Player of the game: Jesse "Villain" Winker.
Make NYC great again.
Long Island City has a more impressive skyline than Toronto.
Yes, indeed.
"Arizona’s secretary of state, Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, warned in a letter to President Trump that the cuts were comparable to shutting down the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ahead of hurricane season." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...
"Our travel system has been underfunded, under-resourced and lacking in bold decisive leadership." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"The researchers also note research that estimates that ride-hailing vehicles travel without riders about 30% to 40% of the time." www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/uber-ly...
That’s the ticket. Show up in court, with your Bar licenses on the line, and answer a judge’s pointed and specific questions on how this deal went down.
"...to remove 1 gigaton of carbon dioxide — just 3% of what humans add every year — these systems would need to process the same amount of air that all the air conditioners in the world currently process in one year." www.aps.org/apsnews/2025...
"The mere threat of new tariffs appears to have led to a significant jump in the cost of many construction materials. ...rising costs and delayed availability will make future projects more expensive." www.constructiondive.com/news/tariff-...
My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred FAA employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Union Square rally.
Having burned through enough 40% off promos w/ Revel, pretty much convinced nothing will give you worse motion sickness than a brake-happy driver in a Model 3.
The great American egg shortage is getting worse.
With bird flu killing millions of egg-laying chickens, prices surged more than 15% in January from a month earlier — the biggest advance since 2015 — and 55% from a year before
BIG FLAKES
The news getting you down? I invite you to stare at this chart of solar and wind deployed capacity in China.
They blew past their ambitious 2030 target... last July.
Imagine if your city did urban transformations like this. The 18th arrondissement of Paris, before and after, 2020 to 2024. Think about how that neighbourhood would feel after this change. How YOUR neighbourhood would feel.
It can be. Just takes vision & leadership.
HT @emmanuelspv.bsky.social
The Ottawa crowd just booed the American national anthem at a hockey game against the Minnesota Wild.
I don’t think that’s ever happened before.
Breaking News: The Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles County, two of the deadliest fires in California history, have reached 100% containment.
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
All I can think about are all of the serendipitous encounters that no longer occur because of everyone treating their phones as a social crutch.
22 total ADUs have begun construction since JC passed its ordinance in November 2023. Typically akes years for laws to translate into construction, so early days yet. About 4 ADUs per month are breaking ground.
When did LinkedIn become Reels for professionals?
STATE OF THE MTA: "When electrical components fail in the substation – a common occurrence, as evidenced by burn marks on the walls – MTA Chief Superintendent Joseph Daidone searches eBay for replacements."
"Among the top 10% of people arrested for violent subway crimes, almost 80% had mental health issues and nearly 90% were categorized at some point as “emotionally disturbed” or homeless, the data showed."
GOTHAMIST: "Half of the violent crimes systemwide occurred at only 30 of the city's 472 stations, according to data from 2023." gothamist.com/news/nyc-sub...
BLOOMBERG: "More than 40% of the roughly 7 million people looking for work have now been searching unsuccessfully for at least 15 weeks."
Riding Metro-North this weekend, I couldn’t help but think about how much housing could be built on these massive surface parking lots.
