety reform, including an assault weapons ban, that a super majority of Americans support.
July 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
He drove from Las Vegas to New York with an AR-15, which cannot be purchased in New York.
This isn’t about New York.
This is about Republicans persistently blocking common sense gun safety reform, including an assault weapons ban, that a super majority of Americans support.
This isn’t about New York.
This is about Republicans persistently blocking common sense gun safety reform, including an assault weapons ban, that a super majority of Americans support.
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Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.
July 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pivot to video was such a curse. Now everything’s like obviously you’d rather watch a 40 minute video than read a sentence.
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"...the risk of being murdered underground is... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the US. Cars are deadly, and any transportation policy that encourages their use over public transportation is pretty much by definition anti-safety."
New York City’s Subway Is Actually Safer Than Your Car
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has a point about assaults underground, but his policies aren’t improving anything.
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July 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"...the risk of being murdered underground is... orders of magnitude less than the risk of dying from a traffic accident elsewhere in the US. Cars are deadly, and any transportation policy that encourages their use over public transportation is pretty much by definition anti-safety."
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The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
July 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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"I don't like NYC enough to even live there if I can't be the mayor" is quite a stance from someone asking the people to make him the mayor.
July 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"I don't like NYC enough to even live there if I can't be the mayor" is quite a stance from someone asking the people to make him the mayor.
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Something not limited to Sean Duffy is how people will get into their cars and think nothing of the risk they face of death or injury, which is several orders of magnitude greater than your risk of being hurt on public transit. Driving a car is the most dangerous thing most people do each day.
Sean Duffy is having his daily pants-pissing session about public transit: "They force people into the subway, and the subway's not safe. If you're a liberal and you want people to ride the subway, make it safe. Take the crazy people out."
July 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Something not limited to Sean Duffy is how people will get into their cars and think nothing of the risk they face of death or injury, which is several orders of magnitude greater than your risk of being hurt on public transit. Driving a car is the most dangerous thing most people do each day.
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Suburbanites want to use the city for work and the city for play and want everyone who actually lives in the city to fully subsidize every element of their decision to live in the suburbs.
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these lawsuits prove to me that powerful suburbanites want to use the city for work and want the city dwellers to pay both the monetary and environmental cost of driving in constantly
July 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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“Slappin’ fannies and killin’ grannies” is a superb line re Cuomo. Also, it is amazing that Curtis Sliwa is real and not a TV character
Via @acyn.bsky.social on Xitter:
Sliwa: "Eric Adams is damaged goods… Andrew Cuomo is a creep. Slapping fannies and killing grannies... Everybody likes Curtis Sliwa"
My take: Mamdani should run this as a digital ad targeted to Republicans 😂 keep the opps fragmented!
Sliwa: "Eric Adams is damaged goods… Andrew Cuomo is a creep. Slapping fannies and killing grannies... Everybody likes Curtis Sliwa"
My take: Mamdani should run this as a digital ad targeted to Republicans 😂 keep the opps fragmented!
July 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“Slappin’ fannies and killin’ grannies” is a superb line re Cuomo. Also, it is amazing that Curtis Sliwa is real and not a TV character
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This grok stuff is so bad it’s impossible to tell fake from real, whcih may be intentional.
July 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This grok stuff is so bad it’s impossible to tell fake from real, whcih may be intentional.
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Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
July 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
SAME
Goddamn I hate that I have to hope that the shingles vaccine will still exist one year from now when they’ll let me do that.
June 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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