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Reporter, @streetsblognyc . Second-best-dressed man in the NYC press corps. “the only ultra-rare, colorful vagrant this city needs” - @nyccoib

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@DaveCoIon
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Give up on New York City journalism my ass (I will not give up on New York City journalism)
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Yes
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Arrest these kids for electioneering inside a polling place
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Courtney Gross
2 years
. @danielsgoldman casting his ballot early today. Four of his five kids are here with shirts that say, “Vote for my daddy”
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A bodega in Fort Greene has taken a stand
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Good morning, cops are blaming a 10-year-old standing on the sidewalk for getting hit by an SUV
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@DaveCoIon
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4 years
They kicked me out of the New York state Senate chamber because I was wearing hi-tops
@SenPolehanki
Senator Dayna Polehanki
4 years
Directly above me, men with rifles yelling at us. Some of my colleagues who own bullet proof vests are wearing them. I have never appreciated our Sergeants-at-Arms more than today. #mileg
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4 years
90 percent of jaywalking tickets given out last year were given to black and brown New Yorkers. Very normal stuff
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According to my notes, New York City is the first place in the world to have an earthquake
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History in one bad photo: The MTA Board has voted 11-1 to approve a $15 congestion pricing toll to drive into lower Manhattan
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3 years
A woman on the LIRR pulled out a damn cat
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3 years
An incredible thing about the last four years, unless I'm mistaken, is that this hero was never actually identified
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4 years
Pretty fucked up how automakers just make larger and larger luxury pickup trucks that get increasingly deadly for pedestrians, and we're not talking about whether they "belong on city streets"
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@ahoysamantha Have you considered becoming a snail with many followers on social media
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3 years
Game stop? Seems more like the games have just started
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@DaveCoIon
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There I was, speeding along in a city in total darkness at a pace where my odds of killing a pedestrian greatly increase, when I was rudely given a very cheap ticket
@AoDespair
David Simon
9 months
What sort of off-brand city sends me a $50 camera ticket for speeding in a school zone for racing at 36 mph in a 25 zone at -- wait for it -- 5:40 a.m. in total darkness on a morning in -- wait for it -- mid-July? Two-word clue: Yankees Suck.
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2 years
Yeah who's gonna stick up for this husband and wife driving into lower Manhattan to drink a couple bottles of wine and then weave back home on the FDR
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In New York City, the greatest city in the world, we are proud to have experienced the first “earthquake” in human history. This moment shows that New York is, as always, the center of the political and media universe
@emma_a_whitford
Emma Whitford
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just sitting here waiting for the deluge of Official Earthquake Statements
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@DaveCoIon
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11 months
Incredible that this 20-year-old kid offered to tell the NYPD all about the illegal temp tag delivery operating he fell into, but the police were so disinterested it fell to @Jesse_Coburn to unravel it
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10 months
Weird that this car with Virginia plates has 14 moving violations in the city in 2023 alone. This person must drive up here for work a lot
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Liam Quigley
10 months
Two young children were just put in an ambulance on East 60th street where a car somehow ended up smashing through a cafe window.
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New Yorkers have come together in this time of crisis to tell people from the West Coast to shut the fuck up about how they "deal with this all the time and none of you care" and I think that's beautiful
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The aftershock means we have reset the clock for New York City earthquake tweets back to zero. We apologize to no one if you hate this shit
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2 years
Please do not almost run your car into me when I have the light and I’m in the crosswalk l, and then wave me on as if you’re doing me a favor
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2 years
Mayor Adams showed up at a rally for the Flatbush bus lane and was immediately bird dogged by an activist demanding he restore school budget cuts
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6 years
The three genders
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2 years
When the NYPD said that a cyclist fell under a truck's wheels and got killed today, they were just repeating what the truck driver said, while leaving out that he overtook her on a narrow street
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3 years
Today in New York we had a high-ranking NYPD official scream at people to not leave their homes during New Year's Eve and then a few hours later the governor said he's going to a Bills playoff game with 6699 other people
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3 years
Can't wait to be killed by the driver of this car and then have someone ask if I was wearing a helmet
@IntEngineering
Interesting Engineering
3 years
Check out how the smart screen inside the Sony Vision-S looks like in this video taken during a test drive. 📺 Find more at 🎥 fujiwarahiroshi / Instagram #engineering
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2 years
This story is very funny because it's like "Europeans are coming here enjoying themselves. Suburban New Yorkers have convinced themselves that the city is The Warriors 2 and will not cross the Nassau or Westchester border"
@rachelholliday
Rachel Holliday Smith is mostly posting elsewhere
2 years
remarkable: -Times Square is seeing an average of 300,000 visitors a day, not far from the 365,000 people a day it averaged in 2019. -Hotel occupancy for the week of June 25 hit 87% of pre-pandemic levels, the highest of any major market in the country.
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4 years
$100K income or more leads the pack in strongly approving protests about going back to work. Huh!
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4 years
Just paint a bunch of bus lanes jesus christ
@mashable
Mashable
4 years
If this is the future of public transportation, we are so on board
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The one thing to remember about "The mayor is going to install metal detectors on the subway" is the mayor doesn't run the subway
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4 years
I need a lobotomy
@chrisdonato04
Christopher Donato
4 years
Spotted in NYC
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Good Idea Dave
4 years
Tweeted at New York to go home at 8:30. My man is late to his own curfew
@NYCMayor
Mayor Eric Adams
4 years
It’s time to go home now, New Yorkers. Help us keep this city safe tonight.
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Hey don't forget, the working poor are the ones who are gonna eat the most shit if we switch to a nights/weekends L train repair
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Eyewitnesses News out of the fucking bike lane
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In just about an hour, New York City will be the first place on Earth experience what scientists are calling “a solar eclipse”
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2 years
Getting screamed at by my phone about the confirmed suspect in the subway shooting, like I’m not some Twitter addict who didn’t know the news 40 minutes ago
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3 years
This story is funny because someone from Long Island says, seemingly exasperatedly, "it's easier to take the LIRR and the subway instead of driving to the city." Yes! It is! It always has been!
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“On hot days with poor air quality, there’s never any suggestion that New Yorkers limit their driving to make life easier for their neighbors, even when…the air quality is poor enough that people should limit physical exertion.”
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4 years
Adam Driver would be hotter if his name was Adam Cyclist
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3 years
Cops gonna riot tonight
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@DaveCoIon
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5 years
I want to thank this police spokesperson for giving a very stark reminder of the political choice ahead of us, and the failures of city leadership. We could have a world with fewer cars, or we could have a world where you’re never safe from cars, ever
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5 years
Live from New York, it’s the anti-Amazon subsidy rally
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"Congestion pricing is a regressive tax" sure sure yeah
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TIRED: Closing stretches of streets for even a few hours so children can live to see another Halloween WIRED: Tweeting "Pretty please do not rip a left turn at 25 miles per hour while you're on your phone"
@NYC_DOT
NYC DOT
3 years
Look closely for little superheros, ghosts and other trick-or-treaters this weekend 👻🧟🧚🦖, especially during #DuskAndDarkness ! #SlowDown to make it a safe and happy Halloween! #VisionZero
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7 months
People are asking things like “Where is the mayor as the city sinks underwater?” when the answer is that a little piece of the mayor lives in each of our hearts
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“If you know New York, you know two wheels are always faster than four.” Bike lobby has successfully captured the New York Mets
@Mets
New York Mets
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IYKNYYK: If you know New York, you know. 🔗👉
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2 years
So the police narrative for a fatal crash today was a woman "came into contact" with an SUV. That "contact" was the SUV driver whipping around a corner and hitting her in the crosswalk after making an illegal U-turn
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5 years
Good reminder that New York has a right-wing paper and a pro-business centrist paper and no left-wing paper
@NYDailyNews
New York Daily News
5 years
DAILY NEWS SAYS: Shame on New York's progressives for chasing Amazon away An early look at Friday's front page...
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4 years
You’re telling me people flew or drove here from California in order to riot in New York instead of at their own protests at home?
@morenabasteiro
Morena Basteiro
4 years
An emotional ⁦ @NYPDChiefofDept ⁩ tells ⁦ @JoshEiniger7 ⁩ that it’s time to get the agitators “out of here” - “from California, from all over this country, who are being paid to take this movement, which is a good movement, and turn it into violence.” ⁦ @ABC7NY
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Good Idea Dave
9 months
Nice, who did you sell Citi Bike to
@lyft
Lyft
9 months
my job is just...car
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@DaveCoIon
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7 years
Thank you to everyone DMing me. I am going to get very drunk. Please be aware that a craven piece of shit billionaire killed journalism
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We should get another three-day weekend next weekend because of this weather
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3 years
Still can't believe the police union tweeted "How would you like it if our officers wrote tickets to people parked illegally" like it was some kind of threat
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“Sorry I missed your Zoom forum, I was watching Sonic the Hedgehog” vaults to the top of 2021 campaign moments
@ReynosoBrooklyn
Antonio Reynoso
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Today I missed a meeting w @PersistBrooklyn ! I started watching Sonic the Hedgehog with my son and lost track of time. This campaign cycle has been tough on everyone in my family, & I feel horrible for missing the meeting. My juggling is suspect but hope they let me make it up!
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The thing about the (Sorry, Cyclists) headline is it was also written after someone was killed in the unprotected bike lane
@BikeSouthBklyn
Bike South Brooklyn!
3 years
How it started How it’s going
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You can't even run a dockless scooter share pilot in Manhattan, but if you want to drive a 6'9" luxury pickup truck that costs $70,000 through the cramped Financial District streets, the city says "Go ahead"
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Here’s a story where Lis Smith is identified as an IDC spokesperson
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The Oculus might have cost $11 trillion but it also brought us this video, so it’s tough to say if it was worth it or not
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The owner of Joe’s Pizza said the Busway would ruin his business by eliminating customers who came via car. This week I found a bustling slice joint and not a single customer who drove or took a taxi there
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Remember: You have a legal right to refuse a bag check and go to another subway station : )
@JonCampbellNY
Jon Campbell
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NEW: Gov. Hochul says she's deploying "nearly 1,000" members of the NYS Police, MTA Police and National Guard to help with bag checks in the NYC subway system.
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Eric Adams, who came into office saying things like “The city is so boring, we need to bring life back to it” is calling a subway busker proof that the subway is dangerous underground labyrinth
@TweetBenMax
Ben Max
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"we have a subway system that is out of control," Mayor Adams says when asked about NYPD arrest of station performer; says guy refused to move or abide by rules & repeated warnings from officers
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4 years
This police officer patronizingly telling a delivery worker to calm down while police arrest him because they don’t know the law is what everyone knew would happen with this curfew, and it is entirely Bill de Blasio’s fault
@KirstiKarttunen
Kirsti Karttunen
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This delivery guy thought he’s an essential worker, police seemed to disagree. The rules issued before the curfew very unclear but according to the state, restaurants, bar & food industry workers are classified as essential. #nycurfew #NYCPolice
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2 years
These are not e-bikes
@NYPDnews
NYPD NEWS
2 years
So far this year, E-bikes operators have been involved in 1,628 collisions, with 19 fatalities. To address the use of illegal E-bikes, officers from the @NYPD25Pct & @NYPD30Pct , along with @NYPDTransport , conducted a business inspection and removed 31 illegal E-bikes & scooters.
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The kids at Brooklyn Borough Hall today: pro-bike lanes, pro-large jeans
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4 years
GET OUTTA THE BUS LANE
@KalhanR
Kalhan
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Oh .... my ..... god .....
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11 months
Streetsblog does not have a foreign spy bureau or a multibillion dollar budget or guns or even a pension, yet a single guy who works here is unraveling the entire issue of fake paper plates while the cops and multiple state legislatures sit around drooling and mumbling excuses
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2 years
The mayor having to “explain” why he doesn’t get driven around everywhere is a piece of why it’s difficult to cut down on car usage even in New York City
@JeffCMays
Jeff Mays
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“You can’t be a good shepherd if you are not among the sheep,” @NYCMayor says in explaining why he will be riding the subway and taking Citibike to get around the city.
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Good Idea Dave
4 years
We all witnessed, or saw pictures of, police not wearing masks all weekend
@MaraGay
Mara Gay
4 years
“You’ve made your point. It’s time to stay home,” Mayor de Blasio, who says he fears protests will bring resurgence of coronavirus.
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3 years
Your members rioted and called him and other Black lawmakers the n-word
@NYCPBA
NYC PBA
3 years
Mayor Dinkins' "Safe Streets, Safe City" was the beginning of NYC's renaissance. His bold plan succeded because he worked with - not against - @nycpba , Albany & the City Council. Together, we started to reclaim our streets from violence & chaos. 1/2
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5 years
I have a serious proposal and that is to strip the driver's licenses from people who serve on the MTA Board
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I’m the only one brave enough to say it
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4 years
This morning the mayor said the police don’t do anything unless he’s okay with it, so tonight is the night the mayor is okay with police using force against a peaceful protest
@ZachReports
Zach Williams
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The moment NYPD struck against peaceful protesters in downtown Brooklyn
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I’m at the mayor’s house, where advocates are painting a bus lane in order to bully the mayor into 30 miles of bus lanes and busways this year
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Good Idea Dave
5 years
It's normal for a reporter to know so many wealthy people you can report anecdotally about how they're trying to do tax avoidance
@gracerauh
Grace Rauh
5 years
. @SRuhle tells de Blasio that every rich person she knows in New York is trying to figure out how they can move their address to avoid paying taxes.
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4 years
Nature is healing
@bagatelleno12
Hayley Richardson
4 years
Canal Street is once again an unlivable hellscape, great job everyone!!!!
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5 years
“Get some exercise,” the mayor tells middle-aged immigrant food workers who are working 12 hour days bringing you your Seamless orders
@vinbarone
Vincent Barone
5 years
Mayor de Blasio isn’t personally interested in riding e-bikes or e-scooters: “If you’re going to move around, why are you not getting some exercise?” (Not that he’s ever actually seen on a regular old bicycle, besides last summer’s dockless event.)
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NYPD’s gonna riot tonight
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New York should take seriously its expulsion from the Union and just do congestion pricing
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11 months
Sometimes at public meetings on bike lanes you hear something like "Well how many pedestrians have been hit by bikes?" and the answer, through today, is 88 injuries compiled by the NYPD. There have been 3,113 pedestrians injured by cars and trucks
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3 years
To reiterate, Andrew Cuomo, founder of the Women’s Equality Party, believes that women should come forward with their stories of sexual misconduct by powerful men. But we should also question their motives when they do so
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This @ByYourLogic tweet basically came true, because the 2016 election is full of terrible anti-miracles
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26 cyclist have died on city streets this year, the most ever in the Vision Zero era Eric Adams: “You are able to ride your little bike safely through our city”
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Walked into the bodega and asked if they sold butter. “Sorry, no,” but then a pause, “Hey isn’t that guy over there the subject of a citywide manhunt?” Love you, New York City.
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3 years
The Brooklyn Bridge bike lane is real
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4 years
No joke, this is me telling the mayor my dad got hit by a car as he rode his bike into Queens (he’s mostly okay)
@Julcuba
Julianne Cuba
4 years
Bike boys probably yelling about bikes
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4 years
All it took for the mayor to lift the curfew was a week of revolt against it, widespread police violence, a staff revolt, condemnation from Swamp Thing, publicized arrests of essential workers, Mr. Met going antifa and it basically being over anyway
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4 years
This is a good story because it provides a window into police thinking, and that thinking goes "None of us have ever done anything wrong outside of Derek Chauvin"
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2 years
They need to put a Citi Bike dock in the middle of the Williamsburg Bridge, for people who suddenly realize they’re stuck walking a whole bridge
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2 years
Can we do ANYTHING in this city without someone saying "What if a homeless person sees it though"
@emilyngo
Emily Ngo
2 years
“I don’t think the homeless can get in for a house, because there are locks,” @galeabrewer says of new containerized trash bins
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4 years
“Out-of-state plates” doesn’t mean anything in a city where people don’t register their cars locally in order to save on insurance
@MylesMill
Myles Miller
4 years
The looting in SoHo Is quite an elaborate scheme. it’s a complicated web of cars with out-of-state plates, the use of @Revel scooters, @CitiBikeNYC ’s and @Uber ’s to get away. But most that i’ve observed have been waking away with the goods in hand past cops.
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Here she is, a new rendering of the Brooklyn Bridge roadbed bike lane
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This is a bar, a place where people go get drunk, complaining about car restrictions
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Saw these pizza boxes this weekend that urge people to get COVID tests but also still have the toppings section on the side
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We’ve got a tiny snowplow clearing off the Flatbush Avenue bike lane just as I came to see how it looked
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3 years
It’s comforting to know that New York City is under the watchful protection of the NYPD, whose leadership faced zero consequences for spewing conspiracy theories about protesters this summer
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2 years
Eric Adams is simply addicted to having people park in public parks
@ClaytonGuse
Clayton Guse
2 years
The entire western edge of City Hall has turned into a parking lot for unmarked NYPD cars. Some would occasionally park here under de Blasio, but not this many.
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