Dolan's Knicks

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Watercolor rendering of the Long Island City waterfront post-rezoning

NEW: The OneLIC plan has been approved by the @Council.nyc.gov Zoning Committee!!!

This will bring over 14,000 new homes — including over 4,000 permanently affordable — to a transit-accessible area of Long Island City. This is NYC's largest neighborhood rezoning in decades.

1000% true.

A car (Mazda 3 hatch) + fuel + insurance was easily $500-$600/m in Austin. I can get anywhere in New York City, 24/7, for $130/m.

Tokyo got closed last year, Istanbul was quietly closed/consolidated into London around the time of the Ukraine invasion. (And that’s a fraction of the footprint from the 90s, which was already a lot smaller than the 80s). Forty years of cuts and now almost a complete wipeout.

I think that leaves CBS with just London and Rome

Paramount Layoffs Hit CBS News: Streaming Shows Canceled, Saturday Morning Show to Be Overhauled The news division is also closing its bureau in South Africa, as every corner felt the impact of the larger Paramount cuts.

“And CBS News will close its Johannesburg, South Africa bureau, with the London bureau adding oversight of the region.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/c...

British Museum

Russian baddies grab someone's family member, but then we get a double cross by the robbers that wins back their freedom and topples Putin? A top Putin aide?

'Gone in 60 Seconds' but it's one European institution heisted per month as part of an elaborate scheme to undermine confidence in continental leadership. Just need a MacGuffin and this puppy writes itself.

Grade sep for the West Philly trolleys feels like one of those no-brainers if the money could ever get figured out.

Polling shows why Cuomo is putting so much effort into chipping away at the Sliwa block. Question is if he offsets that by pushing the undecided vote toward Mamdani.

Basically says it all about Metrorail's ridership

I've always been fascinated by the lack of a subway expansion plan to either the west side of Center City, West Philly or South Philly

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Absolutely ridiculous (and Plano's been trying to pull a stunt like this for about 20 years)

Janno Lieber saying: "Too much Nolan Hicks."

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Another really lovely corner of the city!

I need 10,000 words on how Jersey-domiciled Fox News hosts somehow all arrive at this world view. Step outside of 1211 for like 30 minutes, walk to Central Park, get a pretzel! Be normal! Please! I beg you!

The person conducting this interview comes from a country where they call Speedos 'Budgie Smugglers', which should present a real rock-glass house conundrum for all involved.

lol, lmao even

Cuomo Blasts Mamdani for His Rent-Stabilized Unit. But He Had One, Too.

"Cuomo Blasts Mamdani for His Rent-Stabilized Unit. But He Had One, Too: Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo lived in what he once described as “a dump, just one long hallway.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...

Also, the Council needs to pick a lane: Either they are an essential part of the review process and should have the power to individually vet and nix each project regardless of that effect on New York's housing crisis; OR, they're an inconsequential part of the system and the mayor is a meanie.

Update from Mihir Zaveri

*Goose meme*
'Who's got a pre-emptive say on what goes into pre-cert?'
'Who's demanding tree counts (or whatever other silly detail that takes six months to compile) as part of pre-cert?'
'Who's using member deference to load up cert'd projects w/other demands?'
-- www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

SNAP runs out of money Nov. 1. States are now figuring out how to feed millions of people As November looms, states are trying to sort what options they can offer beneficiaries to fill the gap in food assistance. Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the impact of this potential lapse in states across the country.

As November looms, states are trying to sort what options they can offer beneficiaries to fill the gap in food assistance. Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the impact of this potential lapse in states across the country.

That delta on immigration probably helps explain why Biden got caught so flat-footed on it. And that delta on crime could use a dissertation: Is this just urban/suburban cleaving? Is it Fox and TikTok? Is it everything at CVS going behind lock-n-key?

Correx: No money in reporting the stories that give the podcasters something to monetize via yakking

How Andrew Cuomo’s Dreams of Becoming a Radio Star Fell Apart

Andrew Cuomo was getting paid $40g(!) a month(!) for his podcast?! -- www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...

Hmm very strange to not build the entire thing on a viaduct have they considered building the entire thing on a viaduct I’ll take your thoughts off the air

off,,,, the rails