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Lou Cespedes
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Afro-Cuban writer 🇨🇺 🇺🇸 Building Pro, Urban Planner, Mentor, Proud Girl Dad. Host of VLX Podcast ✝️ and making a comeback! 🦋
WEST 4TH

Came here by accident today. Missed my stop. Hadn’t given myself the time to notice the transfer mezzanine. Extraordinary! What a wasted opportunity at this stop! @mta.info
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
OVER THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE

The view of the sunset is golden glow over New Jersey, creating indistinguishable black silhouettes of the Statue of Liberty and container shipping cranes on the horizon - because actually, they are indistinguishable.
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
THE R

Is the worsest train ever. Awful.
@mta.info
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
@mta.info
Everyday when you come down the steps to the QRWN train, if the train is already in the station, this is what you see inside and outside on the express. No train is identifiable.
October 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Lou Cespedes
"The days of MORAL VICTORIES must come to an end.

"The days of patting ourselves for TRYING have to be over.

"We must now enter into the days of VICTORY."

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, at @nywfp.bsky.social's event today celebrating mayoral primary wins in 5 different cities throughout NYS)
The New York Working Families Party has won executive races in Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo and New York City. Now, they’re working to keep the winning streak going.

Read more: http://specne.ws/6eNZ67
Working Families Party celebrates wins, looks to general election
Zohran Mamdani will face multiple candidates in November.
specne.ws
August 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
NOT SURE WHO

Might need to know this but…

Sydney Sweeney is NOT hot.

Just want to put it out there.
August 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
@mta.info

Make the freakin announcement on the B,D! WTF!
July 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Lou Cespedes
She's right.
The US has bombed our own Black population in Tulsa and Philadelphia and Oakland. We genocided the Philippines and Cambodia, experimented on Black people without consent, forcibly relocated entire Indigenous nations, installed and enabled Pinochet.

This is NOT new. It's NOT unique. It's who we are.
July 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
THE WORST

@mta.info

I’ve had bad experiences, but nothing at all comes close to the B61
Just - how could you fuck up this bad?
July 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
THE R IS THE FUCKING WORST
June 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
DANTE’S INFERNO
June 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
@1010wins.bsky.social

You guys really blew it with the traffic reporting yesterday on the marathon.

You guys really needed to let us know the day before on these events.
May 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
IT TAKES MORE TIME

To move about Brooklyn on @mta.info than it does to move between the 5 boroughs. Insane
May 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
WHAT A TRAFFIC SHIT SHOW

Today has been. Nothing works.
May 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Reposted by Lou Cespedes
So, NY State's Empire State Development *approached* Related Cos. to become designated developer for #AtlanticYards?
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/04/so-e...
Did Related pull out because the state wouldn't re-create 421-a tax break?
Other #PacificParkBK questions pending.
So, ESD *approached* Related to become designated developer for Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park? Did Related pull out because the state wouldn't re-create 421-a?
We don't why Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards, pulled out of a contemplated joint venture to develop the six railyard sites,...
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Reposted by Lou Cespedes
(Updated)
NY's Empire State Development says it has not approached additional entities to step into #AtlanticYards, including Related.
New permitted developer still needed.
ESD has communicated timelines and milestone expectations to relevant parties re advancing project & liquidated damages.
April 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/eco...
Interesting. If they swap out coal plants for sustainable sources, to take advantage of existing lines & infrastructure, I’m all for it.
If they keep all the old coal fired plants running, it will be a disaster
AI and other tech can wait. We won’t die without them
Big Tech’s soaring energy demands are making coal-fired power plant sites attractive
Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the suddenly strong demand for electricity to run Big Tech’s cloud computing and...
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
April 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Reposted by Lou Cespedes
MAGA need apply.
April 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Reposted by Lou Cespedes
Seventy. Five. Percent. This is what fascism looks like.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
WHEN WE WERE GIANTS!
Black Star forever. #hiphopsky
@talibkweli.bsky.social Before they were writing hip hop bars in crayon.
April 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Reposted by Lou Cespedes
With #AtlanticYards oversight meeting scheduled for March 19, a chance to ask about deadlines, ownership, and renegotiations of #PacificParkBK plans.
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2025/03/with...
Will there be any answers?
With Atlantic Yards oversight meeting scheduled for March 19, a chance to ask about deadlines, ownership, and renegotiations. Will there be any answers?
A meeting of the Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation (AY CDC)  will be held  at 3 pm on Wednesday, March 19 at the Manhattan of...
atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
THE R TRAIN TAKES THE “L”

Worse train ever
February 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Reposted by Lou Cespedes
Already decided USA is not the place to buy goods or services. It feeds the Trump fascist regime.
Agreed💯
Folks around the 🌍 Feb 28 is the blackout day for buying anything 🇺🇸.
Here is the post for 🇨🇦 please adapt it to fit your country👇🏿
February 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM